Power Prefixes for Eighth Grade Students: para- (beside, beyond)

Learn these words beginning with the prefix para, meaning "beside" or "beyond."
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  1. parallel
    being everywhere equidistant and not intersecting
  2. parish
    a local church community
  3. paragraph
    one of several distinct subdivisions of a text
  4. paradox
    a statement that contradicts itself
  5. paralyze
    cause to be immobile
  6. parasite
    an animal or plant that lives in or on a host
  7. parable
    a short moral story
  8. paralysis
    loss of the ability to move a body part
  9. paraphrase
    express the same message in different words
  10. parenthesis
    a punctuation mark used to enclose textual material
  11. paranoid
    suffering from delusions of persecution or grandeur
  12. parabola
    a symmetrical, approximately U-shaped curve
  13. parallelogram
    a quadrilateral whose opposite sides are parallel and equal
  14. paramedic
    a person trained to give emergency medical treatment
  15. paralegal
    a person with specialized training who assists lawyers
Created on Wed Dec 17 11:01:41 EST 2025 (updated Wed Dec 17 17:07:16 EST 2025)

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