“A” – Vocab-ability Prefixes – A More Powerful Vocabulary (This post includes all prefixes beginning with the letter “A”)

This is the first post in the second “chapter” of the Vocab-ability series. While the first chapter presented the roots that function as “Stems” of current English words, this chapter will present those roots that function as “Prefixes.”   

This post comprises all those prefixes that begin with the letter “A.” It includes many English prefixes whose etymology can be traced to Greek and Latin roots.   

If you learn these prefixes, you will be able understand and use many English words that feature them. Vocab-ability is an easy-to-use resource guide to help you understand those prefixes.    

In total, this Vocab-ability post features 11 prefixes that begin with the letter “A."  

Free Use: 

Please feel free to download the following material, copy it, print it out, and distribute it for any and all educational purposes. If it helps you or your students increase your English vocabulary, it will have served its purpose. And I will know that my efforts have proven beneficial. (Please see my additional comments and notes below the entries.)

Vocab-ability Prefix–257 (a___ = verb prefix)

Vocab-ability Prefix–258 (a___ = toward, at)

Vocab-ability Prefix–259 (ab__, abs___ = from, away)

Vocab-ability Prefix–260 (a__, an___ = not, without)

Vocab-ability Prefix–261 (ad__, ac___, af___ = to, forward)

Vocab-ability Prefix–262 (ambi__, amphi___ = both)

Vocab-ability Prefix–263 (ante__ = before)

Vocab-ability Prefix–264 (anti__ = opposed to, against)

Vocab-ability Prefix–265 (apo___ = from, reverse, off)

Vocab-ability Prefix–266 (arch__ = most important, chief, foremost)

Vocab-ability Prefix–267 (auto__ = self)

Note re Copyright / Free Use:

I hold the copyright to the original Vocab-ability guide, which was published in 2002. I hereby grant free use to all the material contained in this post and all other Vocab-ability posts on Steemit.    

Note re Copying each Screenshot:

Each separate entry (including those in this and other Vocab-ability posts) consists of one screenshot (since making screenshots was the only way I could properly format the individual entries for uploading to Steemit). To use these entries for your personal study or in any classroom, you can download any or all screenshots by clicking and dragging the screenshots that you want to use, and then print them out.   

Note re Intro to Vocab-ability and Guide to Vocab-ability :  

Below are the links to the Introduction and the Guide to the Vocab-ability series:

Vocab-ability – Introduction to “Vocab-ability”.

Vocab-ability – Guide to Entries.

Note re Distinguishing between Different Chapters:

As this Vocab-ability series progresses, there will be some overlap of the various alphabetical groupings

(i.e., an "A" post in the first chapter of “Stems” , and now another "A" post in this chapter of “Prefixes”).

However, you can easily distinguish between those posts containing “Stems” and those containing “Prefixes.”  As you may notice, the text boxes in the different groups have different borders.  

The first “Stems” group has boxes with GRAY borders …

This “Prefixes” group has boxes with TAN borders …

(Hope this distinction helps.)