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Prefixes (maybe some root -outer, external -through,

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throughout uni/ mono
words)
micro/ mini -one
-small proto
-earliest form, first bi/ di/ duo
sub/ sur/ suc/ suf/ sug/ macro -two
sup/ sus/ -large multi/ poly
hyper/ infra -many tri
-underneath, lower, allo/ alter -three
below -other up
-up, increase quad/ tetra
non/ dis/ un/ syn/ sym -four
a/ an/ -union, together self/ auto
il/ ir/ im/ in -oneself quint/ penta
-no, not meso/ mid -five
-middle meta
ob/ of/ op/ oc/ -self-referential hex/ sex
anti/ ant/ peri/ circu -six
counter/ contra -around, about epi
-against, opposing -above hept/ sept
trans/ dia -seven
ultra/ extra/ over/ -through, beyond, down
super/ supra/ hyper/ across -down, reduce oct
mega/ giga/ tera/ maxi -eight
-beyond, above re acro
-again -high nona/ novem
ad/ a/ ac/ af/ ag/ al/ -nine
an/ ap/ at/ as pro quasi
-change, increase, -forward for, -somewhat, deci/ dec
movement to favoring resembling -ten

cor/ con/ com/ col/ co post de cent/ hect


-with, together -after -opposite, off -one hundred

cac/ caco/ mis/ dys/ ante dif milli/ kilo


mal -before, preceding -being other, -one thousand
-bad, wrongly different
inter mega
demi/ semi/ hemi -among pan -1,000,000
-half, partly -all
giga
ex/ ab/ abs pseudo homo -1,000,000,000
-away -false -same
tera
pre/ pro para hetero -1,000,000,000,000
fore -near, beyond -different
-before micro
out cata -small, 10-6
intra/ endo/ en -surpass, away -down, against, back
-inside, within, in nano
per ana -very small, 10-9
extra/ ecto -up, against, back
infi

Suffixes 😊

ance/ ence/
acy/ ate/ ary/ ery/ ise/
ize/ some/ ty/ hood/
ness/ ship/ tude
-state, condition,
(quality, action,
function, nature)

able/ ible
-ability

age
-result

ic/ ical
al/ ory
-relating to

en
-made of, “to noun
and adjective”

dom
-state of being free

ee
-recipient of action

eer
-someone who do
something specific
er/or/ ist/ ant wise fer teg/ tect
-someone who does -in relation to take long
an action, person set trude
ious/ eous act cide
ess cide graph ord
-relating to women istic trans ject
argic voc nym
ful/ ous ory pos/ pon dendro
-full of ean soc part
ast/ aster stat
ify/ fy ile biblio sult
-to make chrome eco
doc acu
ing Root Word (deep dyna poli
-action root) gno spite
kine ret
ism theo logos crypt
-act, practice herb log/ logue zoo
carn narc noct
ite omni necro sol
-associated with a therm path xylo
place, idea, doctrine, junc schem geist
etc. chron tele morph
vis/ vid helio verse
ive aud tropo mor
-tendency, state temp acer/ acri son
dict bene don
less duc/ duct brev surg
-without fort fund enn
script/ scrib gen grat
ly/ y soc hab lect
like/ ish anthrop jur Astro
-like, resembling chron lev Ann
civ photo/ luc/ lum rect
sis dur manu numer
-action, process loc mis/ mit ver
phil omni urb
sion phon pac vit
-state port quit/ qui bell
mort sens sens
tion/ ment vent tim reg
-action, result struct vac pri
lingu null/ nihil rhiz
th geo/ terr fin
-quality, condition bio flex/flect rhod/ eosin/ erythyr
vol flu/ flux
ure pyro nect xanth
-act cryo phon cyan
hydr/ aqu veh/ vect melan
ward/ ways leg/ lig/ lect vert chlor
-direction test neg alb/ leuk
tain purpur
hiero
fect
fac
volve
tech
cover
lysis
sect
tail
sta/sti/sist/stet
merc
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