Modern and Classical English Essays

Modern and Classical English Essays
Midterm exam---prefix & suffix


True Nobility
1. Regulate
Reg: rule
2. Extravagance
Extra: beyond
vaga: wander
3. Repentance
Re: again/back
4. Superior
Super: above
5. Previous
Pre: above


Nobel Prize
1. Exist
Ex: out/ forth
ist: to stand
2. Assist
As: to/ towards
3. Persist
Per: through
4. Consist
Con: together
5. Verity
Ver: true
6. Verisimilar
simil: like
7. Decline
De: down
clin: to bend
8. Disincline
Dis: not
9. Privilege
Privy: private
leg: law
10. Allege
Al: to/ towards


Books and Reading
1. Precaution
Pre: before
2. Prescribe
scribe: write
3. Subscribe
Sub: under
4. Transcribe
Trans: across
5. Transport
port: carry
6. Submarine
marine: sea
7. Preferable
fer: to bear/ carry
8. Sustainable
Sus: under
tain: hold


This I Believe
1. Perseverance
Per: thoroughly
severe: strict
2. Immensely
Im: not
mense: to measure
3. Preoccupation
Pre: before
oc: at
cupy: to take
4. Enterprise
Enter: among
pris: to seize
5. Catastrophe
Cata: down
strophe: turning