Language Arts Grade Six

Unit Fourteen, Lesson Three: Prefixes

  1. screw
  2. stew
  3. threw
  4. slice
  5. twice
  6. price
  7. vitamin
  8. calorie
  9. protein
  10. carbohydrate
  1. lipids
  2. fatty
  3. acid
  4. energy
  5. acorn
  6. larvae
  7. bison
  8. diet
  9. consume
  10. poisonous
Prefixes: poly

The prefix poly- means many or much. Here are some words beginning with the prefix poly-. 


	polygon			polygraph		polymer

	polyp			polyurethane		polypeptide
Here are the meanings of some of these words: 

	polygon - figure with many sides

	polypeptide - made of many peptides

	polymer - made of many parts

	polyurethane - polymer containing a urethane radical

	polygraph - records many things at once
The word paragraph comes from two Greek words which mean "to write beside". Greek writers used to put a little symbol next places in a long text where they were beginning to write about a new subject.

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