Year 6 Prefixes: un-, re-, dis-, pre-, mis- Worksheet — Level 3 — Answers
Answer sheet with model answers and success criteria for the Year 6 vocabulary worksheet.
Year 6 Prefixes: un-, re-, dis-, pre-, mis- Worksheet — Level 3 — Answers
A prefix goes at the start of a word and changes its meaning. Write the word or circle the answer.
- Aunhappy
- Bmisplace
- Cpreheat
Answer: preheat
pre- means before: preheat means to heat before.
- Amisplace
- Bunable
- Cpreset
Answer: preset
pre- means before: preset means to set before.
- Aprecook
- Buntie
- Cretell
Answer: untie
un- means not (or undo): untie means to undo a knot.
- Adishonest
- Buntrue
- Cprecook
Answer: untrue
un- means not (or undo): untrue means not true.
- Amiscount
- Bunable
- Crebuild
Answer: miscount
mis- means wrongly or badly: miscount means to count wrongly.
- Amisplace
- Bunable
- Cretell
Answer: misplace
mis- means wrongly or badly: misplace means to put in the wrong place.
- Aunable
- Breplay
- Cmiscount
Answer: unable
un- means not (or undo): unable means not able.
- Amisbehave
- Breuse
- Cunhappy
Answer: misbehave
mis- means wrongly or badly: misbehave means to behave badly.
- Adisappear
- Bpreview
- Cmiscount
Answer: disappear
dis- means not (or the opposite of): disappear means to go out of sight.
- Amisplace
- Brebuild
- Cdishonest
Answer: dishonest
dis- means not (or the opposite of): dishonest means not honest.
- Amisplace
- Bretell
- Cunable
Answer: retell
re- means again: retell means to tell again.
- Adishonest
- Bpretest
- Creheat
Answer: reheat
re- means again: reheat means to heat again.
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