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Improve Your Vocabulary By Knowing These Latin Prefixes

Posted by admin on 11th May in Prejudice

English contains many words adopted from other languages. In fact, experts estimate 80% of English words originated elsewhere. The biggest influence on English vocabulary is Latin. An examination of the 20,000 most used words reveals 5,000 words contain prefixes and over 80% of these use one of only fourteen of the many different prefixes available. [...]

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