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How Prefixes Change a Word's Meaning
Understand that adding a prefix to a known word creates a new word with a new meaning.
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Context Clues and Prefixes: Figuring Out Unknown Words
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Use sentence-level context clues and common prefixes (un-, re-, pre-, dis-) to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words.
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