Word formation

1. adorn – to make someone/something more attractive. adorn, adorned, adorning, adornment

2. whim – a sudden wish, desire, a capricious or eccentric idea
on a whim whimsical, whimsicality, whimsically, whimsicalness
3. slum - a densely populated usually urban area marked by crowding, run-down housing,
poverty,and social disorganization
slummer, (go) slumming, slummy, slummed, slumdog – a very poor person, child who lives
4. element – elemental, elementary, elementar (easy, basic), elementarily,
5. leaf – leafed (look through a book), leafing, leafless, leaflike, leafy (being covered with leaves),
overleaf (on or to the other side of a page), interleaf (a blank leaf inserted between the leaves of
a book ),
6. novel – novella (short novel), novelization 9converting sth into the form of a novel), novelty
(freshness), novelist, novelistic
7. wail – wailing, wailer, wailed, bewail (regret strongly),
8. isolate – isolation, isolationist, isolationism
9. timpani üstdob timpanist
10. treason – (hazaárulás ) – treasonist, treasonable, treasonably, treasonous, treasonableness,
outreason
11. stain – stainless steel (rozsdamentes acél) stainer, staining, stainable
12. hallucinate – hallucinatory, hallucination, hallucinator, hallucinogenic, hallucinogen
13. exult (at/over, in) – exultation, exultant, exulting, exulted, exultantly, exultingly
14. custody – custodial, non-custody, non-custodial
15. resolute (hat’rozott) – resolutely, resoluteness, resolution, irresolute, irresolutely,
irresoluteness, irresolution
16. rhetoric – rhetorician, rhetorical, rethorically, rhetorics
17. rhyme – rhymer, rhymeless, rhymed, rhymester
18. grace – graced, graceful, gracefully, gracefulness, gracious, graciously, graciousness, ungracious,
ungraciously, ungraciousness, ungraceful (lacking grace), disgrace (a state of dishonor, shame)
19. rest – restless, restlessly, restive, restful, restfully, restfulness
20. lenient – leniency
21. peril – perilous, perilously, perilousness, imperil veszelyztet, imperiled, – at your peril – saját
felelőségedre
22. zeal – buzgalom - zealot (fanatikus), zealous, zealously, zealotry (fanatizmus), zealotism,
zealotist, unzealous, zealousness
23. surmount – legyőz, leküzd, felül kerekedik, (in)surmountable, unsurmountable, surmounting, to
surmount the temptation
24. repent – megbán, sajnál, repentant, repenting (bánatos), repentable, repentance, repentingly,
unrepented, unrepentant,
25. plausible – plausibility, plausibly, implausible
26. contempt – megvetés lenézés contemptuous, contemptuously, contemptible (megvetendő),
contemptibility, contemptuousness
27. bankrupt – bankruptcy
28. mawkish - érzelgő, nyájas, mawkishness
29. drear kietlen, sivár dreariness, drearily, dreary, drear,

1. The questions in the test were not so ……….. as they were supposed to be. ELEMENT
2. The entrance of the building has little ………. . ADORN
3. The policy of not becoming involved in the affairs of other countries is called ……. ISOLATE
4. It`s hard to predict voters`……WHIM
5. I was impressed by the ………….decorations. WHIM
6. This contemporary author is quite famous for his …….. style NOVEL
7. We might as well just drive to some ………….motel right now. SLUM
8. The baby`s ………….. kept his parents awake all night. WAIL
9. The people of Rio were dancing ………. In the streets. EXULT
10. This knife is of poor quality as it is not made of …………….. steel STAIN
11. We all know that his deed can be qualified as ……..offence TREASON
12. He`ll never forget the trip to the caves as it was quite a …….. experience. HALLUCINATE
13. The parents were given a …………………. sentence for the crime in light of their previous clean
record (büntetlen előélet) CUSTODY
14. She came ………….close to getting herself killed in her attempt to break the world record. PERIL
15. Conditions for participation in the contest are enumerated …… LEAF
16. She didn`t impress him with her ……….. MAWKISH
17. Each police department ………..guarded its information. ZEAL
18. The person who plays the timpani is called ……. TIMPANI
19. But for the ……… of the referee, the player would have been sent off. LENIENT
20. Our company is facing ……… BANKRUPT
21. A ……… is a term used to describe a writer of bad poems. RHYME
22. He never achieved anything big in his life because of his constant …….. RESOLUTE
23. This small country is faced with an ……………. debt.
24. When is the ………….. season for the birds. MATE
25. The person skilled and trained in rhetoric is called a …………… RHETORIC
26. All his friends blamed him for his ………… cowardice. CONTEMPT
27. The ……………… of her movements impressed the audience, at which point they burst into
applause. GRACE
28. The audience was becoming ………… as they waited for the performance to begin. REST
29. The police are discussing the ………of her alibi. PLAUSIBLE
30. The little boy was not in the least …….. after what he had done. REPENT
Key: elementary, adornment, ISOLATIONISM, whims, whimsical, novelistic, slummy, wailing, exultantly,
stainless, treasonable, hallucinatory, non-custodial, perilously, overleaf, mawkishness, zealously,
timpanist, leniency, bankruptcy, rhymester, irresolution, insurmountable, mating, rhetorician,
contemptible, gracefulness, restive, plausibility, repentant