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Example sentences for: prefix

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Such a perplexing word might be called a contronym, using the prefix contra- (from the Latin contra meaning against), or possibly a contradictonym.
One of the oldest, tidiest and least ambiguous methods of verbification is to take a noun and put it to work, either by adding a prefix or suffix as in simplify in the paragraph above, or by merely activating an unadorned and unaffixed substantive, as in streamline .
Prequel takes the word sequel (Latin sequela meaning what follows), breaks it into se- and -quel , and then combines -quel with the prefix pre-.
Krämer was a small-scale merchant, the prefix Mandel - usually indicated a trader in almonds, and Bernstein is the German word for `amber,' a semiprecious stone traded along routes which stretched from the Middle East up through Ukraine, Poland, and Lithuania.
We think of subterfuge and skulduggery to explain submulgery; coaxed by ensqualm, we recall ensnare, qualm, and squall; for bifaulgulate, ungulate and a host of words beginning with the prefix bi- come to mind.