Answer — Exercise 2
Vocabulary 7·New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book
Question
- Look at audioscript 2.18 on page 171 and find a word to match each definition below.
- Look at the words from exercise 2a and write the appropriate prefixes in the table.
- Read the rule below about hyphens. Then write one more example of your own for each prefix from the table in exercise 2b, e.g. monolingual.
Answer
a)
1
- unusual
- extra-large
- monotonous
2
- oversleep (overslept)
- underestimate(d)
- ex-boss
3
- retrain
- bilingual
- multinational
b)
Prefixes
- mono
- bi
- multi
- over
- under
- ex
- re
- extra
- un
Examples
- monotonous
- bilingual
- multinational
- oversleep
- underestimate
- ex-boss
- retrain
- extra-large
- unusual
c)
- monocycle / monopoly
- bimonthly / bilateral
- multicoloured / multimedia
- overspend / overripe
- underage / underperform
- redo / reboot
- extrasensitive/ extra-light
- undecided / unfair