2 Prefixes: creating new meanings

Question 1

abdicate

Answer 1

If a king or queen abdicates, he or she makes a formal statement that he or she no longer wants to be king or queen

Question 2

abduct

Answer 2

to force someone to go somewhere with you, often using threats or violence

Question 3

ablaze

Answer 3

burning very strongly

Question 4

Abscond

Answer 4

to go away suddenly and secretly in order to escape from somewhere:

Question 5

Adjacent to

Answer 5

very near, next to, or touching

Question 6

Adrift

Answer 6

If a boat is adrift, it is moving on the water but is not controlled by anyone because of a problem

Question 7

Afloat

Answer 7

floating on water

Question 8

annotate

Answer 8

to add a short explanation or opinion to a text or drawing

Question 9

Commiserate

Answer 9

to express sympathy to someone about some bad luck

Question 10

Condolence

Answer 10

sympathy and sadness for the family or close friends of a person who has recently died, or an expression of this, especially in written form

Question 11

Congeal

Answer 11

to change from a liquid or soft state to a thick or solid state

Question 12

Contaminate

Answer 12

to make something less pure or make it poisonous

Question 13

Converse

Answer 13

the opposite

to have a conversation with someone

Question 14

Cross-border

Answer 14

between different countries, or involving people from different countries

Question 15

Cross-cultural

Answer 15

involving two or more different cultures and their ideas and customs

Question 16

Eject

Answer 16

to force someone to leave a particular place

Question 17

Emit

Answer 17

to send out a beam, noise, smell, or gas

Question 18

Extracurricular

Answer 18

An extracurricular activity or subject is not part of the usual school or college course

Question 19

Extraneous

Answer 19

not directly connected with or related to something

Question 20

Extraterrestrial

Answer 20

in or coming from a place outside the planet Earth

Question 21

Interdepartmental

Answer 21

between or involving different departments of a school, university, business, etc.

Question 22

Interrelated

Answer 22

connected in such a way that each thing has an effect on or depends on the other

Question 23

Intradepartmental

Answer 23

being or occurring within a department

Question 24

Intranet

Answer 24

a system of connected computers that works like the internet and allows people within an organization to communicate with each other and share information

Question 25

Intravenous

Answer 25

into or connected to a vein

Question 26

Overbearing

Answer 26

too confident and too determined to tell other people what to do, in a way that is unpleasant

Question 27

Overboard

Answer 27

over the side of a boat or ship and into the water

Question 28

Overleaf

Answer 28

on the other side of the page

Question 29

Overnight

Answer 29

for or during the night

Question 30

Overpriced

Answer 30

too expensive

Question 31

overrated

Answer 31

If something or someone is overrated, that person or thing is considered to be better or more important than they really are

Question 32

Overshadow (by)

Answer 32

to cause someone or something to seem less important or less happy

Question 33

Overstate

Answer 33

to describe or explain something in a way that makes it seem more important or serious than it really is

Question 34

Overstep

Answer 34

to go further than what is considered acceptable or correct

Question 35

Overwrite

Answer 35

to write something in a way that is not clear and simple or is more detailed than it needs to be

Question 36

Procrastinate

Answer 36

to keep delaying something that must be done, often because it is unpleasant or boring

Question 37

Procreate

Answer 37

to produce young

to reproduce sexually

Question 38

Proliferate

Answer 38

to increase a lot and suddenly in number

Question 39

Promote

Answer 39

to encourage people to like, buy, use, do, or support something
to raise someone to a higher or more important position or rank

Question 40

Undercarriage

Answer 40

the set of wheels and other parts that support a plane when it is on the ground and make it possible to take off and land

Question 41

Underestimate

Answer 41

to fail to guess or understand the real cost, size, difficulty, etc. of something

Question 42

Underfoot

Answer 42

under your feet as you walk; on the ground

Question 43

Underfunded

Answer 43

receiving less money than is needed to continue or to work effectively

Question 44

Underhand

Answer 44

done secretly, and sometimes dishonestly, in order to achieve an advantage

Question 45

Underlying

Answer 45

real but not immediately obvious

Question 46

Undermine

Answer 46

to make someone less confident, less powerful, or less likely to succeed, or to make something weaker, often gradually

Question 47

Understaffed

Answer 47

having fewer workers or employees than necessary

Question 48

Upgrade

Answer 48

to improve the quality or usefulness of something, or change it for something newer or of a better standard

Question 49

Upturn

Answer 49

an improvement or a change to a higher level or value