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Difficult words in the word formation

exercise
Recognise Recognisable/Recognizable
Likely Likelihood
History Historians (not historicians)
Fruit Fruitful (not fructiferous)
Rely Reliance (not reliation)
Notoriety Notoriously (not notably)
Certain Ascertain (meaning to determine)
Rigour Rigorous (not rigourous)
Rain Rainfall
Appreciate Appreciably (not appeciately)
Go Undergo
Ambiguous Ambiguity (not ambiguousity)
Notice Noticeable (not noticiable)
Maintain Maintenance (not maintainance)
High Height
Anxious Anxiety
See Insight
Lonely Loneliness
Repeat Repeatedly (different from repetitively)
Just Justice
Break Breakthrough
Press Pressure (not pression)
Retail Retailers
Exceed Excessive (not exceedful)
Efficient Efficientcy (noun) / Efficiently (adverb)
Bring Upbringing
Ordinary Extraordinarily (adverb intensifier) / Extraordinary (adjective)
Depress Depressive (involves indirect cause like enviroment or situation) / Depressing (more
direct)
Base Basically
Assert Assertion (not assertment)

Negatives:
Perfection Imperfection
Logical Ilogical
Frequent Infrequent (not Unfrequent)
Conclusive Inconclusive (not unconclusive)
Variable Invariable (not unvariable)
Question Unquestionably (not inquestionably)
Access Inaccessible (not unaccessible)
Appear Disappear
Close Disclose (opposite from enclose)
-EN addition: increasing the quality
Widen: make it more wide
Shorten: make it short
Strenghthen: make it more strong
Heighten: make it more height or intensify

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