Directional prefixes (at, ad, de, dis,
con,ex, pre, pro, sub, in)
Negative prefixes (Un, in, im, il,
non)
Intensifying prefixes
At, ad= to, toward, add to (advance)
De= down, off (depart)
Dis= apart, in different directions
Con= with, together
Ex= out of (Ex. Exit sign)
Pro= forward, ahead
Re= back, again (redo an assignment)
Sub= under, below (submarien)
In= in, into
Meaning
Word
noun
1. Nautical . a vertical
blade at the stern of a
vessel that can be turned
horizontally to change
the vessel's direction
when in motion.
2. Aeronautics . a
movable control surface
attached to a vertical
stabilizer, located at the
rear of an airplane and
used, along with the
ailerons, to turn the
airplane.
3. any means of or device
for governing, directing,
or guiding a course, as a
leader or principle: Ex:
His ideas provided a
rudder for the new
company.
Rudder
Ship Rudder
Meaning
Plane Rudder
Meaning
verb
1. to climb or move
quickly using one's
hands and feet, as
down a rough incline.
2. to compete or
struggle with others
for possession or gain:
The children
scrambled for the
coins we tossed.
3. to move hastily and
with urgency: She
scrambled into her
coat and ran out the
door.
4. Military . (of pilots
or aircraft) to take off
as quickly as possible
to intercept enemy
planes.
Word
Scramble
Meaning
Adjective
Scrambled eggs
Meaning
Noun
1.a color having a
soft, subdued
shade.
2. a kind of dried
paste made of
pigments ground
with chalk and
compounded with
gum water.
3. a chalklike crayon
made from such
paste.
4. the art of drawing
with such crayons.
5. a drawing so
made.
Word
pastel
Meaning
Adjective
6. having a soft,
subdued shade.
8. drawn with pastels:
a pastel portrait.
Meaning
Noun
1.a tract of wet, spongy land,
often having a growth of
certain types of trees and other
vegetation, but unfit for
cultivation.
verb
Word
swamp
Meaning
Verb
. to flood or drench with
water or the like.
3. Nautical . to sink or fill
(a boat) with water.
4. to plunge or cause to
sink in or as if in a swamp.
5. to overwhelm,
especially to overwhelm
with an excess of
something: He swamped
us with work.
8. to trim (felled trees)
into logs, as at a logging
camp or sawmill.
Meaning
flee
verb,
fled, flee·ing.
1. to run away, as
from danger or
pursuers; take flight.
2. to move swiftly;
fly; speed.
Verb
3. to run away from
(a place, person,
etc.).
Word
flee
Meaning
Synonym:
Evade, escape, avoid
Meaning
Adjective
1. gentle or temperate in
feeling or behavior
toward others.
2. characterized by or
showing such gentleness,
as manners or speech: a
mild voice.
3. not cold, severe, or
extreme, as air or
weather: mild breezes.
4. not sharp, pungent, or
strong: a mild flavor.
5. not acute or serious, as
disease: a mild case of
flu.
Word
Meaning
mild
Synonyms
1. soft, pleasant,
gentle. 3. temperate,
moderate, clement. 4.
bland.
Antonyms
1. forceful. 3. severe.
6. harsh.
Meaning
Noun
a small, hard seed,
especially the seed of a
food plant such as wheat,
corn, rye, oats, rice, or
millet.
2. the gathered seed of
food plants, especially of
cereal plants.
3. such plants collectively.
4. any small, hard particle,
as of sand, gold, pepper, or
gunpowder.
5. the smallest unit of
weight in most systems,
(one grain equals 0.0648
gram).
Word
grain
Meaning
Verb
6.to form into grains;
granulate.
7. to give a granular
appearance to.
8. to paint in imitation
of the grain of wood,
stone, etc.: metal doors
grained to resemble
oak.
9. to feed grain to (an
animal).
Meaning
Verb
1. to tranquilize or
calm, as a person or
the feelings; relieve,
comfort, or refresh:
soothing someone's
anger; to soothe
someone with a hot
drink.
2. to mitigate,
assuage, or allay, as
pain, sorrow, or doubt:
to soothe sunburned
skin.
verb
3. to exert a
soothing influence;
bring tranquillity,
calm, ease, or
comfort.
Word
Meaning
Soothe
Synonyms:
1. comfort, allay.
2. alleviate, appease.
Soothingadjective
Antonyms
1. upset, roil.
Meaning
adjective
1. being without
moisture; extremely
dry; parched: arid
land; an arid
climate.
2. barren or
unproductive
because of lack of
moisture: arid
farmland.
3. lacking interest or
imaginativeness;
sterile; jejune: an
arid treatment of an
exciting topic.
Word
arid
Meaning
Synonyms
1. dry. 3. tedious,
dreary, uninspired,
uninspiring.
Meaning
Word
Breeze
noun
1. a wind or current of
air, especially a light or
moderate one.
2. a wind of 4–31
miles per hour (2–14
m/sec).
3. Informal. an easy
task; something done
or carried on without
difficulty: Finding
He breezed through
people to join in the
the task.
adventure was a
breeze.
The car breezed
along the highway
Meaning
verb
(5. (of the wind) to
blow a breeze (usually
used impersonally
with it as subject): It
breezed from the west
all day.
6. to move in a selfconfident or jaunty
manner: She breezed
up to the police officer
and asked for
directions.
7. Informal. to
proceed quickly and
easily; move rapidly
without intense effort
(often followed by
along, into, or
through ):
Meaning
noun
1. Also, har·vest·ing.
the gathering of crops.
2. the season when
ripened crops are
gathered.
3. a crop or yield of
one growing season.
4. a supply of anything
gathered at maturity
and stored: a harvest
of wheat.
5. the result or
consequence of any
act, process, or event:
The journey yielded a
harvest of wonderful
memories.
Word
Harvest
Meaning
verb
6. to gather (a crop or
the like); reap.
7. to gather the crop
from: to harvest the
fields.
8. to gain, win,
acquire, or use (a
prize, product, or
result of any past act,
process, plan, etc.).
9. to catch, take, or
remove for use:
Fishermen harvested
hundreds of salmon
from the river.
Meaning
balm·y
balm·i·er, balm·i·est.
1. mild and refreshing;
soft; soothing: balmy
weather.
2. having the qualities
of balm; aromatic;
fragrant: balmy leaves.
3. producing balm:
balmy plants; a balmy
shrub.
4. Informal. crazy;
foolish; eccentric.
Word
balmy
Meaning
Synonyms
1. fair, gentle,
temperate, clement.
Meaning
verb
1. to produce a harsh,
discordant sound, as
two comparatively
small, thin, or hollow
pieces of metal hitting
together: The charms
on her bracelet jangle
as she moves.
2. to speak angrily;
wrangle.
3. to cause to make a
harsh, discordant,
usually metallic sound:
He jangled the pots
and pans.
4. to cause to become
irritated or upset: The
loud noise of the
motors jangled his
nerves.
Word
Jangle
Meaning
noun
5. a harsh or
discordant sound.
6. an argument,
dispute, or quarrel.
Meaning
verb
1. to hide;
withdraw or
remove from
observation;
cover or keep
from sight
2. to keep secret; to
prevent or avoid
disclosing or
divulging: to conceal
one's identity by
using a false name
Word
conceal
Meaning
Synonyms
1. See hide.
Meaning
noun
1. swiftness of
motion; speed:
He performed
his task with
great haste.
They felt the need
for haste.
2. urgent need of
quick action; a hurry
or rush: to be in
haste to get ahead
in the world.
3. unnecessarily
quick action;
thoughtless, rash, or
undue speed: Haste
makes waste.
Word
hasty
Meaning
verb
to hasten.
Synonyms
1 2. flurry, bustle,
urgency,
Antonyms
1. sloth.
Meaning
noun,.
1. musical sounds in
agreeable succession
or arrangement.
2. a poem suitable for
singing.
3. intonation, as of a
segment of connected
speech.
Word
Melody
plural mel·o·dies
Meaning
Synonyms
1. See harmony. 2.
tune, song, descant,
theme.
Meaning
plod
verb
1. to walk heavily or
move laboriously;
trudge: to plod under
the weight of a burden.
2. to proceed in a
tediously slow manner:
The play just plodded
along in the second act.
3. to work with constant
and monotonous
perseverance; drudge.
4. to walk heavily over
or along.
Word
Plod
plod·ded
plod·ding
Meaning
noun
5. the act or a course
of plodding
Meaning
noun
1. any of various
shrubs belonging to
the olive
family, having large
clusters of fragrant
purple or white
flowers:
the state flower of
New Hampshire.
2. pale reddish
purple.
Word
lavender
Meaning
adjective 3. having the
color lilac.
Meaning
tan·gle
verb
1. to bring together into a
mass of confusedly
interlaced or intertwisted
threads, strands, or other
like parts; snarl.
2. to involve in something
that hampers, obstructs, or
overgrows: The bushes
were tangled with vines.
3. to catch and hold in or as
if in a net or snare.
4. to be or become tangled.
5. Informal. to come into
conflict; fight or argue: I
don't want to tangle with
him over the new ruling
Word
Meaning
Tangle
tan·gled,
tan·gling
Noun
6. a
tangled condition or
situation.
7. a tangled or
confused mass or
assemblage of
something.
8. a confused jumble:
a tangle of
contradictory
statements.
9. Informal. a conflict;
disagreement: He got
into a tangle with the
governor.
Meaning
verb
1. to leave completely and
finally; forsake utterly; desert:
to abandon one's farm; to
abandon a child; to abandon a
sinking ship.
2. to give up; discontinue;
withdraw from: to abandon a
research project; to abandon
hopes for a stage career.
3. to give up the control of: to
abandon a city to an enemy
army.
4. to yield (oneself) without
restraint or moderation; give
(oneself) over to natural
impulses, usually without selfcontrol: to abandon oneself to
grief.
5. Law. to cast away, leave, or
desert, as property or a child.
Word
Abandon
Meaning
Synonym:
Yield, resign,
surrender
Antonyms
1. keep. 2. continue;
begin, start. 3. retain.
Meaning
Adjective
Word
Moist
1. moderately or
Moister
slightly wet; damp. moistest
2. (of the eyes)
tearful.
3. accompanied by
or connected with
liquid or moisture.
4. (of the air) having
high humidity.
Meaning
Meaning
Noun
1. a region so arid
because of little rainfall
that it supports only
sparse and widely spaced
vegetation or no
vegetation at all:
2. any area in which few
forms of life can exist
because of lack of water,
permanent frost, or
absence of soil..
5. any place lacking in
something: The town was
a cultural desert.
Word
Desert
The Sahara is a vast
sandy desert.
Meaning
adjective
6. of, pertaining to, or like
a desert.
7. occurring, living, or
flourishing in the desert: a
desert tribe; a desert
palm.
8. designed or suitable for
wear in the desert, as
cool, protective clothing: a
big, wide-brimmed desert
hat.
Synonyms: desolate;
barren, infertile; arid.
Synonyms: wasteland,
barren wilderness
Meaning
verb
1. to make a loud,
rattling sound, as that
produced by hard
objects striking rapidly
one against the other:
The shutters clattered
in the wind.
2. to move rapidly
with such a sound:
The iron-wheeled cart
clattered down the
street.
3. to talk fast and
noisily; chatter: They
clattered on and on
about their children.
Word
Meaning
clatter
noun
5. a rattling noise or
series of rattling
noises: The
stagecoach made a
terrible clatter going
over the wooden
bridge.
6. noisy disturbance;
din; racket.
7. noisy talk; din of
voices: They had to
shout over the clatter
at the cocktail party.
8. idle talk; gossip.
Meaning
Adjective
1. very cold in
temperature:
2. without warmth of
feeling; without
enthusiasm: a frigid
reaction to the suggested
law.
3. stiff or formal: a
welcome that was polite
but frigid.
4. unemotional or
unimaginative; lacking
passion, sympathy, or
sensitivity: a correct, but
frigid presentation.
Word
Frigid
a frigid climate
Meaning
Synonyms
3. aloof, standoffish,
distant, frosty, chilly,
cool.
Meaning
Noun
1. a vessel used for
private cruising,
racing, or other
noncommercial
purposes.
Word
yacht
Meaning
Verb
2. to sail, voyage, or
race in a yacht.