Improving Communication Unit 1 Vocabulary

Vocabulary flashcards covering word structure, morphemes, affixes, parts of speech, and analogies based on Unit 1.

Twenty Questions categories

The three standard categories on which the game Twenty Questions is based: animal, vegetable, and mineral.

Analogy

A statement of comparison showing a corresponding relationship between word pairs, such as "Cheese is to milk as salad is to lettuce".

Suffix -tion

A suffix added to the end of a word root to form nouns.

Morphology of "information"

The structural composition of the word "information", consisting of a root, a suffix, and a prefix.

Free morpheme

A meaningful linguistic unit that can stand alone as an independent word, such as "run".

Affix

A word element added to a root word that alters its meaning.

Ending 's

An inflection added to the end of a word to indicate grammatical relationships such as possession.

Participle

A verb form that functions in participle tense constructions or as an adjective, such as "eating".

Prefix

An element attached to the beginning of a root word that can consist of more than one syllable.