WORD FORMATION-HSG 10 – HANDOUT

EXERCISE 1: Give the correct form of the words in brackets to complete the following sentences. (25
points)
1. I am ____allergic______to peanuts so I have to be very careful what I eat. ALLERGY
2. In particular, parents are afraid of changes in their children’s _personality______ PERSON
3. These clothes are attractive but entirely ___impractical_____ . PRACTICE
4. Al is a manager at the local water ____works_______ . WORK
5. I was really impressed by the ___fitness_______levels of all the athletes . FIT
6.The boy was very violent and his parents found him ___unmanageable_____ . MANAGE
7. Jim is one of the most __outspoken______ members of the committee. SPEAK
8.You can’t enjoy the ____beneficial_______ effects without going under the knife, can you? BENEFIT
9.We couldn’t have built this new train without the ___dedication______and expertise of the
entire workforce DEDICATE
10. All the heavy _____machinery______in the factory has been manufactured on the site MACHINE
EXERCISE 2:
1. The government’s policy on arms is shocking. It is quite (defend)
2. Despite going to German classes twice a week, I don’t feel I’m making much _____________with the
language. (head)
3. John always knows how to the party with his jokes. (lively)
4. The fire-prevention system is by any small increase in temperature. (active)
5. The government’s approach has brought criticism. (compromise)
6. Your presence has enriched our lives_______________________(measure).
7. She won the first prize in the contest due to her ___________________ (persuade)
8. All must be received before July 20th 2007. (apply)
The women employed in the mines were _______young and married.(dominance)
9. The outcome of the election is a conclusion. (go)
EXERCISE 3:
1.When you travel into space, you can eat and drink in ______. (WEIGHT)
2.How do you ________ the real painting from the fake one ? (DIFFERENT)
3. He __________and fell into the water. (BALANCE)
4.All the ________from the last lecture were not allowed to attend (ABSENCE)
the interview for the coming project.
5.Ann _______ and picked up her riding hat. (MOUNT)
6. Jim is very disorganized and not very ________ . (BUSINESS)
7. You look rather _______ . Are you worried about something? (OCCUPY)
8.He was the only student to be awarded the special prize in reciting poetry_______ (Compete)
9.He is_______ to have completed all his coursework by next week. (Plan)
10.If you felt _______ ,you should have given me a ring(lone)
EXERCISE 4:
1. The new manager produced a(n) ………….inventory of all the items found in the shop, ranging from
the tiny pin to the gigantic industrial washing machine. COMPREHEND
2. During the war, the prices of food were …………. . ASTRONOMY
3. Only a(n) ………….proportion of the club’s members objected to the proposal, so the committee went
ahead with their plan. SIGNIFY
4. I don’t have time to read the ………….version of the book, so I’ll just buy the condensed version.
ABRIDGE
5. The little boy ran straight into the ………….arms of his father. STRETCH
6. A(n) ………….is one who tends to take the worse view, or expect the worst outcome. PESSIMISM
7. A(n) ………….is adverse to rapid change. CONSERVE
8. Between 1860 and 1900 the country had a number of revolutions and uprisings. It was a time of
…………. .STABLE
9. She sat in terrible ………….on the hard chair for over an hour. COMFORT
10. To improve his qualifications, he’s taking a course in ………….skills. MANAGE
EXERCISE 5:
Learning a foreign language
Most people have the ability to learn a foreign language. They simply need constant (1.ENCOURAGE)
…………..in order to overcome their fears. (2.CONVERSE) ………….. seems to be the most difficult aspect
for some students, while for others it is the (3.COMPREHEND) ………….. of the spoken words. This feeling
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is not (4.EXCLUDE) …………..to those who feel least (5.CONFIDENCE) ………….., as even the most
outgoing students are sometimes (6.RELUCTANCE) ………….. to speak. One reason for this reluctance may
be (7.SHY) ………….. Students may be (8.SHAME) ………….. of their accent. We could say that the root of
this problem might be the student’s desire for (9.PERFECT) ………….. but no one can have perfect
(10.PRONOUNCE) ………….. without practice.
EXERCISE 6:
1. People must have ____responsibility______for the air pollution. (RESPONSIBLE)
2. He has a miraculous_____strenght_________. (STRONG)
3. You ‘ll have to use your___judgement ______ and do what seems best. (JUDGE)
4. He had no______choice________but to leave. (CHOOSE)
5. Please let me go. I love___freedom__________. (FREE)
6. A letter should always end with the writer ‘s____signature________. (SIGN)
7. He doesn’t agree with the____belief_____that there is life on the Mars (BELIEVE)
8. We listened to the news with a______mixture________of surprise and horror. (MIX)
9. Her book has grown in_____popularity _____ recently. (POPULAR)
10. I came to the_____conclusion ____that he had been lying. (CONCLUDE)
EXERCISE 7:
1/ He suffers from a (nerve) __nervous_____ disorder.
2/ I worry about the (destruct) __destructive_____ effect that violent films may have on children.
3/ (Mystery) _Mysteriously______, the light came on, although no one was near the switch.
4/ The river froze to a (deep) __depth_____ of over a meter.
5/ Children are encouraged to take an (investigate) __investigative_____ approach to learning.
6/ Disneyworld is one of Florida's major (tour) __tourist_____ attractions.
7/ Tyler is remarkably (world) __worldly_____-wise for such a young girl.
8/ He never goes out without his security men in (attend) _attendance______.
9/ There's not enough (interact) __interaction_____ between the management and the workers.
10/ Commodity prices can be a useful (indicate) __indication_____ of inflation, he claimed.
EXERCISE 8:
1. She claimed ___unemployment_____benefit for over six months. (EMPLOY)
2. Tax ___evasion_____is one of the biggest problems that face the new country. (EVADE)
3. The police searched the house___systematically_____. (SYSTEM)
4. He is a __highly______-paid senior executive. (HIGH)
5. The ___blockade_____of the most important port of the country eliminated all trade. (BLOCK)
6. The ____monetary____system of some countries used to be based on gold. (MONEY)
7. He recovered from his injuries in the ___naval_____hospital (NAVY)
8. Is it possible to remove the smell from the books that have been in __storage_____for such a long time?
(STORE)
9. Many people are interested in job ___satisfaction____more than in earning large amount of money
(SATISFY).
10. The anti-doping association believes that all sports must be free of drug __abuse______. (USE)
EXERCISE 9:
Many (1.RESEARCH) __researchers_____ believe that apes can communicate with human beings.
Investigations made at several laboratories in the United States and elsewhere indicate that chimpanzees and
gorillas are capable of understanding language and line using (2. LANGUAGE) __linguistic______ responses
at the level of a four – year – old child. Washoe, an adult chimpanzee who was raised as if she were a deaf
child, can translate words she hears into American Sign Language. Loko, a 400-pound lowland gorilla, is
claimed to have understood a poem (3. WRITE) ___written_____ about her. Tests of Koko’s auditory
comprehension show that she is able to make discriminations between such words as “funny”, “money”, and
“bunny”.
The (4.SCIENCE) _scientists_____ at the forefront of this research admit that their work has been severely
criticized. The skeptics in general claim that apes’ language (5. BEHAVE) _behavior_______ is merely
imitative. For this behavior to be called “language”, it must also be (6. COMMUNICATE)
___communicative_____. The proponents of ape language counter that those who deny the (7. VALID)
____validity____ of this research have never worked with apes. They point out that new fields of investigation
always create (8. CONTROVERSIAL) ____controversy____. They add that (9. HUMAN)
__subhuman______ primates have not been taught to speak, however, because the outer layer of their brain
hemispheres is not (10. SUFFICIENT) ___sufficiently____refined.
EXERCISE 10:
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1. They will announce the __arrival___ of the President soon. ARRIVE
2. __Photography___ is a very popular hobby. PHOTOGRAPH
3. Fashion is a very __competitive___ industry. COMPETE
4. He was turned down for the job because he was not __qualified___. QUALIFY
5. To my _astonishment____, Bill failed the exam. ASTONISH
6. All the staff wish the boss a happy _retirement____. RETIRE
7. Those fruit are __poisonous___. Don’t eat them. POISON
8. This matter is _confidential____. You can’t tell anyone. CONFIDENCE
9. Recently health foods have increased in _popularity____. POPULAR
10. She went to the library to borrow some __reference___ books. REFER