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Exam 2 Vocab Flashcards

1
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adjective-forming suffixes

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An adjective suffix is a group of letters that are added to the end of a word to change the word’s meaning or to make it an adjective

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2
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suffix: -itious

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tending to, characterized by

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suffix: -id

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tending to, inclined to

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suffix: -ulous

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tending to, inclined to

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fictitious

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FICT- to invent + -itious

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frigid

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FRIG- to be cold + id

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tremulous

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TREM- to tremble + ulous

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stem: ac(u), acr, acet

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sharp, bitter

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stem: cap, cip, capt, cept

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to take, seize

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stem: fac, fic, fact, fect

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to do, make

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stem: flor

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flower

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stem: flu, flux, fluv, fluor

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to flow, a flow

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stem: foli, foil

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leaf

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stem: noc, nox, nic, nec

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to harm, kill

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stem: nov

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new

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suffix: -ive, -uous, -ory

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tending to, inclined to, serving for

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stem: cern, cret, cert

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to separate, distinguish

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18
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stem: dur

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hard, to last

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19
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stem: fund, fus, found

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to pour, melt

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stem: nasc, nat

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to be born

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21
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stem: pel, puls

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to drive, push

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stem: pon, posit, pound, pose

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to place, put

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23
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stem: tort

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to twist

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24
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noun forming suffixes

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suffixes that turn stems into nouns

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25
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gravity

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GRAV- heavy + ity

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25
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sanity

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SAN- healthy + ity

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26
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stem: am

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to love

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27
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stem: de, div

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god

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28
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stem: journ

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day

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29
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stem: or

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to speak, formally, please

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30
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stem: prob, prov

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good, to test

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31
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stem: rap, rapt

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to seize

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stem: string, strict, strain

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to draw tight

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stem: ver

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true

34
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suffix: -imony, acity, -y, -ate

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quality of, state of, inclined to

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stem: cid, cis

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to kill, cut

36
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stem: matr, matern

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mother

37
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stem: patr, patern

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father

38
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stem: patri

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fatherland, country

39
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stem: patron

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protector

40
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stem: sequ, secut

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to follow

41
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stem: sol

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alone

42
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stem: viv

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to live

43
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suffix: -ion, -ment, -men

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act of, state of, means of

44
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stem: cre, cresc, cret

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to grow

45
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stem: i, it

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to go

46
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stem: jug, junct, join, joint

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to yoke, to join

47
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stem: leg, lig, lect

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to choose, pick out

48
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stem: mon

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to warn, advise

49
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stem: solv, solut

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to free, loosen

50
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suffix: -icule, -el, -il, -ole

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little

51
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stem: ferv

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to boil, bubble

52
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stem: frang, fring, fract

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to break

53
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stem: gran

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grain

54
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stem: minor, minus, minut

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small, smaller

55
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stem: pati, pass

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to endure, suffer

56
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stem: quir, quisit, quest

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to ask, seek

57
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stem: sec, seg, sect

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to cut

58
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suffix: -ance, ancy, ency, or, ary, ory

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quality of, state of, result of

59
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stem: ag, ig, act

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to do, drive

60
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stem: clam, claim

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to cry out

61
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stem: cog

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to think, reflect, consider

62
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stem: dic, dict

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to say

63
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stem: ger, gest

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to carry, produce

64
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stem: mit, mis

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to send, let go

65
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stem: sci

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to know

66
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stem: son

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sound

67
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stem: val, vail

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to be strong, be worthy

68
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suffix: -ure, ulence, or, andum

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result of, state of, that which does

69
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stem: err

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to wander

70
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stem: jac, ject

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to throw

71
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stem: nomen, nomin

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name, noun

72
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stem: scrib, script

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to write

73
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stem: sta, stit, sist

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to stand

74
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stem: volv, volut

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to roll

75
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suffix: esce

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to begin, to become

76
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stem: capit, cipit

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head

77
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stem: gno, no, not

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to know

78
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stem: loc

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place

79
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stem: put

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to prune, reckon, think

80
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stem: radic

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root

81
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stem: rog

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to ask

82
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stem: spir

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to breathe

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