1. Lesson Two English Nine
Prefix: AD

2. 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 )

3. Prefixes Prefix can negate a base Give base directional force
Intensify a base’s meaning

4. AD -
Latin
To, Towards, Add to

5. Try it! a magazine advertisement (vert = “turn”)
• a car’s accelerator pedal
(celer = “swift”)
• an abbreviated homeroom period
(brev = “short”)

6. 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