Common Suffixes (Cram)

Question 1

able, ible

Answer 1

capable of, subject to, prone to; worthy of, deserving of (impeccable, incorrigible, irrefutable, mutable, feasible, affable, gullible, laudable, reprehensible, culpable)

Question 2

ac

Answer 2

relating to; person affected with (ammoniac, celiac, maniac, cardiac, hypochondriac)

Question 3

age

Answer 3

relationship; condition; action or result; place (parentage, bondage, carage, anchorage)

Question 4

al

Answer 4

of, pertaining to; the act of (logical, ephemeral, equivocal, glacial, peripheral, polemical, prodigal, provincial, rhetorical, satirical, superficial, terrestrial, whimsical, denial, rehearsal)

Question 5

an, ian

Answer 5

belonging to, related to, characteristic of, resembling, one that is (canadian, freudian, reptilian, civilian, antediluvian, subterranean, authoritarian, partisan, artisan)

Question 6

ance, ence

Answer 6

action or process; state of being (emergence, dependence, arrogance, compliance, vigilance, exuberance, impudence, nonchalance, opulence, quiescence, reticence)

Question 7

ant, ent

Answer 7

causing or performing something; state of being; one who does or undergoes (document, flagrant, ardent, benevolent, indifferent, inherent, munificent, strident, virulent, contestant, pedant)

Question 8

ar, ary

Answer 8

relating to; connected to (solar, polar, jocular, arbitrary, exemplary, mercenary, centenary)

Question 9

ate

Answer 9

act upon; having; characterized by (obliterate, mitigate, deprecate, emulate, debilitate, extricate, facilitate, instigate, perpetuate, truncate, placate, intimidate, repudiate, ornate, innate, articulate)

Question 10

cy

Answer 10

state of being; quality (ascendancy, bankruptcy, lunacy, dependency, complacency)

Question 11

dom

Answer 11

domain; rank; state of being; collective office (fiefdom, boredom, martyrdom, officialdom)

Question 12

eer, er, or

Answer 12

person who does something (auctioneer, engineer, contender, director, executor, orator)

Question 13

ery

Answer 13

a place for; the act of; state of; qualities of (bakery, bribery, chicanery, slavery, snobbery)

Question 14

escent

Answer 14

becoming; beginning to be; characterized by (crescent, nascent, evanescent, phosphorescent)

Question 15

ferous

Answer 15

producing; carrying (coniferous, vociferous, aquiferous, calciferous, carboniferous)

Question 16

fic

Answer 16

making; causing (terrific, horrific, beatific, prolific, soporific, benefic, malefic)

Question 17

fy

Answer 17

make; cause to become (falsify, magnify, exemplify, ratify, rectify, personify, purify, mortify)

Question 18

ia

Answer 18

abnormal condition; relating to (anorexia, toxemia, septicemia, memorabilia, personalia)

Question 19

ial

Answer 19

relating to; characterized by (colloquial, glacial, terrestrial, inconsequential, superficial, cordial)

Question 20

ic

Answer 20

having to do with; one characterized by (cosmic, hedonistic, caustic, aesthetic, altruistic, archaic, ascetic, bombastic, cryptic, dogmatic, eclectic, ironic, soporific, sporadic, lunatic, heretic)

Question 21

ide

Answer 21

group of related chemical compounds; binary compounds; chemical element with properties that are similar to another (diglyceride, monosaccharide, sodium chloride, potassium bromide, boride)

Question 22

il, ile

Answer 22

pertaining to; capable of being (puerile, ductile, infantile, senile, servile, tensile, versatile)

Question 23

ine

Answer 23

having the nature of; relating to; resembling; made of; chemical substance (divine, feline, marine, leonine, saturnine, opaline, crystalline, tourmaline, incarnadine, gasoline)

Question 24

ion, tion, ation

Answer 24

the result of (criterion, oblivion, limitation, adulation, affirmation, apprehension, aversion, conviction, degradation, disinclination, innovation, sanction, seclusion)

Question 25

ise, ize

Answer 25

make; become like (surmise, maximize, scrutinize, vaporize, hypothesize, cauterize)

Question 26

ism

Answer 26

belief; doctrine; devotion to; act of (ethnocentrism, egotism, fanaticism, criticism, witticism)

Question 27

ist

Answer 27

one who does something; one who believes or adheres to; an expert (opportunist, cartoonist, ventriloquist, altruist, pacifist, nihilist, prohibitionist, linguist, geologist, psychiatrist, scientist)

Question 28

ite

Answer 28

make, do; inhabitant or native of; descendant of; adherent of (ignite, israelite, luddite)

Question 29

itis

Answer 29

inflammatory disease (dermatitis, phlebitis, appendicitis, tendonitis, osteoarthritis)

Question 30

ity, ty

Answer 30

state of; quality (animosity, paucity, reality, uniformity, similarity, enmity, duplicity, depravity, insularity, notoriety, novelty, integrity, virility, tenacity, veracity)

Question 31

ive

Answer 31

tending toward an action; belonging; quality of (argumentative, introspective, collective, comprehensive, derivative, elusive, exhaustive, furtive, inclusive)

Question 32

let

Answer 32

small; small object worn on the body (eaglet, islet, piglet, ringlet, amulet, rivulet, pamphlet)

Question 33

logy, ology

Answer 33

expression; theory; science or study of (eulogy, phraseology, ideology, geology)

Question 34

ly

Answer 34

like; to the extent of, recurring at specified intervals; in a specified way (miserly, daily, slowly)

Question 35

ment

Answer 35

an act; state; means (entertainment, admonishment, abatement, detachment, instrument)

Question 36

oid

Answer 36

resembling; relating to (android, humanoid, planetoid, asteroid, spheroid, paranoid)

Question 37

or

Answer 37

a person or thing that does something; a quality or condition (inspector, progenitor, incisor)

Question 38

ory

Answer 38

relating to; characterized by; a placed used for (obligatory, conciliatory, cursory, observatory)

Question 39

ose

Answer 39

full of; characterized by; a form of sugar (verbose, lachrymose, jocose, sucrose, dextrose)

Question 40

osis

Answer 40

condition; disease (apotheosis, metamorphosis, morphosis, apoptosis, neurosis, psychosis)

Question 41

ous

Answer 41

full of, characterized by (assiduous, autonomous, capricious, contentious, erroneous, fastidious, gregarious, ingenious, innocuous, nefarious, pretentious, querulous, raucous, scrupulous)

Question 42

tude

Answer 42

state of (magnitude, solitude, solicitude, verisimilitude, lassitude, pulchritude, turpitude)