ACTIVITY 1.2 Continued
Practice 3 Imagine that your life is set within the historical context of Harlem, New York City, in
the early 1900s. New York City's culture contains a great deal of racism against African American
You are a high school student witnessing the racism firsthand. Write a four-sentence diary entry
that describes the feelings you have. Use the following vocabulary words, one in each sentence.
indignities, solidarity, ndive, fueling.

Syllable added to a root word to change its meaning : affixan independent word--example run,walk,book : free morphemeaffix that gives grammatical meaning such as tense or number : inflectiona word part that must attach to a word in order to be usable : bound morphemedegree of comparison formed by adding -er or more to an adjective : comparativedegree of comparison formed by adding -est or most to an adjective : superlativeaffix added to the beginning of a word : prefixaffix added to the end of a word : suffixroot word of lovable : lovetwo roots used together to form one word : combining form