Advanced Vocabulary Words: Confident to Demise
This set splits neatly down the middle. The first half opens with con-, the together prefix, and the second half opens with de-, which pushes a meaning down, away, or backward. Sorting the ten words into those two piles is most of the work. Two words refuse to join either group, and one of them, […]
Advanced Vocabulary Words: Chasm to Concoct
Read this set aloud and something jumps out: cohort, commission, commodity, community, concoct. Five of the ten words begin with the same Latin prefix, and it is not a coincidence of the alphabet. It is a family. The prefix is com-, which becomes con- or co- depending on the sound that follows, and it means […]
