Roots and Affixes Need to Know

What is a prefix? 

• Word part in the middle
• word part at the end
• root word
• word part at the beginning

Fill in the blank: 
My mom wanted milk without fat. 
She wanted ___fat milk. 

• non-
• pre-
• re-
• un- 

Fill in the blank: 
Dinosaurs existed at the beginning of time. 
These times were called ___historic. 

• non-
• pre-
• un-
• re-

Which is the root word for the word unwrap?

• wrap

• un

• nwrap

• rap

Which is the root word for the word deepest?

• dee

• est

• deep

• deepe

If antifreeze is used in cars to prevent freezing in very cold temperatures, what does the prefix anti mean?

• freezing something

• going against freezing

• warming things up

The recipe calls to defrost chicken before cooking it. What does defrost mean?

• to take the cold away

• to cook it

• to eat it

• to freeze it

The doctor returned to check on his patient. The prefix re in the word returned means:

• away

• again

• aging

• not

A prefix goes _________of a word.

• at the end
• at the beginning
• in the middle

A suffix goes _______of a word.

• at the beginning
• in the middle
• at the end