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42 Cards in this Set
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-able, -ible
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capable of (adjective suffix)
portable - able to be carried legible - able to be read |
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-ade
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denotes an action or a product of an action
lemonade - brigade - |
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-ado
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person or group participating in an action
commando - tornado - desperado - |
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-age
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forms nouns of act, process, funtion, condition, (belonging to, related to)
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-holic
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an addict
alcoholic - workaholic - chocoholic - shopaholic - |
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-algia
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to feel pain
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-ant, -ent (or -ance, -ence)
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denoting quality or state, full of
eloquent - effective speech suppliant - pleader (person full of requests) verdant - green absent(absence) convergence - diligence - |
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-archy
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rule
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-ard
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often forming the second element in personal names, used as an intensifier, used as pejorative element in common nouns,
bastard - canard - coward - drunkard - buzzard - |
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-ary
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connected with, pertaining to
dictionary - book pertaining to words honorary - pertaining to honor luminary - celestial body |
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-ate
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to make (verb suffix)
consecrate - to make holy enervate - to make weary mitigate - to make less severe (nouns) primate senate desolate (adjectives) separate moderate seperate |
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-ation
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that which is (noun suffix)
exasperation - irritation irritation - annoyance |
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-er, -or
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person who (noun suffix)
mutineer - person who rebels lecher - person who lusts censor - person who deletes improper remarks actor - person who acts teacher - person who teaches driver - person who drives |
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-escent
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becoming (adjective suffix)
evanescent - tending to vanish pubescent - arriving at puberty |
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-fic
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causing, doing (adjective suffix)
terrific - arousing great fear soporific - causing sleep |
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-fy
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to make (verb suffix)
magnify - enlarge petrify - turn to stone |
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-iferous
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producing, bearing (adjective suffix)
pestiferous - carrying disease vociferous - bearing a loud voice |
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-il, -ile
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pertaining to, capable of (adjective suffix)
puerile - pertaining to a child civil - polite |
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-ism
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the belief in
monotheism - belief in one god fanacticism - excessive zeal; exteme belief pacifism - terrorism - socialism - communism - |
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-ist
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dealer, doer (one who believes in)
realist - one who is realistic artist - one who deals with art pacifist - terrorist - socialist - |
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-ity
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state of being (noun suffix)
credulity - state of being unduly willing to believe sagacity - state of wisdom |
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-ive
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like (adjective suffix)
quantitative - concern with quantity effusive - gushing |
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-ize, -ise
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to make (verb suffix)
harmonize - make harmonious enfranchise - make free or set free |
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-oid
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resembling, like-shaped
ovoid - like an egg anthropoid - resembling a human being spheroid - resembling a sphere asteroid - |
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-ose
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full of (adjective suffix)
verbose - full of words |
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-osis
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condition (noun suffix)
psychosis - diseased mental condition hypnosis - condition of induced sleep |
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-ous
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full of (adjective suffix)
nauseous - full of nausea ludicrous - foolish |
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-tude
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state of (noun)
fortitude - state of strength certitude - state of sureness I lack certitude |
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-agog, -agogue
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leader
demagogue - pedagogue - |
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-cide
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kill(ing)
patricide - herbicide - suicide - |
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-ectomy
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cutting
appendectomy - splenectomy - |
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-ia, -y
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act, state
amnesia - mania - democracy - government ruled by the people anarchy - obstinacy - stubbornness |
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-ic, -tic, -ical, -ac
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having to do with
anthropomorphic - dramatic - biblical - cardiac - |
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-ics
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things having to do with
optics - physics - |
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-isk, -iscus
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small
asterisk - a little star |
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-ite
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one connected with
meterorite - polite - cosmopolite - |
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-logy
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study of
geology - etymology - cardiology - |
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-phobia
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fear of
photophobia - acrophobia - claustrophobia - agoraphobia - |
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-sis
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act, state, condition of
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acious
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full of
audacious-full of daring |
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al
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pertaining to
logical-pertaining to logic |
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-cy
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state of being (noun)
democracy-state of being governed by the people obstinacy-stubborness |
