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Don't Panic When Seeing New Words: 3 Steps to Guess Meanings by Breaking Down Prefixes and Suffixes
Many intimidatingly long words are actually made up of small building blocks. Once you learn to break a word down into three parts—prefix, root, and suffix—you can guess its general meaning without looking it up in the dictionary. This is the first article in our "Learning Vocabulary by Breaking Down Words" series, guiding you through 3 steps to unlock a whole host of new vocabulary.
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