Category: Mechanics
Use this Prefixes Worksheet to practice forming new words with appropriate prefixes that improve the mechanics of your writing. These exercises require you to add a prefix and define the new word created by the addition.
Instructions
For each of the exercises below, use the word given to form a new word by adding a prefix. Write the meaning of the word you form below it.
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Original word: read
- New word formed with a prefix:
- Meaning of new word:
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Original word: start
- New word formed with a prefix:
- Meaning of new word:
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Original word: meaning
- New word formed with a prefix:
- Meaning of new word:
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Original word: understood
- New word formed with a prefix:
- Meaning of new word:
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Original word: possible
- New word formed with a prefix:
- Meaning of new word:
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Original word: belief
- New word formed with a prefix:
- Meaning of new word:
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Original word: fill
- New word formed with a prefix:
- Meaning of new word:
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Original word: emotion
- New word formed with a prefix:
- Meaning of new word:
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Original word: inform
- New word formed with a prefix:
- Meaning of new word:
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Original word: weekly
- New word formed with a prefix:
- Meaning of new word: