English Language SPaG – Prefixes Practice Questions Set 02

What does the prefix de- most commonly mean?

Which word means “to remove frost”?

In the word enable, the prefix en- means:

Which word uses em- instead of en- correctly?

What does the prefix pseudo- mean?

Which word means “false name”?

The prefix counter- means:

Which word means “an argument against another argument”?

What does the prefix hyper- mean?

Which word means “excessively sensitive”?

The prefix hypo- means:

Which word means “abnormally low blood sugar”?

The prefix contra- means:

Which word means “to say the opposite of”?

The prefix infra- means:

Which prefix means “beyond”?

The prefix macro- means:

Which prefix means “small”?

The prefix neo- means:

Which word means “new colonialism”?

The prefix pan- means:

Which word means “involving all religions”?

The prefix poly- means:

Which word means “many marriages”?

The prefix sub- can mean:

Which word means “a lower group within a culture”?

The prefix infra- is closest in meaning to:

Which prefix means “hidden or not obvious”?

The prefix dys- means:

Which word means “difficulty in reading”?

The prefix counter- is closest in meaning to:

The prefix hypo- is the opposite of:

Which word means “false belief”?

The prefix retro- means:

Which word means “looking back”?

The prefix circum- means:

Which word means “to go around a problem”?

The prefix para- can mean:

Which word means “outside normal scientific explanation”?

The prefix meta- means:

Which word means “a discussion about discussion”?

The prefix proto- means:

Which word means “the original example”?

The prefix inter- is different from intra- because:

Which word means “within one organisation”?

The prefix ultra- suggests:

Which word means “extreme nationalism”?

The prefix micro- is the opposite of:

Which word means “small-scale management”?

Which prefix best completes the word ___historical meaning not real history?