Name: 用1個簡單的招數增長詞彙量。高級詞彙課 (Grow Vocabulary with 1 Simple Trick: Advanced Vocabulary Lesson)
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Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.

Let's talk about expanding your vocabulary.

Whether you have a big English exam coming
up like the IELTS or TOEFL, or maybe you want

to just find the right word the next time
you have an English conversation, this lesson's

I have one specific tip for you that will
help you take your base vocabulary and expand

Well, it's a few letters that you add at the
beginning of a word or a few letters that

At the beginning, like Un- is a prefix, unhappy.

At the end of a word, like -ful is a suffix,
graceful.

When you learn these affixes, the prefixes
and suffixes, you'll really recognize these

in a lot of different situations and you'll
know, "Oh, because I know what that prefix

means, I know what this full new word means."

Throughout this lesson you might wonder, "Why,
Vanessa, do we say unhappy and not dishappy?

Because un and dis have a similar meaning?"

Well, as my grandma would say, "Lord knows."

So here the key is really repetition, repetition
and maybe a little quiz.

At the end of this lesson, I'm going to give
you a little quiz, so make sure you take notes

about the affixes, which are prefixes or suffixes
that you're not familiar with.

Let's get started with prefixes, which you'll
find at the beginning of a word.

Anticlimactic, anti-inflammatory, antiwar.

Do you get the feeling that if someone said,
"I'm antiwar, that they love war?"

Or if something is an anti-inflammatory, you
often find this in medicine, it means that

You need to take an anti-inflammatory and
it will help your inflammation go down.

When you cover something, you are hiding it.

You're not looking at it, but when you discover
something, you're opening it up.

When you agree with someone, the opposite
is disagree.

En- Em- cause to, enact, enable, empower,
embrace.

Do you notice in these words the root word,
the root word is what's left after the prefix.

So we can take that part that we know and
then think enable.

Well if En- means because to do something
we can say that to able and then enable means

that you're helping someone be able to do
something.

You're causing something to be able to happen.

Fore-, before, front of, foreshadow, forearm,
forecast.

This is in front of your arm, in front of
your body.

Well, this is when the weatherman says tomorrow
it's going to be rainy.

He is making a guess before something happens.

In-, Im-, In-, this one's pretty self-explanatory.

Your income is the amount of money that you
make.

Do you notice that those first two are the
same that we just talked about?

So you need to make sure that you know these
words by heart.

Indirect, injustice, immoral, illiterate,
irreverent, irresponsible.

Look at that root word and then when we add
this prefix, it changes it to be the opposite

It means irresponsible, means not responsible.

So it changes the root word responsible to
mean the opposite.

We can do that with all the other ones as
well.

When you interact with other people, you're
having a conversation with multiple people.

You are having a conversation among other
people.

Maybe you interrupted someone mid-sentence.

You stop them in the middle of that sentence,
mid-sentence.

You'll see here that sometimes there's a hyphen
after the prefix, mid-sentence.

Sometimes hyphens are required an English
and sometimes you have a choice.

If you want to stick the word together or
if you want to put a hyphen.

Some of these are optional, so make sure that
you check those out.

Mis-, wrongly, misspell, misstep, misdemeanor.

If you spell something wrong, you misspell
the word.

If something is completely confusing, it doesn't
make any sense, it is nonsense.

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用1個簡單的招數增長詞彙量。高級詞彙課 (Grow Vocabulary with 1 Simple Trick: Advanced Vocabulary Lesson)

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