Divide the following English words into morphemes. Label each morpheme as a root, prefix, or suffix (do not worry about the distinction between root and stem at this point). There may be some interesting, controversial, and tricky examples here, but they will provide some good points to ponder and discuss:
a. heaviness
b. silly
c. linguistic
d. universal
e. dirty
f. neighborhood
g. untitled
h. rejection
i. enlighten
j. rationalistically
k. walked
l. overemphasized
m. inequality
n. readable
o. understand
p. different
q. unnaturally
r. remittance
s. pitifully
t. indecipherable
u. incomprehensibilificationalism
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