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15 Cards in this Set
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-able -ible |
able to be X-ed Ex: thinkable, desirable, inconceivable, frangible, feasible |
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-al -ial -ile |
relating to X Ex: trivial, critical, labile, ductile, versatile |
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-ance -ancy -ence -ency |
state or process of doing X or being X ex: intelligence, flippancy, decadence, exorbitance, despondency |
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-ant -ent |
doing X ex: accordant, accountant, congizant, different, intransigent (unwilling to change view or agree to something), fervent |
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-ar -ary |
related to X ex: solar, stellar, polar |
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-ate (usually pronounced like "ate") -ite |
do X ex: interrogate, pervaricate (to speak/act in an evasive way), mutate, ingnite, expedite |
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-ate (usually pronounced like "it") -ite |
formed by doing X or related to doing X ex: aggregate, insubordinate, prerequisite, requisite |
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-dom |
state of being X or condition related to X ex: freedom, fiefdom (estate, domage of a feudal lord/ organization or real estage owned, controled by one dominate person or group), wisdom |
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-er -or |
doer of X ex: speaker, runner, wanderer |
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-fic |
making into X or causing X ex: horrific, beatific (blissfully happy), prolific (plentiful), soporific (tending/drug induces sleep). |
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-fy -ify |
making into X or causing X ex: magnify, deify (worship as a god), indemnify (compensate, secure against legal responsibility of ones actions), ossify (turn into bone, cease to develop, straight, rigid), reify (make *something abstract* more concrete or real) |
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-ful |
filled with X bountiful, beautiful, plentiful, fretful, artful |
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-ic -iac |
relating to X manic, maniac, aseptic, bombastic (high-sounding but with little meaning; inflated.) |
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-ification |
process of making X desertification, ramification, beautification, edification |
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-ine |
relating to X saturnine (gloomy in person or place, slow manner), marine, saline (solution with Na), clandestine (secrecy or concealment, especially for purposesof subversion or deception; private) |