Wo: wor often come in families. You c el Families an Ukr «an expand your vocabulary by becoming familiar with these dl this can also enable you to become a more fluent speaker and writer of English. ow all the possible words within a word family, you can express yourselfina wider range Bk: For example, if you know the verb and the noun forms related to the adjective boring, Say t class was really boring. ally bored in that class. jass was a real bore. 3 for paying attention to word families is that for some exams you have In the list below, the words printed in bold are words that are very common and important to st The other words in the same row are words in the same family, often formed with prefixes and suffixes. Sometimes they are just a different part of speech, for example anger, which is a Noun and a verb). All the words in this list have entties in the dictionary except for some begin- gus with un-,im-,in- orir-,or ending with -ly or -ily, ‘ometimes words in a word family group, where the meaning is always regular, can have meanings that are very different from others in the 80 you should always check in the dictionary ifyou are not sure of the meaning, — [sects seers +] enable, disable able, unable, disabled ably accept accept accplable,unaceplabl accepted acceptably unacceptably ; acciden accidentally accuracy, inaccuracy accurate, inaccurate accurately, inaccurately accusation, the accused, accuser accuse accusing accusingly achievement, achiever achieve achievable Act, action, inaction, interaction, act, action acting reaction, transaction activity, inactivity activate Active, inactive, interactive, proactive actively addition add additional additionally admiration, admirer admire admirable admirably advantage, disadvantage advantageous, disadvantaged, advantageously : advantaged advertisement, advertiser, advertise advertising advice, adviser advise advisable, inadvisable, advisory advisedly agreement, disagreement agree, disagree agreeable agreeably aim 7 — aimlessly mnccement aze amazed, amazing amazingly ae anger angry angrily announcement, announcer announce unannounced unannounced appearance, disappearance, appear, disappear reappearance reappear applicant, application apply, reapply applicable, applied appreciation appreciate appreciable, appreciative appreciatively, appreciably approval, disapproval approve, disapprove approving, disapproving approvingly approximation approximate approximate approximately argument argue arguable, argumentative arguably arrangement, rearrangement arrange, rearrange art, artist, artistry artistic, arty artistically shame shame ashamed, unashamed, shameful, shamefully, shamelessly shameless at it attach, detach attached, unattached, detachable, ttachmen| rea a inter-attack, attacker attack, counter-attack ae nin attend attentive, inattentive attentively attraction, attractiveness attract attractive, unattractive attractivelyWORD FAMILIES (EH48] authority, authorization availability avoidance awareness base, the basics, basis bearer beat, beating beauty, beautician beginner, beginning behaviour/US behavior, misbehaviour/US misbehavior belief, dsbeliet block. blockage blood, bleeding the boil, boiler bore, boredom break, breakage, outbreak breath, breather, breathing brother, brotherhood build, builder, bulding burn, burner burial calculation, calculator calm, calmness capability celebration, celebrity centre/US center, centralization, decentralization certainty, uncertainty challenge, challenger change, unchanged, changing character, characteristic, characterization chemical, chemist, chemistry ditcle, semicircle, Greulation cleaner, cleaning, cleanliness larity, dearance, clearing close, ciosure closeness dlothes, clothing callection, collector colour/U5 color colouring/US coloring combination, combine comfort, discomfort commitment communication, communicator comparison comparative competition, competitor completion, incompleteness ‘complication ‘computer, computing computerization concentration conclusion condition, precondition, conditioner, conditioning confidence confirmation confusion connection unconnected authorize avoid base bear beat beautify begin behave, misbehave belleve, disbelieve block, unblock bleed boll bore break breathe build, rebuild burn bury calculate calm care celebrate centre/US center, decentralize, centralize ascertain challenge change characterize circle, circulate clean lear close clothe collect colour/US color combine comfort commit, communicate compare compete complete complicate computerize concentrate ‘concern conclude condition contide conte confuse connect, disconnect authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, unauthorized available, unavailable avoidable, unavoidable aware, unaware baseless, basic bearable, unbearable unbeatable, unbeaten beautiful behavioural/US behavioral authoritatively unavoidably unawares basically beautifully believable, disbelieving, unbelievable unbelievably blocked, unblocked bloodless, bloody boiling bored, boring broken, unbreakable, unbroken breathless, breathy brotherly burning, burnt buried incalculable, calculated, calculating alm capable, incapable careful, careless, caring, uncaring celebrated, celebratory central, centralized certain, uncertain challenging changeable, interchangeable, characteristic, uncharacteristic chemical circular clean, unclean, clear, unciear closed, closing, close dlothed, unclothed collected, collective coloured/US colored, discoloured/US discolored, colourful/US colorful, ccolourless/US colorless combined comfortable, uncomfortable, comforting noncommittal, committed ‘communicative, uncommunicative comparable, incomparable, competitive, uncompetitive ‘complete, incomplete ‘complicated, uncomplicated concentrated concerned, unconcerned concluding, conclusive, inconclusive conditional, unconditional confident, confidential confirmed, unconfirmed confused, confusing Connected, disconnected, boringly breathlessly calmly capably catefully, carelessly centrally certainly, uncertainly characteristcally chemically cleanly ‘dear, clearly close, dosely collectively colourfully/US colorfully ‘comparatively competitively completely, incompletely conclusively tondltionaly orally confidently confident ‘confusinglyRntinuation, continuity ‘eohtribution, contributor ‘control, controller continue, contribute controt inconvenience convince king cook cool correct count, recount cover, uncover Create, recreate incriminate iticize crowd critic, erticism crowd, overcrowding cruelty ery, outcry te culture, subculture cure ei custom, customer, customs accustom cut, cutting cut undercut damage, damages da danger endanger dare, daring dare dark, darkness darken date date, predate day, midday dead, death deaden deal, dealer, dealings deal Gicert deceiver deception fective decision, indecision decide decoration, decorator decorate deep, depth deepen defeat, defeatism, defeatist defeat defence/Us defense, defend defendant, defender definition define demand, demands demand democracy, democrat demonstration, demonstrator demonstrate nial deny dependant, dependence, depend independence, dependency description describe desire desire destroyer, destruction destroy determination, determiner determine developer, development, develop, redevelop Aterence ndiference, citer, differentiate di dren cio, oe directions, director disagreement disagree Sisappointment disappoint disaster dbscipine Sisciptinarian, discipline a inv discovery Creed qitubance Side, subdvide Gide. division, subdivision vide, “ orcs, divorcee Co ae Consider, reconsider discontinue WORD ramities CONSCIOUS, subconscious unconscious CORSClOUS!y unconsciously consequent, consequently considerat Considerately contributory controlling, uncontrollable convenient, inconvenient convinced, convincing. unconvincing Cooked, uncooked cool continually, continuously ‘uncontrollaby conveniently convincingly coolly correct, incorrect, corrective correctly, incomectly cngelable, uncountable, countless undercover, uncovered undercover Creative, uncreative Creatively Criminal. incriminating criminally critical, uncritical critically Crowded, overcrowded cruel cruelly crying cultural, cultured culturally cured, incurable customary customarily cutting damaging, undamaged endangered, dangerous dangerously daring daringly dark, darkened, darkening darkly dated, outdated daily daily dead, deadly, deathly deadly, deathly deceitful, deceptive deceptively decided, undecided, decisive, decidedly, decisively indecisive indecsively decorative decoratively deep, deepening deeply undefeated, defeatist defenceless/US defenseless, defensively Indefensible, defensive definite, indefinite definitely, indefinitely demanding, undemanding democratic, undemocratic democratically demonstrable, demonstrative demonstrably undeniable undeniably dependable, dependent, dependably, independent independently describable, indescribable, descriptively descriptive, nondescript desirable, undesirable, desired undesired ed Indestructible, destructive lestructve determined, predetermined, determinedly Indeterminate ‘developed, undeveloped, developing different, indifferent ‘itorentiy direct, indirect directly, indirectly disagreeable disagrecably dlnappolnted, appointing cesoponingy disastrous a disciplinary, discipined, undisciplined distantly sued undisturbed, disturbing disturbingly divided, undivided, divisible, divisive divorced