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Academic Vocabulary
Foamy waves splash upon the beach. A misshapen pile of wet sand is out of reach of the waves. Plop! A child dumps a bucket of sand on the mound and then carves lines into it. After some time the pile of sand looks somewhat like a castle.
The prefix mis– helps the reader determine that the word misshapen means -
A. badly shaped C. before being shaped
B. having many shapes D. being shaped again
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