Final answer:
Match each word with the corresponding prefix or suffix meaning: 'alto-' means high, 'fore-' means before, 'dis-' means stretch. Additionally, phonetics play a role in spelling, such as when identifying long and short vowel sounds and underlining letters that create consonant sounds in words.
Step-by-step explanation:
The question asks to match each word with the correct meaning of its bolded prefix, root, or suffix. The words given are altostratus, foresight, distend, and the prefixes or suffix to be matched are 'alto-', 'fore-', 'dis-', and '-end'. Here are the matches:
- a. altostratus - alto- means 'high'
- b. foresight - fore- means 'before'
- c. distend - dis- means 'stretch'
- d. before - Arrowright signifies moving from the word to its matched meaning
Furthermore, the discussion of prefixes, bases, and suffixes leads us to examine how the spelling of words like 'digestion' and 'spiritual' change when broken down into their respective parts, highlighting the significance of the letter 't' in palatalization creating a [ch] sound as seen in 'adventureous' from 'ad + vent + ure + ous'. Phonetically, vowel sounds are categorized as either short or long, e.g., the word 'track' has a short 'a' [a] whereas 'shape' has a long 'a' [ā]. Additionally, to understand how consonants are represented in spelling, we may underline the letters that correspond to certain sounds, as in identifying the 'b' in 'bubble'.