Prefix Family Meaning Bad

The prefixes mal, mis, and pseudo mean ________?

• bad

• super

• better

• classic

Lead someone the wrong way

• misfortune

• misguide

• hypothesis

• malpractice

unable to change to normal social behavior

• maladjusted

• pseudoscience

• misinterpret

• comprehend

beliefs that claim to be scientific but are missing features of real science

• maladjusted

• malfunction

• misquote

• pseudoscience

fail to operate normally

• misguide

• malfunction

• misinterpret

• smoothly

failure to use professional skills causing injury

• misinterpret

• misguide

• malpractice

• ongoing

bad luck; unhappy situation

• misfortune

• education

• pseudoscience

• misquote

to explain or understand wrongly

• maladjusted

• misinterpret

• malfunction

• interpret

not using the exact words someone used in a quotation

• marks

• misquote

• malpractice

• malfunction

to put into action or service in an incorrect way

• consume

• prepared

• misuse

• access