
IELTS Energy 1169: How to Understand Vocabulary on IELTS Reading
IELTS Energy English 7+
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The Meaning of a Word
If the word has a suffix or a prefix, something that's coming before or after, which will give you a hint as to its meaning. For example, anti will ma will mean it's the opposite of something. Pre is actually a prefix but what does pre mean? That means before. Some good examples are predestined. You see destine or destination, destiny in there, and pre before. So that'd be something that was destined to happen before something else. And yes, this does still happen to native speakers, right? We don't know every single word in the english language,. But when we see new words that are really long, i love being able to part it
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