EXERCISE 11. Complete the words in these sentences using suitable prefixes

pseudo-, a-, hyper-, fore-, neo-, mis-, dis-, over-, re-, arch-, out-, mal

1. I’m sorry, I _____understood her message completely.

2. We normally have similar opinions but I ____agree with him totally on the subject of drugs.

3. Apparently her alarm-clock didn’t ring and she ______slept.

4. I don’t think I can pass the exam, but I can always ______take it in September.

5. In my opinion this book is just ______ -intellectual rubbish.

6. Although he was older than his wife, he _____lived her by ten years.

7. Priests are not often ambitious men, but he had set his heart on becoming ______bishop.

8. The launch of the space-rocket was delayed by a ______function in the fuel system.

9. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Britain’s _____-enemy was France.

10. He completely ____boxed his opponent and knocked him out in the seventh round.

11. Children who grow up in time of war are more likely to be ____adjusted than other children.

12. He uses ___-scientific language to persuade his readers.

13. These squalid, dark, cramped, ______odorous rooms are homes to whole families of people.

14. She was the finest dancer in the country. She ______shone all the others.

15. The British Museum was built in the middle of the nineteenth century in the _____ -classical style popular at that time.

16. Who can ______tell what the future holds for us?

17. It’s no use asking him about the political system or the parties. He doesn’t know or care. He’s completely ­­____political.

18. It’s quite normal to complain if you think something is wrong, but I do feel that you are sometimes ____critical.

19. The authorities are concerned at the activities of a small ___ -Nazi movement.

20. You must be very careful what you say about her poems. She’s a _____sensitive person.

21. She didn’t know the difference between right and wrong. She had no conscience at all. She was simply ____moral.

22. The police claimed that she had some _____knowledge of the murder attempt and could have prevented it.

23. He was standing in the middle, in the ____ground of the picture.

24. Young children can sometimes be _____active, which means that they can’t keep still.

25. ‘Maybe you’re ____reading its meaning. Remember, the Grail can be deceptive.’