8th Grade Unit 7 Affixes

A root word

• a syllable added to the beginning of a word

• a syllable added to the end of a word

• a basic word to which affixes are added

• where the word comes from

A suffix goes

• before the word
• after the word
• in the middle of the word

A prefix goes

• before the word
• after the word
• in the middle of the word

The root spec, spect means

• to watch, to look

• to bring, to take

• in, into

• to put, to place

The suffix -al has these possible meanings (click all those that apply).

• having characteristics of

• to pull

• a process or action

• state of being

What is the meaning of the root "tract?"

• draw/pull

• face

• make/made

• life

spectator

• someone who watches an event

• possibility; future outcome

• to look closely at

• amazing; impressive

introspective

• to think about your own thoughts and feelings

• possibility; future outcome

• amazing; impressive

• to form a theory about something; to guess

If "con" means "attentive," and "spic" means "look," then "conspicuous" means

• individual item or part of a class

• looking back on the past

• to doubt or mistrust

• Easily seen or comprehended

to make one suspect to look at secretly

• spectrum

• specimen

• retrospective

• suspicious