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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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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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stem: dur

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hard, to last

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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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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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stem: tort

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to twist

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noun forming suffixes

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suffixes that turn stems into nouns

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gravity
GRAV- heavy + ity
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sanity
SAN- healthy + ity
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stem: am
to love
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stem: de, div
god
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stem: journ
day
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stem: or
to speak, formally, please
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stem: prob, prov
good, to test
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stem: rap, rapt
to seize
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stem: string, strict, strain
to draw tight
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stem: ver
true
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suffix: -imony, acity, -y, -ate
quality of, state of, inclined to
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stem: cid, cis
to kill, cut
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stem: matr, matern
mother
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stem: patr, patern
father
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stem: patri
fatherland, country
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stem: patron
protector
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stem: sequ, secut
to follow
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stem: sol
alone
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stem: viv
to live
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suffix: -ion, -ment, -men
act of, state of, means of
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stem: cre, cresc, cret
to grow
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stem: i, it
to go
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stem: jug, junct, join, joint
to yoke, to join
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stem: leg, lig, lect
to choose, pick out
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stem: mon
to warn, advise
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stem: solv, solut
to free, loosen
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suffix: -icule, -el, -il, -ole
little
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stem: ferv
to boil, bubble
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stem: frang, fring, fract
to break
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stem: gran
grain
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stem: minor, minus, minut
small, smaller
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stem: pati, pass
to endure, suffer
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stem: quir, quisit, quest
to ask, seek
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stem: sec, seg, sect
to cut
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suffix: -ance, ancy, ency, or, ary, ory
quality of, state of, result of
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stem: ag, ig, act
to do, drive
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stem: clam, claim
to cry out
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stem: cog
to think, reflect, consider
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stem: dic, dict
to say
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stem: ger, gest
to carry, produce
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stem: mit, mis
to send, let go
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stem: sci
to know
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stem: son
sound
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stem: val, vail
to be strong, be worthy
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suffix: -ure, ulence, or, andum
result of, state of, that which does
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stem: err
to wander
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stem: jac, ject
to throw
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stem: nomen, nomin
name, noun
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stem: scrib, script
to write
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stem: sta, stit, sist
to stand
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stem: volv, volut
to roll
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suffix: esce
to begin, to become
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stem: capit, cipit
head
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stem: gno, no, not
to know
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stem: loc
place
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stem: put
to prune, reckon, think
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stem: radic
root
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stem: rog
to ask
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stem: spir
to breathe

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