Prefix: MIS-
Prefix: MIS-
Have you ever heard the phrase, "Don't judge a book by its cover"?
That phrase means not to base your opinion of a book or a person only on what you can see on the outside. If you do, you're like to misjudge the book (or the person.
What does it mean to misjudge something? It means to judge something wrongly or incorrectly. You can know this by looking at the prefix of the word misjudge, mis-.
A prefix is a word or group of letters that is placed at the beginning of a word. It helps change the meaning of a word and helps clue you in to what the word means.
The prefix mis- means badly, wrongly, or incorrectly. So when you misjudge something, you judge it badly, wrongly, or incorrectly.
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