PREFIXES
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Prefix
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Area of Meaning
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Examples
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Ante‐
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Before
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Anti‐
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Again, Opposite
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Arch‐
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main
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Auto‐
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Self
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Bi‐
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Two, twice
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Circum‐
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Around
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Con‐,Co‐,Col‐,Com‐
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With, together
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Counter‐
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In opposition to
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De‐
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Down , reversing
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Dis‐
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Negative
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Ex‐,e‐
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Out , from
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Hyper‐
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Extremely
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Hypo‐
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Fixing agent, fitted with
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Inter‐
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Between , among
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Macro‐
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Large
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Mega‐
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Large
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Mini‐
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Small
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Micro‐
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Small
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Mis‐
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Wrong , unfavourable
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Mono‐
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One,
alone
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Multi‐
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Many
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Non‐
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No, not
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Out‐
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Away
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Over‐
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Above , at top positon
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Pan‐
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All, world wide
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Post‐
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Behind, after
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Pre‐,Prim‐
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First, before
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Pro‐
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For,
before, on the side of
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Re‐
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Again, back
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Semi‐
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Half
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Sub‐,Sup‐
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Under
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Super‐
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Extremely
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Trans‐
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Across
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Tri‐
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Three
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Uni‐
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One,
single
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Un‐, im‐, in‐, ir‐
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No, not, negative
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Ultra‐
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Beyond, excessive
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Under‐
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Below , beneath
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