Un, unexplained. We use the word, unwanted, un, unwanted. Prefixes really change the focus of a word, from for example, legal to illegal or safe to unsafe. Prefixes like 'un' or 'pre' in front of ...

For example, sometimes you drop the letter ‘y’ and add an ‘i’ to the suffix ‘ful’: It’s useful to remember that very few suffixes end in a double ‘l’. For example, the suffix ...

Most of the prefixes are easy to figure out: ECON is Economics, PSYC is Psychological Sciences, and so forth. In the example above, ANTH means the course is offered by the Anthropology Department. The ...