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WORD FORMATION

SUFFIXES

NOUN SUFFIXES

a) State, Action & Quality

-ment
-ion/tion/sion
-ation/ition
-ence/ance
-ty/ity
-ness
-ing
-hood
-ship

employment
Discussion/production/permission
Invitation/ opposition
Preference/ distance
Certainty/security
Illness, happiness
building
childhood
friendship

b) for people
-er/or
-ist
-ant/ent
-an/ian
-ee

Driver / editor
Tourist
Assistant / student
Republican / electrician
employee

Add
Admire
Agree
Amuse
Appear
Apply
Argue
Assist
Astonish
Calculate
Collect
Encourage
Enter
Excite
Fit
Important
Impress
interfere
Play*
romantic
Study*
Understand

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Permit
refresh
Measure
Shop
Solve
Tired
Train
Translate
Warn
Perform
Examine
Train*
Paint*
Mother
Comedy*
Art*
Science*
member
Mean
extravagant
Resist
Observe

VERB SUFFIXES
-ize/ise
-en
-ify

bright
general
beauty
standard

Privatise
widen
simplify

modern
short
simply
sharp

ADJECTIVE SUFFIXES
-al
-ic
-ive
- ful
-less
-ous
-y
-able/ible
-ish

-ly
-wards

professional
Metallic
informative
successful
Hopeless
dangerous
rocky
Comfortable / visible
English / brownish

recently
backwards

economy
possibility
Help*
physic
Friend*
religion
salt
cloud
convert
spain

ADVERB SUFFIXES
nervous
up
quick

accident
green
Colour*
use
thirst
red
attract
environment
ambition
green

bad
beautiful
back

PREFIXES (negative)
DisIl- (+l)
Im- (+ m or p)
InIr (+ r)
NonUn-

dishonest
illegal
impossible
indirect
irregular
Non-alcoholic
Uncomfortable

Like
Certain
comfortable
tidy
Satisfied
Necessary
patient
polite

Usual
Relevant
Visible
Clear
Correct
Friendly
Happy
obedient

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VERBS
Advise
Arrive

NOUNS

Belief
Bore
Breathe
Compete
Complain
Confess
Criticize
Decision
Delivery
Destruction
Discover
Divide
Employ
Encourage
Engage
Entrance
Explain
Fitness
Fright
Gift
Knowledge
Lose
Live
Marry
Murder
Oppose
Pleasure
Pollution
Practice
Relaxation
Satisfaction
Sight
Robbery
Sale
Shopping
Solve
Speech
Suggest
Suspicion
Think
Threat
Understand
Usage
imagine
Appear
Employ
type
examination

WORD FORMATION
NOUNS ADJECTIVES
Cheer
Salt
Shame
Long
Wide
Peaceful
Hunger
Innocent
Dirty
Foggy
Lucky
Good
Active
Friend
Accuracy
Polite
Religion
Long
High
Deep
Personal
Tolerant
Regular
sensibleness
sensitivity
Reason
strong
loudness
cruel
fashionable
glamour
comfort
colour
success
romance
extravagance
kind
Boredom
Grass
noise
Sun
Beautiful
Pain
surprise
Young
Real
Rain
Freedom
wisdom
sad

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OPPOSITES
beautiful
Bitter
Certain
Clean
Correct
Coward
Empty
Exciting
Expensive
Far
Fat
foggy
Good
Happy
Hard
Heavy
Hopeful
Ill
Innocent
legible
Long
Low
noisy
Possible
Right
Slow
Strong
Sure
Tall
Thick
Tight
Valid
violent
Well
Wet
Wide
Wise
young
Black
Rude
Easy
nice
intelligent
cold
calm
open
Dark
New
Late
Deep

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