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Prefixes, Combining Forms and Suffixes
Question | Answer |
---|---|
Ab- | Away from |
Ad- | Toward |
A-, An- | No, Not, without |
Ana- | Up |
Ante- | Before, forward |
Anti- | Against |
aut-, Auto- | self, own |
Bi- | two |
Brady- | Slow |
cata- | down |
con- | with, together |
contra- | against, opposite |
De- | down, back of |
Dia- | Complete through |
Dys- | bad, painful, difficult |
Ec-, ecto- | out, outside |
End-, endo- | within |
En- | in |
epi- | above, upon |
Eu- | Good, normal |
Ex- | out, away from |
Exo- | outside, outward |
Hemi- | Half |
Hyper- | Excessive, above, more |
Hypo- | Below, deficient, under, less |
In- | Not, within, into |
Infra- | beneath |
Inter- | between |
Intra- | within, into |
Macro- | large |
Mal- | bad |
Meta- | beyond, change |
Micro- | small |
Neo- | New |
Pan- | all |
Para- | Abnormal, beside, near |
Per- | Through |
Peri- | around |
Poly- | many, much |
post- | After, behind |
pre- | before, in front of |
Pro- | after, forward |
Psuedo- | false |
Re- | back, backward, again |
Retro- | behind, backwards |
Sub- | Under, below |
Supra- | Above, upper |
Sym-, Syn- | together, with |
trachy- | fast |
Transe- | Across, through |
Ultra- | beyond, excel |
Uni- | One |