Language Arts Grade Five

Unit Fifteen, Lesson Four: Prefixes: Tele and Retro

  1. worm
  2. ferment
  3. firm
  4. swarm
  5. storm
  6. border
  7. boundary
  8. outside
  9. entrance
  10. clarify
  1. happened
  2. language
  3. beautiful
  4. understand
  5. complete
  6. classify
  7. group
  8. category
  9. similar
  10. identify
Prefixes: Tele and Retro

It's easy to think of several words which have the tele- prefix: 


	telephone		telegraph		television

	teletype		telecast		telecommunication

	telescope		telegram		telepathy
The tele- prefix has the meaning distant, over, or from. If you think about it most of these words have to do with seeing or hearing something over a long distance.

Here are some of these words and their meanings: 


	telephone --> a device which sends and receives messages
		      which can be heard over long distances.

	television --> a device which receives audio-visual programs
		       over long distances.

	telescope --> a device which allows the viewer to see
		      objects which are a long ways away as if
		      they were up close.

	telecommunication --> communication which takes place over
			      great distances.

	telegraph --> a divice which sends written messages over
		      great distances.

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