Top 10 Prefixes to Expand Your English Vocabulary

Prefixes in English perform the same role as in Russian. With their help, new words are formed. Using them, you can enrich your speech with new vocabulary - based on the one you have already heard, reports Skyeng.

RE (repeat action)

• Rewrite - rewrite
• Redo - redo
• Repost - repost
• Replay - play again
• Repaint - repaint

DE (remove, cancel)

• Deactivate - deactivate
• Demotivate - demotivate
• Degrade - Degrade, lower
• Deforestation - deforestation
• Dethrone - to dethrone

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DIS (reverse)

• Dislike - not to love
• Disagree - disagree
• Disconnect - disconnect
• Disable - disable
• Dishonest - dishonest

OUT (do something better)

• Outspeak - speak out
• Outstanding - outstanding
• Outdo - surpass
• Outgrow - outgrow
• Outperform - to surpass

OVER (redundancy)

• overconfident - too confident
• Overweight - excess weight
• Overcome - overcome, overcome
• Overreact - overreact
• Overestimate - overestimate

UNDER (insufficiency)

• Underestimate - underestimate
• Underweight - underweight
• Underline - underline
• Undercook - undercook
• Underage - minor

UN (make negative)

• Unhappy - unhappy
• Unstable - unstable
• Untrustable - not inspiring confidence
• Unable - unable
• Unreliable - unreliable

MIS (indicates incorrectness, infidelity)

• Misunderstanding - misunderstanding
• misfortune - failure
• Mishear - misheard
• misspell - misspell
• Misbehave - misbehave

CO (to do together)

• Cooperative - joint
• collaboration
• Coincidence - coincidence
• Coworker - employee, colleague
• Coeducation - Co-education

EX- (make it past)

• ex-president - ex-president
• ex boyfriend - ex-boyfriend
• ex-wife - ex-wife
• ex-member - former member
• ex-minister - former minister
• ex-emperor - former emperor