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Prefixes are added to the beginning of an existing word to create a new word with a different
meaning. For example:
word prefix new word
un-
happy unhappy
multi-
cultural multicultural
over-
work overwork
cyber-
space cyberspace
super-
market supermarket
Suffixes
A suffix is a group of letters placed after the root of a word. For example, the word flavourless
consists of the root word “flavour” combined with the suffix “-less” *which means “without”+;
the word “flavourless” means “having no flavour.”
A short list of suffixes:
