Vocabulary Packet #6Prefix: de-

de-• down, out

• Part of speech• prefix

decay• to break down; to rot

• Part of speech• verb

decline• to go down; to droop;

to slope downward

• Part of speech• verb

decode• to break down

words or sentences to read

• Part of speech• verb

decrease• to lower or break down into a smaller amount

• Part of speech• verb

deduct• to take out ; to remove;

to take away from another (usually related to money)

• Part of speech• verb

dejected• feeling down; sad

• Part of speech• adjective

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 that they were dejected. 7 So he asked Pharaoh’s officials who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why are your faces so sad today?”

depress• to press down

• Part of speech• verb

deport• to send out of the

country; to expel from the country

• Part of speech• verb