Suffixes and meaning

Question 1

-able

Answer 1

capable
can do
(teachable)

Question 2

-age

Answer 2

forming a noun
(marriage)

Question 3

-agogy

Answer 3

leading
(demagogy)

Question 4

-al

Answer 4

aspect of
(criminal)

Question 5

-ality

Answer 5

property
(criminality)

Question 6

-ation

Answer 6

state or concept of
(concentration)

Question 7

-cide

Answer 7

murder
killing agent
(suicide)

Question 8

-city

Answer 8

practice
(atrocity)

Question 9

-dom

Answer 9

state or condition of
(freedom)

Question 10

-duce

Answer 10

bring
(induce)

Question 11

-duct

Answer 11

lead
(conduct)

Question 12

-ee

Answer 12

changes verb to a noun
(employee)

Question 13

-eme

Answer 13

liguistic unit
(lexeme)

Question 14

-ept

Answer 14

skill
wisdom
(adept)

Question 15

-er

Answer 15

changes verb to a noun
(writer)
male
(widower)

Question 16

-ergy

Answer 16

work
(energy)

Question 17

-esque

Answer 17

in the style of
(Romanesque)

Question 18

-ess

Answer 18

female
(actress)

Question 19

-free

Answer 19

without something
(additive-free)

Question 20

-ful

Answer 20

full of
(hopeful)

Question 21

-fusion

Answer 21

pour together
(transfusion)

Question 22

-gate

Answer 22

a scandal
(Watergate)

Question 23

-gnosis

Answer 23

knowing
(prognosis)

Question 24

-gress

Answer 24

to walk
entrance
(digress)

Question 25

-holic

Answer 25

love
addiction
(alcoholic)

Question 26

-hood

Answer 26

state/ condition of
a group sharing characteristics
(brotherhood)

Question 27

-ible

Answer 27

capable
can do
(incredible)

Question 28

-ic

Answer 28

adjective
(neurotic)

Question 29

-ics

Answer 29

Technology
(Physics)

Question 30

-ify /-fy

Answer 30

to become
make
(basify)

Question 31

-ish

Answer 31

sort of
approximately
(greenish)

Question 32

-ism

Answer 32

doctrine, act
practice, condition
(alcoholism)

Question 33

-ity

Answer 33

eypressing state or condition
(normality)

Question 34

-ive

Answer 34

make the noun an adjective
(defensive)

Question 35

-ize/ -ise

Answer 35

to cause, to be
(idolize)

Question 36

-less

Answer 36

lack of
(homeless)

Question 37

-let

Answer 37

diminutive
(hamlet)

Question 38

-ling

Answer 38

smaller, younger, cuter
(darling)

Question 39

-ily

Answer 39

like, having
(quickly)

Question 40

-mania

Answer 40

an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action noun
(megalomania)

Question 41

-orgraphy/ -orgram

Answer 41

writing, description
(geography)

Question 42

-ologist

Answer 42

one who studies a scientific subject
(archaeologist)

Question 43

-ology

Answer 43

study, science
(astrology)

Question 44

-omics

Answer 44

study of rules
(economics)

Question 45

-onomy

Answer 45

knowledge of
(astronomy)

Question 46

-onym

Answer 46

name, word
(heteronym)

Question 47

-or

Answer 47

changes verb to noun
(actor)

Question 48

-ous

Answer 48

adjectival suffix
(porous)

Question 49

-pend

Answer 49

to hang
(impend)

Question 50

-polis

Answer 50

referring to city or big area
(metropolis)

Question 51

-proof

Answer 51

damage or difficulty
(fire-proof)

Question 52

-related

Answer 52

connected with
(age-related)

Question 53

-ridden

Answer 53

a lot of
(crime-ridden)

Question 54

-science

Answer 54

knowing
(omniscience)

Question 55

-script

Answer 55

written
(manuscript)

Question 56

-ship

Answer 56

circle, state of being land
(friendship)

Question 57

-stan

Answer 57

country
(Adghanistan)

Question 58

-ville

Answer 58

city
(Nashville)

Question 59

-voke

Answer 59

call
(invoke)

Question 60

-vore/ -vorous

Answer 60

to devour
(carnivore)

Question 61

-ward/ -wards

Answer 61

direction
(southward)

Question 62

-ware

Answer 62

software, stuff
(hardware)

Question 63

-where

Answer 63

location
(everywhere)

Question 64

-wise

Answer 64

direction, regarding
(clockwise)

Question 65

-y

Answer 65

having the quality of
(runny)