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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’   pre ced’ing       pre-em’i nent
pre serve’   pre des’tine      an te pas’chal
pre sage’    an’te past        an te mun’dane
pre text’    an’te date        an te nup’tial
fore warn’   an’ti pode        an ti cli’max
fore’front   an’ti dote        an ti feb’rile

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Spelling – Prefixes – Post

Posted in affix, AFFIXES, Basic Spelling Rules, Education, Elementary Education, English, K-12, K-12 Education, Learn, Learning, List of Spelling Words, McGuffey, Orthography, Practice, Practice Exercises, Primary Education, School, Spell, Spelling, Spelling Books, Spelling Curriculum, Spelling Exercises, Spelling Instruction, Spelling Lists, Spelling Practice, Spelling Resources, Spelling Rules, Spelling Series, Spelling Tests, Spelling Words, Study, Studying, Teach, Teacher, Teachers, Teaching, Teaching Spelling, Word Skills, Word Study, Words, tagged , , , , , on September 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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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Teaching Spelling – Prefixes – Bene

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Bene is a Latin prefix, signifying well.

ben’e dict     ben e fac’tion    be nef’i cence
ben’e fice     ben e fi’cial     be nev’o lence

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Affixes – some ward ure y

Posted in affix, AFFIXES, Education, Elementary Education, K-12, K-12 Education, McGuffey, School, Spelling, Spelling Exercises, Spelling Practice on September 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Some means like or same, full of, or very; ward denotes in the direction
of; ure means state of; and y, full of, or composed of.

tire’some   cum’ber some   vent’ure some
east’ward   heav’en ward   aft’er ward
verd’ure    cur’va ture    im post’ure
smok’y      sin’ew y       sil’ver y

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Affixes – Kin, ling, let, and ule

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Lesson 153.Kin, ling, let, and ule indicate smallness or diminution.

lamb’kin     man’i kin     la’dy kin
duck’ling    un’der ling   fos’ter ling
leaf’let     riv’u let     flag’eo let
glob’ule     mol’e cule    an i mal’cule

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