Exercise

(a) Give examples showing the use and meaning of the following prefixes :-

super-, trans-, con-, sub-, auto-, mis-, ante-, post-, vice-, extra-, pre-, arch-.

(b) Give examples of adjectives formed from nouns by the addition of the suffixes -en, -

ish, -less, and explain the meaning of the suffixes.

(c) Show by the use of suffixes that we can use a single word to express the meaning of

each of the following groups of words:-

A little river, the state of being a child, to make fat, that which cannot be read, unfit to be

chosen.

(d) Give the meanings of the prefixes and suffixes in the following words:-

Incredible, antidote, anarchy, misconduct, monarch, sympathy, manhood, hillock,

archbishop, amiss, bicycle, dismantle, freshen.

(e) Form Adjectives from the following nouns:-

Circumstance, habit, stone, miser, irony, labour, circuit.

(f) Form Verbs from:-

Friend, bath, fertile, grass, clean, sweet, critic.

(g) Form Nouns from:-

Sustain, attain, confess, attach, fortify, oblige, give, cruel, hate, govern, sweet.

(h) Form Adjectives from:-

Muscle, hazard, worth, quarrel, admire, thirst, god.

(i) Add to each of the following words a prefix which reverses the meaning:-

Fortune, legible, visible, agreeable, ever, fortunate, practicable, honour, patience, sense,

truth, resolute, legal, capable, organize, credible, creditable.

(j) What is the force or meaning of the (1) Prefixes: in-, bene-, post-, dys-, dis-, (2)

Suffixes;-en, -fy, -ness, -isk, -ing IName the language from which each is derived.

(k) Mention two prefixes which denote (1) reversal of an action; (2) something good; (3)

something bad; (4) a negative.

(l) Name the primary derivatives of the following words:-

Hale, glass, high, sit, dig, strong, deep.

(m) By means of a suffix turn each of the following words into an abstract noun:-

Grand, discreet, supreme, rival, certain, warm, desolate, dense.

240. A Root is the simple element common to words of the same origin.