
Prefixes
Judeo— refers to Jews or something Jewish, or something in addition to Judaism
Judeo-Christian
junct— stands for join
junction, conjunction, disjunction
jur— stands for law or justice
juror
jurisdiction
juxta— near or alongside
juxtaposition
Suffixes
—ject creates verbs meaning to throw something
eject
interject
project
—jud refers to law
judgment (or judgement)
judicial
judiciary
—jugal refers to a yoke
conjugal
—junct refers to a joining
junction, conjunction, disjunction
juncture
—juven refers to young
juvenile
rejuvenate
Exercises
- Look in a dictionary and count the number of pages devoted to the letters J, Z, Q, and X.
- Why are there so few prefixes and suffixes starting with the letter J?
- Look on the Internet for a description of the juvenile stage of jellyfish.
Special reading assignment
- “Jumping Jehoshephat” is an oath taken from the story of a great king in the Bible. — from 2 Chronicles 20
- The jackal is a species of wild dog found in Africa and is rather similar to the North American coyote.
- The moon jellyfish, pictured, is the adult or medusa stage of Aurelia aurita.