Vocabulary Worksheet: Pre

Predict: question to answer- What are two things you would like to be able to predict? My future and my fate.
Prevent: question to answer- What are three things you would like to be able to prevent? Mistakes, careless mistakes in exams and needless deaths.
Preview: question to answer- What is something besides a movie or TV show that you could preview? A book.
Precaution: question to answer- What are four examples of precautions for four different things? Safety in a lab, No running around in a clinic, No running around in a carpark and No smoking in a bedroom.
Prefer: question to answer- What are three things you prefer doing? Playing computer games, listening to music and reading books.
Previous: question to answer- What are three things you learned in previous classes? Density, the Bunsen burner and lab safety in science.
Prenatal: question to answer- What would "prenatal care" mean? You have to care for your child even before his birth.
Pre-owned: question to answer- What are three things people often buy "pre-owned?" A television set, a sofa set and a computer.
Prelude: question to answer- What are three examples of "preludes?" Dark clouds as a prelude to a storm, a prelude to a piece of music and a prelude to a book.
Preoccupied: question to answer- What are three things someone who is "preoccupied" might say? Do not disturb me, go away and I am trying to do something now.
Prequel: question to answer- Why would someone write a prequel? To write the events which happened before the sequel.
Predispose: question to answer- What are three things you could do so that you were predisposed to get good grades? Study hard, get enough sleep and listen to the teacher in class.
Preamble: question to answer- How is a preamble like a prelude? It is an introductory statement before an important statement.
Preempt: question to answer- What are two things you would not like to be preempted? A TV show and a basketball match.
Preface: question to ask- Where in a book would you find or put the preface? At the first few pages of the book.
Preprandial: question to answer- What are two of your favorite preprandial activities? Going for a stroll in the park and playing computer games.

Here are some other words where "pre" means before
pretext, predecessor, preconception, precede, preclude, precognition, preliminary, premeditate, premature, premonition, prenuptial, preordain, prerogative, prerequisite
Complete these sentences with the "pre" word. Be sure to mix these sentences with words learned in previous lessons.
predict, prevent, preview, precaution, prefer, previous, prenatal, pre-owned, prelude, preoccupied, prequel, predisposed, preempt, preface, preprandial
1. I like to take a preprandial walk to work up my appetite for dinner.
2. I don't like it when the networks _____preempt____________________ my favorite TV shows because of sports.
3. One of the jobs of the meteorologist on the news is to _____________predict__________________ tomorrow's weather.
4. Just as a _______precaution_________________ , I always lock the car doors when I am driving.
5. Which of these coats do you ________prefer________________ to wear tonight?
6. I don't think Mike heard a word I said because he was so ___________preoccupied_______________ about his sick sister.
7. We got to the concert at the symphony hall just in time -- we barely sat down before the conductor started the _________prelude______________________ .