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Academic Word List- vocabulary with negative prefixes
Find the words below which have negative prefixes but don’t have negative meanings.
abnormal
disproportionate
illiberal
immature/ immaturity
inaccessible
inadaptable
inappropriate
incoherent
inconsistency/ inconsistent
indiscrete/ indiscretion
insecurity
instability
invalid/ invalidity
irrelevant/ irrelevance
nonconformist
unambiguous
unbeneficial
unclear
uncommunicative
unconstitutional
unconstructive
unconvincing
uncreative
undiminished
undynamic
unempirical
unethical
unideological
uninvolving
unlicensed
unmotivated
unrefined
unreliable
deregulation/ deregulate
illegal
illogical
imprecise/ imprecision
inaccurate
inadequate
incapable
incompatible/ incompatibility
indemonstrable
inflexible/ inflexibility
insignificant
insufficient
irrational
misinterpret/ misinterpretation
unachievable
unapproachable
unbiased
uncommitted
unconfined
unconstrained
uncontroversial
uncooperative
uncultured
undiscriminating
uneconomical
unenergetic
unfocused
uninjured
unjustifiable
unmethodical
unprofessional
unregulated
unsustainable
Written by Alex Case for UsingEnglish.com © 2013
Hint: There are eight.
Try to remember the negative prefixes of the words below:
accessible
accurate
achievable
adaptable
adequate
ambiguous
approachable
appropriate
beneficial
biased
capable
clear
coherent
committed
communicative
compatible/ compatibility
confined
conformist
consistency/ consistent
constitutional
constrained
constructive
controversial
convincing
cooperative
creative
cultured
demonstrable
diminished
discrete/ discretion
discriminating
dynamic
economical
empirical
energetic
ethical
flexible/ flexibility
focused
ideological
injured
interpret/ interpretation
involving
justifiable
legal
liberal
licensed
logical
mature/ maturity
methodical
motivated
normal
precise/ precision
professional
proportionate
rational
refined
regulated
regulation/ regulate
relevant/ relevance
reliable
security
significant
stability
sufficient
sustainable
valid/ validity
Try to argue that some of the words are not necessarily in the right section and/ or that
some of the opposites do not have opposite connotations. You will get one point for each
one that you argue convincingly.
Use the list on the next page to help you if you need to.
What phrases can you use to talk about positive and negative aspects?
Written by Alex Case for UsingEnglish.com © 2013
Academic Word List- vocabulary with negative prefixes
Suggested answers
Positive words with negative prefixes
deregulation/ deregulate
nonconformist
unbiased
unconstrained
uncontroversial
undiminished
unideological
uninjured
Words which could be debated
adequate
biased
clear/ clarity
committed
confined
conformist
constitutional
constrained
controversial
cooperative
diminished
dynamic
empirical
flexible/ flexibility
focused
ideological
interpret
justifiable
liberal
licensed
mature
methodical
nonconformist
normal
professional
refined
regulated
regulation/ regulate
reliable
security
stability
sufficient
sustainable
unambiguous
unconfined
unconstrained
uncontroversial
Written by Alex Case for UsingEnglish.com © 2013

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