Stems and Prefixes

Part of the words that help you understand or guess the meaning of new words.

1. Prefixes (at the beginning of a word)

Prefixes       Meaning 

-multi            many
-anti              against

2. Stems(the main part of a word)

Stems         Meaning 

-therap        treatment


3.Suffixes (the ending of a word) 

Suffixes               Meaning 

-ism                      belief in