Lesson 1 of 11 · 7 min

Building meaning from word parts

You can unlock big words by breaking them into prefix + root + suffix. un- (not) + break + -able (able to be) = unbreakable (not able to be broken). Combining known parts lets you understand words you've never seen.

un + break + able

Prefix + root + suffix

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