Identify the prefix in 'unpredictable' and its meaning.

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Identify the prefix in 'unpredictable' and its meaning.

Explanation:
Un- is a negation prefix that means not or the opposite of. In unpredictable, it attaches to predictable, flipping its sense from something that can be foreseen to something that cannot be foreseen. Predictable means able to be predicted; adding un- makes it not able to be predicted, i.e., not predictable. The other options don’t fit because re- means again, in- means in or not (but not in this word’s sense), and pre- means before.

Un- is a negation prefix that means not or the opposite of. In unpredictable, it attaches to predictable, flipping its sense from something that can be foreseen to something that cannot be foreseen. Predictable means able to be predicted; adding un- makes it not able to be predicted, i.e., not predictable. The other options don’t fit because re- means again, in- means in or not (but not in this word’s sense), and pre- means before.

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