6th Grade spelling
6th Grade Words With the Prefix Anti
Words with the prefix anti, meaning against: antibiotic, antibody, antidote, antifreeze. Play hangman or print a spelling worksheet with answers.
Read the spelling list
The pattern: Anti means against: antifreeze works against freezing. Every word is anti plus a real base word.
Anti is a Greek prefix meaning against or opposed to. Antifreeze works against freezing, an antidote works against a poison, and an antibody is a protein that works against a foreign invader. In English, anti is attached to a complete base word, which means the spelling of the base is never changed.
The ten words on the list are antibiotic, antibody, antitrust, antidote, antisocial, antithesis, antivirus, antiviral, antiseptic and antifreeze. They are science and technology words, and sixth graders see them in health and life science units. Unlike many prefixes in this series, anti is Greek, which is a nice moment to point out that English draws on more than one ancient language.
10 entries. Our solver needed 0.7 wrong guesses on average: 9 easy, 1 medium and 0 hard. The toughest is antitrust (2 misses), the quickest antidote (0).
- antibiotic Easy · 1
- antibody Easy · 1
- antitrust Medium · 2
- antidote Easy · 0
- antisocial Easy · 1
- antithesis Easy · 0
- antivirus Easy · 1
- antiviral Easy · 1
- antiseptic Easy · 0
- antifreeze Easy · 0
Words worth a closer look
- antibioticAnti plus biotic, from the Greek for life: working against life, specifically bacteria.
- antifreezeAnti plus freeze. A simple word that reinforces the base-word rule.
- antidoteAnti plus dote, from a Greek word for given: something given against a poison.
- antisocialAnti plus social. Avoid confusing it with asocial.
- antivirusAnti plus virus: software or a drug that works against a virus.
Teaching it
Have students underline anti in each word and write the base: biotic, body, trust, dote, social. Then ask what the word means if you read it as against plus the base. The common spelling error is writing ante for anti, as in antebiotic. Ante means before and anti means against, so the two prefixes are worth teaching side by side.
In hangman, the opening a, n, t, i is easy, so ask players to spend their early guesses on the second half. Print the worksheet and have students write one example sentence for each word that includes the base word.
Print a 6th Grade Words With the Prefix Anti worksheet
Eight puzzles on one US Letter page, with a clue, letter blanks, an empty frame to draw in, an alphabet strip to cross off and circles to count misses. Page two is the answer key.
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Keep going
- 6th Grade Words With the Prefix InterWords with the prefix inter, meaning between or among: international, interview, interact, intersection. Play hangman or print a worksheet.
- 6th Grade Words With the Prefix TransWords with the prefix trans, meaning across: transfer, translate, transparent, transition. Play hangman or print a spelling worksheet with answers.
- 6th Grade Words With the Prefix SubWords with the prefix sub, meaning under: submarine, subtitle, substitute, subscribe. Play hangman or print a spelling worksheet with answers.
- 6th Grade Words With the Prefix SuperWords with the prefix super, meaning above or beyond: supervisor, supermarket, supernatural. Play hangman or print a worksheet with answers.
- 6th Grade Words Ending in OlogyWords ending in ology, meaning the study of: biology, technology, psychology, geology, ecology. Play hangman or print a spelling worksheet.
- 6th Grade Words Ending in IsmWords ending in ism: tourism, optimism, criticism, organism, magnetism. Play hangman with the list or print a spelling worksheet with answers.