Add ‘un’ – to the words below to make their opposites. Then look up the meanings of the words you have formed in the dictionary.

1. identified ______________


2. controlled ______________


3. attended ______________


4. successful ______________


5. important ______________


6. educated ______________


7. interesting ______________


8. qualified ______________


9. trained ______________


10. answerable ______________


1. identified – unidentified


2. controlled – uncontrolled


3. attended – unattended


4. successful – unsuccessful


5. important – unimportant


6. educated – uneducated


7. interesting - uninteresting


8. qualified – unqualified


9. trained - untrained


10. Answerable – unanswerable


Meaning


1. unidentified – not recognized


2. uncontrolled – the loss of power to control a situation or certain things


3. unattended – not noticed or looked after


4. unsuccessful – the situation of failure


5. unimportant – the lack of value for something


6. uneducated – lack of literacy i.e. the basic level of learning to read and write


7. uninteresting – something boring in nature


8. unqualified – not fit for a particular task


9. untrained – not enough experience


10. unanswerable – the inability to be answerable to a particular cause


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