Language Arts Grade Five

Unit Seventeen, Lesson Three: Prefixes: Mis and Mal

  1. credit
  2. canyon
  3. crack
  4. creek
  5. critters
  6. formation
  7. identity
  8. metamorphic
  9. sediment
  10. igneous
  1. quartz
  2. granite
  3. pumice
  4. calcite
  5. mica
  6. codes
  7. regulations
  8. government
  9. tribal
  10. reservation
Prefixes: Mis and Mal

Here are some words which begin with the mal- prefix: 


	malady			malice			malaria

	malfunction		maladjusted		malodor

	malnutrition		malpractice		maladaptive
The prefix mal- means bad or wrong or incorrect or poor.

Here are some of the meanings for words beginning with the mal- prefix. 


	malfunction - to function incorrectly

	malodor - a bad odor

	malnutrition - poor nutrition

	malpractice - incorrectly practice

	maladaptive - poorly adaptive

	maladjusted - poorly adjusted

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