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Using Prefixes for Spelling Help Study Guide
Using Prefixes for Spelling Help Practice Exercises
Practice
In each of the following sentences, choose the word that uses the correct prefix.
| 1. | Andrew was unheartened / disheartened to learn that he was rejected from his first-choice college. |
| 2. | They were reading about the antebellum / antibellum period in the South, the time before the start of the Civil War. |
| 3. | The meteorologist called for intermittent / intramittent rain showers. |
| 4. | Ever since Mrs. Smith gave birth to her quintuplets / sextuplets, people have been giving her five sets of every gift! |
| 5. | They were able to see the play during the review / preview period, two weeks before it opened. |
| 6. | Casey and Carolyn wanted to play on the same intermural / intramural team, but their gym teacher separated them. |
| 7. | Brady wished he could make more friends, but he was just a natural introvert / intervert. |
| 8. | He felt constant pain in his arm after hypoextending / hyperextending his elbow. |
| 9. | The pretest / protest was difficult for all the students in the class because they hadn't yet learned algebra. |
| 10. | She needed to find another word with the same meaning as important, so she opened her thesaurus and looked for synonyms / antonyms. |
Answers
| 1. | Andrew was disheartened to learn that he was rejected from his first-choice college. |
| 2. | They were reading about the antebellum period in the South, the time before the start of the Civil War. |
| 3. | The meteorologist called for intermittent rain showers. |
| 4. | Ever since Mrs. Smith gave birth to her quintuplets, people have been giving her five sets of every gift! |
| 5. | They were able to see the play during the preview period, two weeks before it opened. |
| 6. | Casey and Carolyn wanted to play on the same intramural team, but their gym teacher separated them. |
| 7. | Brady wished he could make more friends, but he was just a natural introvert. |
| 8. | He felt constant pain in his arm after hyperextending his elbow |
| 9. | The pretest was difficult for all the students in the class because they hadn't yet learned algebra. |
| 10. | She needed to find another word with the same meaning as important, so she opened her thesaurus and looked for synonyms. |
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