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Stems and Affixes-Unit 5
Study and practice the stems and affixes in Unit 5
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Undergraduate 1
06/24/2009

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Term

a-

an-

Definition

without, lacking, not

 

Examples:  atypical, apolitical

Term
bene-
Definition

good

 

Examples:  benefit, benefactor

Term
bi-
Definition

two

 

Examples:  bicycle, binary

Term
mis-
Definition

wrong

 

Examples:  misspell, mistake

Term
mono-
Definition

one, alone

 

Examples:  monarch, monopoly

Term
poly-
Definition

many

 

Examples:  polynomial, polytechnic

Term

syn-

sym-

syl-

Definition

with, together

 

Examples:  symphony, sympathy

Term

-anthro-

-anthropo-

Definition

human

 

Example:  anthropology

Term
-arch-
Definition

first, chief, leader

 

Examples:  patriarch, monarch, archbishop

Term

-fact-

-fect-

Definition

make, do

 

Examples:  affect, benefactor, factory

Term
-gam-
Definition

marriage

 

Examples:  monogamy, polygamous

Term
-hetero-
Definition

different, other

 

Examples:  heterosexual, heterogeneous

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-homo-
Definition

same

 

Examples:  homogenized milk

Term

-man-

-manu-

Definition

hand

 

Examples: manually, manage

Term
-morph-
Definition

form, structure

 

Examples:  polymorphous

Term

-onym-

-nomen-

Definition

name

 

Examples:  synonym, nomenclature

Term
-pathy-
Definition

feeling

Examples:  sympathy, telepathy, pathological

Term

-theo-

-the-

Definition

god

 

Examples:  theology, polytheism

Term

-ic

-al

Definition

relating to, having the nature of

 

Examples:  comic, musical

Term
-ism
Definition

action or practice, theory or doctrine, believ

 

Examples:  Buddhism, communism

Term
-oid
Definition

like, resembling

 

Examples:  humanoid

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