Lesson Two English Nine Prefix: AD
Can you spell these assimilated adwords correctly? 1> ad + fect = (“do” something “to”) 2> ad + gressive = (“stepping” “to, toward” someone with hostile intent) 3> ad + literation = (“letters” “added to” one another in succession) 4> ad + rogant = (haughty; “claiming” privileges “to” oneself )
Prefixes Prefix can negate a base Give base directional force Intensify a base’s meaning
AD - Latin To, Towards, Add to
Try it! a magazine advertisement (vert = “turn”) • a car’s accelerator pedal (celer = “swift”) • an abbreviated homeroom period (brev = “short”)
Divide and Conquer Words Bases affect apparition annihilate aggression advent aggregate advocate abbreviation Adhere Alleviate brev = short fect = do, make greg = fl ock, herd her = stick, cling lev = lift, light nihil = nothing par = appearance gress = step, go vent = come voc = voice, speak