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We're making a change to the way that we release work for our classes. The main lessons (the things that we'll do in class each day) will now be found at the site "Optimal Beneficial Moreover Detrimental: Classroom." We're keeping this site, with a slightly different name, in order to release a reading a day for students to practice their reading at home. Each post will contain a link to a reading, along with a list of assignments that can be completed for that reading.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

4.3. Structural Analysis of Latinate Words



Perform structural analysis on these words:
Here's a spreadsheet with common prefixes, suffixes, and roots to help you.
Steps:
inscrutable
1. Cut into meaningful chunks: in-  scrut -able
2. Define the suffixes: able - "able to be"
3. Define the prefixes: in - "not"
4. Define the root: "scrut" is like "scrutinize," which means "to look at closely," so I think "scrut" means "look at closely.
5. Look up the word and evaluate your guess. "I got this one exactly right."

Try it with these words:

foretaste

germinate

interminable

interrogate

recompense

renovate

available

homicide

indispensable

transparent

illiterate

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