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ify / -fy (verb)

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: make, cause ( makes the word a verb )

  • amplify
  • falsify
  • terrify
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-ward

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: specific direction

  • backward
  • eastward
  • homeward
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-able (adj)

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: able to be

  • excitable
  • **portable **
  • preventable
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**-ac **

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**: pertaining to **

  • cardica
  • hemophiliac
  • maniac
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-acity (-ocity) (noun)

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**: quality of **

  • perspicacity
  • sagacity
  • velocity
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-ade

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: act, action or process, product

  • blockadge
  • cavalcade
  • promenade
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-age (noun)

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**: action of, process of, colllection of, amount of **

  • passage
  • pilgrimage
  • voyage
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-aholic (-oholic)

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**: one with an obsession for **

  • workaholic
  • shopaholic
  • alcoholic
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-al (adj) or (noun)

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**: having the form or character of **

  • bacterial
  • theatrical
  • natural
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-algia (noun)

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: pain

  • neuralgia
  • nostalgia
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-an (-ian), (adj)

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: native of, pertaining of, resembling, belonging to

  • American
  • Martian
  • Bostonian
  • academian
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-ance, -ancy (noun)

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: state, action, process, state, quality

  • importace
  • assistance
  • allowance
  • defiance
  • buoyancy
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-ant (adj)

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**: inclined to, tending to **

  • brilliant
  • defiant
  • vigilant
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-ant (noun)

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: performing, agent, condition

  • applicant
  • immigrant
  • sevant
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-ar (adj)

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: of relating to, being

  • lunar
  • molecular
  • solar
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-ar (noun)

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**: a person who **

  • beggar
  • burglar
  • liar
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-ard (noun)

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: a person who does an action

  • coward
  • sluggard
  • wizard
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-arian (noun)

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: a person who

  • disciplinarian
  • vegetarian
  • librarian
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-arium (orium)

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**: a place for **

  • terrarium
  • aquarium
  • solarum
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-ary , -ery (noun) or (adj)

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**: of or relating to **

  • literary
  • military
  • budgetary
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-ate (adj)

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**: state or quality of **

  • affectionate
  • desolate
  • obstinate
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-ate (verb),(noun),(adj)

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**:having, process, apperance, to act like **

make the word a verb (different pronunciation)

  • activate
  • perservative
  • talkative
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-ation (noun)

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: action or process

  • creation
  • narration
  • emancipation
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-ative (adj)

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**: tending to **

  • creative
  • preservative
  • talkative
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-cide

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: act of killing

  • homicide
  • suicide
  • genocide
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-cracy

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: rule, government, power

  • bureacracy
  • aristocracy
  • theocracy
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-crat (noun)

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: someone who has power

  • aristocrat
  • bureacrat
  • technocrat
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-cule, -ling (noun) (adj)

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: very small quality, young, connected, diminutive (making something small)

  • molecule
  • underling
  • duckling
  • hireling
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-cy (noun)

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: action, function, condition, rank

  • prophecy
  • accuracy
  • normalcy
  • captaincy
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-cycle (noun)

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: circle, wheel

  • bicycle
  • recycle
  • tricycle
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-dom (noun)

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: condition of, state, realm, condition, or rank

  • boredom
  • freedom
  • wisdom
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-dox

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: belief, praise

  • orthdox
  • paradox
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-ectomy

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**: surgical removal of **

  • appendectomy
  • hysterectomy
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-ed

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: past tense

  • called
  • hammered
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-ee (noun)

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: one who receives, possesses, resembles, or performs the action

  • nomiee
  • employee
  • devotee
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-eer

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: associated with / engagged in

  • engineer
  • volunteer
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-emia

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: blood condition

  • anemia
  • hypoglycemia
  • leukemia
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-en (verb), (adj)

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: made of, to make as, to cause, similar to

  • awaken
  • fasten
  • strenthen
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-ence (noun)

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: the state or condition, action

  • absence
  • dependence
  • negligence
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-ency (noun)

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: condition or quality

  • clemency
  • dependency
  • efficiency
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-ent

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: inclined to performing / causing, or one who performs / causes

  • competent
  • correspondent
  • absorbent
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-er

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: a person who does an action

  • announcer
  • barber
  • teacher
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-er (noun)

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: action or process

  • flutter
  • ponder
  • stutter
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-er (adj)

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: more

  • bigger
  • faster
  • happier
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-ern

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**: state or quality of **

  • eastern
  • northern
  • western
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-escence

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: state or process

  • adolescence
  • convalescence
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-ese

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: relating to a place

  • Chinese
  • Congolese
  • Vietnamese
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-esque

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**: in the style of **

  • Kafkaesque
  • grotesque
  • burlesque
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-ess

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: female

  • actress
  • heiress
  • lioness
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-est

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: most

  • funniest
  • hottest
  • silliest
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-etic (adj)

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: relating to ( makes the word an adj )

  • athletic
  • energetic
  • poetic
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-ette

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: dimiutive (makes something smaller)

  • cigarette
  • disketter
  • kitchenette
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-fic (adj)

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: making, causing

  • scientific
  • specific
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-ful (adj)

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: full of

  • helpful
  • thankful
  • cheerful
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-gam / -gamy

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: marriage, union

  • monogam
  • polygamy
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-hood

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: state, condition, or quality

  • childhood
  • neighborhood
  • motherhood
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-ial

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**: relating to **

  • celestial
  • editotial
  • martial
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-ian

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**: relating to **

  • Martian
  • utopian
  • pediatrician
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-iasis

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: diseased condition

  • elephantiasis
  • psoriasis
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-iatric

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: healing practice

  • pediatric
  • psychiatric
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-ible

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: able to be

  • audible
  • plausible
  • legible
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-ic / ical (adj)

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: relating to, characterized by

  • analytic/al
  • comic/al
  • organic
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-ile

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**: relating to, capable of **

  • agile
  • docile
  • volatile
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-ily

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: in what manner

  • sloppily
  • steadily
  • zanily
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-ine (adj) or (noun)

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**: having the nature of characteristic of **

  • canine
  • feminine
  • masculine
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-ing

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: meterials

  • bedding
  • frosting
  • roofing
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-ing

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: action or process

  • dancing
  • seeing
  • writing
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-ion (noun)

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: action or process

  • celebration
  • completion
  • navigation
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-ious (adj)

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**: having the qualities of, full of **

  • ambitious
  • cautious
  • gracious
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-ish (adj)

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: origin, nature, resembling, group, attitude

  • apish
  • bruish
  • childish
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-ism (noun)

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: system, behavior, condition, action, attitude

  • communism
  • heroism
  • alcoholism
  • terroism
  • racism
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-ite

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**: resident of, follower, product of **

  • suburbanite
  • luddite
  • dynamite
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-itis

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: inflammation, preoccupation

  • appendictis
  • tonsillitis
  • frontrunneritis
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-ty, -ity (noun)

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: state, condition. or quality

  • abnormality
  • civility
  • necessity
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-ive (adj), (noun)

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: causing quality, character, performaing

  • conclusive
  • festive
  • abusive
  • demonstrative
75
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-ization

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: act or process of making

  • coloization
  • fertillization
  • modernization
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-ize / -ise (verb)

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: cause, treat, become

  • antagonize
  • authorize
  • popularize
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-less

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: without

  • fearless
  • helpess
  • homeless
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-let

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: version of

  • booklet
  • droplet
  • inlet
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-like

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: resembling, characteristic

  • childlike
  • homelike
  • lifelike
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-ling

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: yonger or inferior

  • duckling
  • underling
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-log

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: speech

  • dialog
  • monolog
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-loger / logist

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: one who does

  • astrologer
  • cardiologist
  • chronnologist
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-ly

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: in what manner

  • badly
  • courageously
  • happily
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-ment (noun)

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: action, result

  • movement
  • placement
  • shipment
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-ness (noun)

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: state or quality ( makes a noun )

  • kindness
  • shyness
  • weakness
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-oid

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: resembling

  • humanoid
  • tabloid
  • hemorrhoid
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-ology

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**: study of, science of **

  • antropology
  • archaeology
  • biology
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-oma

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: tumore, swelling

  • carcioma
  • osteoma
  • hematoma
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-onym

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: name, word

  • synonym
  • antonym
  • homonym
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-opia

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: eye defect

  • myopia
  • nyctalopia
  • hyperopia
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-opsy

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: examination

  • biopsy
  • autopsy
  • necropsy
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-or (noun)

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: a person who

  • inventor
  • legistor
  • translator
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-ory (noun), (adj)

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**: relating to **

  • armory
  • dormitory
  • laboratory
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-osis

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: process, diseased condition

  • diagnosis
  • prognosis
  • neurosis
  • psychosis
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-ostomy / otomy

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: surgical

  • colostomy
  • lobotomy
  • craniotomy
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-ous (adj)

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**: full of **

  • hazardous
  • humorous
  • wondrous
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-path

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**: one who engages in **

  • homepath
  • naturopath
  • psychopath
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-pathy

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: feeling, diseased

  • sympathy
  • apathy
  • neuropathy
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-phile

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: one who loves

  • bibliophile
  • audiophile
  • pyrophile
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-phobia

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**: abnormal fear of **

  • acrophobia
  • claustrophobia
  • xenophobia
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-phone

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: sound

  • homophone
  • telephone
  • microphone
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-phyte

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: plant, to grow

  • zoophyte
  • crytophyte
  • epiphyte
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-plegia

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: paralysis

  • paraplegia
  • quadriplegic
  • quadriplegic
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-plegic

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: one who is paralyzed

  • paraplegic
  • technoplegic
  • quadripleigc
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-pnea

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: air, spirit

  • apnea
  • hyperpnea
  • orthopnea
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-scopy / -scope

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: visual exam

  • arthroscopy
  • gastroscopy
  • microscope
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-sophy / -sophic

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: wisdom, knowledge

  • philosophy
  • theosophy
  • anthroposophic
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-th

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: state or quality

  • depth
  • length
  • strength
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-tion / -sion

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: state or quality

  • attention
  • caution
  • fascination
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-tome / -tomy

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: to cut

  • hysteretomy
  • epitome
  • tonsillotome
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-trophy

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: nourishment, growth

  • atrophy
  • hypertrophy
  • dystrophy
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-tude

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: state, condition or quality

  • fortitude
  • gratitude
  • magnitude
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-ty

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: state, condition or quality

  • ability
  • honesty
  • loyalty
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-ular

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: relating to or resembling

  • cellular
  • circular
  • muscular
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-uous

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: state or quality of

  • **arduous **
  • tumultuous
  • virtuous
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-ure

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: action, condition

  • closure
  • eraure
  • failure
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-ware

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: things of the same type or material

  • hardware
  • software
  • kitchenware
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-wise

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: in what manner of direction

  • clockwise
  • lengthwise
  • otherwise
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-y

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: made up of, characterized

  • brainy
  • fruity
  • gooey
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-ice (noun)

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: condition, state, quality

  • justic
  • malice
  • cowardice
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