Cover of the textbook Performer B2 - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 5

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5 - Reading for the textbook Performer B2 - Student's Book with authors Marina Spiazzi, Marina Tavella, Margaret Layton from Zanichelli

Question

Find the words in the text that are formed with some of the prefixes above and write down their base words.

Answer

  • down-: downhearted (base word: hearted)
  • extra-: extraordinary (base word: ordinary)
  • inter-: international (base word: national)
  • over-: overconfident (base word: confident)
  • re-: returned (base word: turn)
  • trans-: transformed (base word: formed)
  • under-: underestimated (base word: estimated)