Suffixes Flashcards
- acious
- cious
state of being, having quality of;
avaricious, precious, capacious, meretricious
- age
act, condition of;
courage, foliage, bandage
- al
of being, belonging to;
legal, primal, oficial, regal
- ary
- eer
- er
one who concerning;
secretary, commandeer, commander, engineer, mariner
- dom
land, state of;
fiefdom, freedom, serfdom
- er
- or
person who is;
player, orator, lector, actor, employer
- hood
state of;
neighborhood, knighthood, childhood
- ic
- id
state of being, like;
bucolic, acidic, fetid, putrid, tepid
- ism
way of thinking, belief in, practice of;
idealism, capitalism
- ist
one who practices, devotion for;
anarchist, botanist, harpist
- mony
state of being;
matrimony, harmony, monotony
- ory
place for;
factory, laboratory, depository
- ship
relation, state of skill;
friendship, relationship
- tude
state of;
lassitude, rectitude
- ward
in direction of;
windward, leeward, steward, backward