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Spears: Developing Critical Reading Skills
Developing Critical Reading Skills, 6/e
Deanne Spears, City College of San Francisco

Greek Prefixes

PrefixMeaningExamples
a-, an-not, withoutamoral, anesthetic, apolitical, asocial, amorphous
anti-againstantipathy, antiwar, antisocial
hyper-overhypertension, hypersensitive, hyperactivity
hypo-underhypotension, hypodermic
meta-beyondmetaphysical
para-falseparamilitary, paralegal
peri-aroundperimeter, periscope
pseudofalsepseudonym, pseudoscience
sym-, syn-together, withsynthesis, symphony, symbol, sympathy
epi-uponepitaph (upon the tomb), epidermis (on the skin), epicenter








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