Prefixes, Suffixes, and Word Roots

... suffixes, and word roots can dramatically improve your ability to deter- mine the meaning of unfamiliar vocabulary words. The following tables list common prefixes, suffixes, and word roots; their ... Greek words that are used to create various English words. The Greek words serve as roots, providing the core mean- ing of the words; prefixes, suffixes, and other alterations give each...

Ngày tải lên: 02/11/2013, 17:20

... Alb dore hand, Hitt kesar, Toch A tsar : hand chiragra chiromancy cheirology -chiria or -cheiria n combining form - NL, fr. Gk -cheiria, fr. cheir hand  more at - : -handedness ... adjectives and adverbs of one syllable hotter drier later sooner colder and of certain adjectives and adverbs of two syllables abler completer gentlier hap- pier yellower a...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 15:13

... tứ kép. Ex: bad – TEMpered, old – FASHioned * Nhấn phần thứ 2 khi gặp động tứ kép. Ex; to underSTAND, to introDUCE, to overFLOW @ CÁCH PHÁT ÂN TỪ TẬN CÙNG ED VÀ S/ES 6. VOICELESS (YẾU) --- VOICED ... presents c. papers d. picks 6. a. tasks b. entertains c. conveys d. ideas 7.a. sleeps b. sets c. words d. wakes 8.a. does b. lives c. plays d. makes 9.a. thoughts b. listens c. feels d. hears 10....

Ngày tải lên: 25/08/2013, 09:10

... the list of words to the right. So we’ll start with an empty grid and select random words from the list, random posi- tions, and random directions. Then, we’ll try to insert the word. If it ... Scrabble, and paper games, such as crosswords and word searches. These games work well as computer games and as web-based games. This chapter looks at two traditional games: hangman and...

Ngày tải lên: 29/09/2013, 20:20

... store of word roots in your vocabulary and a greater ability to break down unfamiliar words and use their roots to deter- mine meaning. Keep reviewing common word roots as well as prefixes and suffixes ... make sure you review the list carefully and study any roots that are unfamiliar to you. GREEK WORD ROOTS 85 COMMON GREEK WORD ROOTS anthro, andro: man, human androi...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 17:20

... of unfamiliar words and the better you will understand words you already know. This chapter reviews common Latin word roots. Before you begin learning and reviewing Latin word roots, take a few ... understanding of the words you already know. GLOSSARY ETYMOLOGY the history of a word, the study of its origin and development On occasion, Latin and Greek roots are themselves wor...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 17:20

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 12:20

... are groups of letters placed before words or roots. Prefixes modify or extend the meanings of words and roots. Following is a list of commonly used prefixes and sample vocabulary. P INDEX: A ... Program Vocabulary Workshop Prefixes refixes and suffixes were originally words themselves but they are now groups of letters added to words or to roots to create new words. Prefixes [pr...

Ngày tải lên: 28/11/2013, 18:11

... (Ruben- stein and Goodenough, 1965; Miller and Charles, 1991), and human judgments have previously been used successfully to study synonymy and near- synonymy (Miller and Charles, 1991; Bybee and Eddington, ... Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th IJCNLP of the AFNLP, pages 10–18, Suntec, Singapore, 2-7 August 2009. c 2009 ACL and AFNLP Investigations on Word Senses and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 00:20

... most frequent preceding and following words of a token word. List P rev containing the most frequent (top 200) previous words (w i−1 or w i−2 if w i is the first word of a NE) and List N ext contains ... context words. For all the context words, its N weight is calculated as the ratio between the occurrence of the word as a context word and its total number of occurrence in the c...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 01:20