This document provides definitions for words with the prefix "de-". It defines the following words: decay, decline, decode, decrease, deduct, dejected, depress, and deport. For each word it gives the definition, part of speech, and an example sentence for the word "dejected". The summary is in 3 sentences or less.

1. Vocabulary Packet #6
Prefix: de-

2. de-
• down, out
• Part of speech
• prefix

3. decay
• to break down; to rot
• Part of speech
• verb

4. decline
• to go down; to droop;
to slope downward
• Part of speech
• verb

5. decode
• to break down
words or
sentences to read
• Part of speech
• verb

6. decrease
• to lower or break
down into a smaller
amount
• Part of speech
• verb

7. deduct
• to take out ; to remove;
to take away from
another (usually related
to money)
• Part of speech
• verb

8. dejected
• feeling down; sad
Genesis 40:5-7
New International Version 1984 (NIV1984)
5
each of the two men—the cupbearer and the baker of the
king of Egypt, who were being held in prison—had a
dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of
its own.
6
When Joseph came to them the next morning, he saw
• Part of speech that they were dejected. 7 So he asked Pharaoh’s officials
• adjective who were in custody with him in his master’s house,
“Why are your faces so sad today?”

9. depress
• to press down
• Part of speech
• verb

10. deport
• to send out of the
country; to expel from
the country
• Part of speech
• verb