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Teaching Spelling – Prefixes – FORE PRE ANTI

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Affixes – Prefixes
Lesson 160.
Fore adds its own meaning to the word; as foretaste, to taste before; pre is from the Latin prae, before; ante (Latin), before. Anti (Greek), means against or opposite.
fore’sight   fore tell’er      fore bod’ing ly
fore’most    fore knowl’edge   fore de ter’mine
fore know’   fore’cas tle      pre med’i tate
pre fix’     pre cau’tion      pre oc’cu py
pre judge’   [...]

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Spelling – Prefixes – Post

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Affixes – Prefixes
Lesson 159.
Post is a Latin word, meaning after.
post’script    post-di lu’vi an    post me rid’i an
post’-date     post po si’tion     post’hu mous ly
Other words are formed by prefixing the English word post, a letter-carrier.
post’al         post’man      post’mark
post’-chaise    post’-town    post’-office
post-haste’     post’boy      post’mas ter

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Spelling – Prefixes – AFTER

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The prefix after conveys its own meaning.
aft’er piece    aft’er noon    aft’er most
aft’er guard    aft’er math    aft’er-thought

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Teaching Spelling – Prefixes – DIS

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Prefixes
Lesson 158.
Dis is a Latin particle, and has the force of a negative or privative; as,
disagree, not to agree, disarm, to deprive of arms.
dis please’   dis ap pear’    dis con tin’ue
dis joint’    dis be lieve’   dis in her’it
dis lodge’    dis o blige’    dis or’gan ize
dis charge’   dis cour’age    dis sim’i lar
dis grace’    dis cov’er      dis [...]

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Teaching Spelling – Prefixes – IN IM IR OR IG

Posted in Definition, Definitions, Education, Elementary Education, K-12, K-12 Education, Learn, Learning, McGuffey, Prefixes, Spell, Spelling, Spelling Exercises, Spelling Words, Teach, Teacher, Teachers, Teaching Spelling, Teaching Word Skills on September 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Lesson 157.
In, also, has a negative meaning; it often becomes im, il, ir, or ig, for
the sake of sound.
in act’ive   in sin cere’   ir res’o lute
im prop’er   im po lite’    ir re lig’ious
il le’gal    il lu’sive     irre spect’ive
ig no’ble    ig’no rant     ir’ri ta ble

im ma te ri al’i ty         im prac ti ca bil’i ty
in [...]

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