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WORD FORMATION

able - enable,
unable
accept acceptance,
unacceptable
accurate inaccurate
achieve achievement
actual - actually
adequate inadequate
advantage disadvantage
adventruistic,
adventursim
adventure adventureful,
unadventuring,
adventurist,
adventurous,
unadventurous
adventured,
adventurist
advice - advisor
allege - allegedly
amaze amazement,
amazing
angry - anger
announce announcement
annoy - annoying
apology - apologise
appear disappearance
apply - applicant,
application
appreciate appreciation
appropriate appropriately,
inappropriate
argue - argument
arrange arrangement
arrive - arrival
art - artists

assist - assistance,
assistant
athletic - athlete
attend - attendance
aware - unaware
behave - behaviour,
misbehave
behave - behavour
believe - believable,
unbelievable,
disbelief
big - biggest
blood - bleed
book - booked
bright - brighten,
brightness
capable - capability,
incapable
care - carelessly
character characteristic
child - childhood
choose - choice
circulate circulation
clean - cleanliness
clear - clarify
colour - colourful
combine combination
comfort uncomfortable
commerce
-commercial
communicate communication
companion company
compare
-comparison
compete competition,
competitive
complain complaint
compose composer
concentrate concentration

concern unconcerned
confide - confidence
confidence confident
connect connection
consistent consistently
consolidate consolidation
construct construction
consume sonsumption
converse conversation
convey - conveyor
convinient inconvinient
count - countless
creator - creation
credible - incredible
criminal criminalise
critic - criticism,
critics, criticise,
critical
custom - customer
danger - dangerous,
endanger
dark - darkness
darken - dark
day - daily
decide - decision
deep - depth
defend - defensive
demonstration demonstrate
depend dependence,
indepedence,
independent
depress - depressing
describe description
determine determination

devastate devastating
die - deadly
differ - different,
differently
difficult - difficulty
direct - direction
discuss - discussion
drama - dramatic
drink - drinking,
drinkable
ecology - ecological
educate - education,
educational
effect - ineffective
effective effectiveness
emotion - emotional
emotion - emotional
employ - employee,
employer,
employment,
unemployment
encourage encouragement,
discouraged
end - endless,
endlessly
engage engagement
engine engineering,
engineer
enter - entry
entertain entertainment
enjoy - enjoyable,
enjoyment
equip - equipment
evident - evidence
exact - exactly
exist - existence
experience inexperienced
explain explanation
extreme - extremely
fact - factor
fascinate fascinating
flexible - flexibility

forgetful forgetfulness
fortune unfortunate
frantic - frantically
free - freedom
friend - friendly,
friendship
friendly friendliness
frighten -frightening
frozen - freeze
generation generate
give - gift
happy - happiness,
unhappiness,
unhappy
harm - harmful,
harmless
health - healthy
heat - hottest
help - helpfull,
unhelpful, helpless
high - height
homeless homelessness
honest - dishonest
hope - hopeful,
hopeless
hot - heat
hygiene unhygienic
ice - icy
identity - identify
imagine imaginative
importance unimportant
impress - impression
improve improvement
incident coincidence
infect - disinfect
innocent innocence
instant - instantly
intelligent intelligence
intend - intention

investigate investigation
journal - journalism,
journalist
judge - judgement
just - justify
kind - unkind
know - knowledge
large - enlarge
legal - illegal
life - lives
likely - unlikely
limit - limitation
listen - listener
literate - illiterate
locate - location
lonely - loneliness
long - length,
lengthen
loose - loosened
lose - loss
low - lower
luck - unlucky
manage - managers
marry - marriage
meaning meaningful,
meaningless
memory - memorise
miracle - miraculous
modern - modernise
moral - immoral
music - musician
natural - naturally
necessary necessarily
obey - disobedient
oblige - obligation
occur - occurence
operate - operation
origin - original
pain - painless
patience - impatient
patient impatiently,
patience
perfect - perfection,
perfectionist,
immperfection
perfection - perfect,
imperfect

perform performance
permit - permission
person - personal,
personaly
personal personally
pessimist pessimistic
please - pleasant,
unpleasant
point - pointless
polite - impolite
politician - politics
possible impossible
potential potentially
power - powerful
practise - practice
precise - precision,
precisely
predict - predictable
prefer - preferable
prepare preparation,
unprepared,
preparedness
present presentation
pretend - pretense
price - priceless
priority - prioritise
produce production
product - productive
profession professional
progress progression
prove - proof
provision - provide
public - publicity
qualify qualification
read - misread
real - reality,
realistic, really

reassure reassurance
relate - relationships
relax - relaxation,
relaxed
relevance irrelevant
rely - reliable,
unreliable
repeat - repetition
represent representative,
representation
rescue - rescuers
research researcher
resolve - resolution
responsibility irresponsible,
responsibility
retrieve - retrieval
ridicule -ridiculous
rude - rudeness
sad - sadness
sadness - sadly
safe - safety
satisfaction dissatisfied
satisfy - unsatisfying
save - safety
scare - scary
see - sight
sense - sensible
separate separation
short shortage,shorten,
shortness
sick - sickness
snob - snobbery
solve - solution
speak - speech
special - specialise
specific - specify
spice - spicy
spoil - unspoiled,
unspoilt
stress - stressful

strong - strength,
strengthen,
strengthened
succeed unsuccessful
success successfully
support - supportive
sure - ensure, surely
surprise - surprising,
surprisingly
survive - survival
suspend suspension
sympathy sympathetic
taste - tasteful
technician technology
terror - terrify,
terrifying
think - thoughtless,
thoughtful
threat - threaten
throughout through
tight - tightened
tired - tiredness
tour - tourist,
tourism
train - training
treat - treatment
true - untruthfully
understand misunderstand
understanding misunderstanding
use - useful, useless
vary - various
visit - visitor
warn - warning
weak - weakened,
weakness
wed - weddings
weight - weighed
wide - widened,
width, widen
worth - worthless

en-

-ify

-ise

enlarge
enable
entrust
enrage
ensure
en danger

beautify
clarify
specify
identify
terrify
purify

televise
advise
organise
specialise
prioritise
criminalise
apologise

Noun
application
permission
solution
description
intention
competition
decision
explanation
production
repetition
consumption
qualification

Verb
apply
permit
solve
describe
intend
compete
decide
explain
produce
repeat
comsume
qualify

-en
widen
lengthen
deepen
shorten
tighten
brighten
darken
weaken
strengthen

Adjective
applicable
permissable
unsolved
descriptive
unintended
competitive
decisive
unexplained
productive
repetitive
consumable
qualified

Verb
achieve
amuse
argue
develop
encourage
excite
improve
involve
judge
measure
Adjective
aware
dark
forgetful
happy
homeless
lazy
lonely
rude
tidy
weak

Noun
care
harm
help
hope
pain
power
use
thought
taste
Noun
count
end
home
peace
play
price
success
truth
worth

Noun
achievement
amusement
argument
development
encouragement
excitement
improvement
involvement
judgement
measurement
Noun
awareness
darkness
forgetfulness
happiness
homelessness
laziness
loneliness
rudeness
tidiness
weakness

Verb
care
harm
help
hope
pain
power
use
think
taste
Verb
count
end
play
price
succeed
worth

Adjective
careful/careless
harmful/harmless
(un)helpful/helpless
hopeful/hopeless
painful/painless
powerful/powerless
useful/useless
thoughtful/thoughtless
tasteful/tasteless
Adjective
countless/countable
endless
homeless
peaceful
playful
priceless
(un)successful
(un)truthful/(un)true
worthless

ununexpected
unaware
unbelievable
unknown
unable
ilillegal
illiterate
illogical
illegible

in
inaccurate
inappropriate
inefficient
incapable
ineffective
irirregular
irresponsible
irrational
irregular

Noun (-ence)
evidence
existence
(in)dependence
difference
intelligence
(dis)obedience
excellence
silence
violence
innocence
occurrence
(im)patience
Noun (-ance)
attendance
attendant (person)
assistance
assistant (person)
(dis)appearance
distance
(un)importance
acceptance
reassurance
(ir)relevance
(in)significance

disdisapprove
dislike
disagree
disbelief
dishonest
mismisbehave
misunderstand
misspell
misuse

Adjective
evident
existing
(in)dependent
different
intelligent
(dis)obedient
excellent
silent
violent
innocent
(im)patient

imimprobable
impossible
impolite
imperfect
impatient
-less
careless
harmless
helpless
endless

Verb
to exist
to depend
to differ
to (dis)obey
to excel
to silence
to violate
to occur
-

Adjective
-

Verb
to attend

to assist

apparent
distant
(un)important
accepting
reassured
(ir)relevant
(in)significant

to (dis)appear
accept
to reassure
to signify

Noun
(dis)belief
a choice
a defense
a death
a gift
a loss
a marriage
practice
pretense
proof
safety
a sight
a speech
a success
a thought

Adjective
deep
high
wide
long
short
large
low
tight
loose
strong
weak
dark
bright

Verb
(dis)believe
choose
defend
die
give
lose
marry
practise
pretend
(dis)prove
save
see
speak
succeed
think

Adjective
(un)believable
chosen
defensive
dead/deadly
lost
(un)married
practising
(un)proven
(un)safe
unseen
(un)spoken
(un)successful
thoughtful/less

Noun
depth
height
weight
width
length
shortage (= not enough)
shortness (= not tall)
enlargement
tightness
looseness
strength
weakness
darkness
dark
brightness

Adverb
(un)believably
defensively
deadly
safely
(un)successfully
thoughtfully/lessly

Verb
deepen
heighten
weigh
widen
lengthen
shorten
enlarge
lower
tighten
loosen
strengthen
weaken
darken
brighten

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