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Word Formation Chart

The document presents a comprehensive list of words categorized into nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, highlighting their relationships and variations. Each entry includes pairs of related terms, such as 'ability' and 'disability,' along with their corresponding verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. This structured format serves as a reference for understanding the connections between different forms of words.

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Word Formation Chart

The document presents a comprehensive list of words categorized into nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, highlighting their relationships and variations. Each entry includes pairs of related terms, such as 'ability' and 'disability,' along with their corresponding verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. This structured format serves as a reference for understanding the connections between different forms of words.

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Noun Verb Adjective Adverb

ability / disability enable / disable able / unable ably

acceptance / accept acceptable / acceptably /


unacceptability unacceptable unacceptably

accuracy / — accurate / inaccurate accurately /


inaccuracy inaccurately

activity / inactivity activate active / inactive actively / inactively

addition add additional additionally

admission admit admissible / —


inadmissible

approval / approve / approving / approvingly /


disapproval disapprove disapproving disapprovingly

assessment assess assessable —

assistance assist assistant —

attendance attend attentive / inattentive attentively / inattentively

belief / disbelief believe / believable / believably /


disbelieve unbelievable unbelievably

break break breakable / —


unbreakable
breadth broaden broad broadly

care care careful / careless carefully / carelessly

character characterize characteristic / characteristically /


uncharacteristic uncharacteristically

childhood — childish / childlike childishly

clarity clarify clear / unclear clearly / unclearly

comfort / discomfort comfort / comfortable / comfortably /


discomfort uncomfortable uncomfortably

communication communicate communicative / communicatively /


uncommunicative uncommunicatively

competition compete competitive / competitively /


uncompetitive uncompetitively

confidence / confide confident / diffident confidently / diffidently


diffidence

convenience / — convenient / conveniently /


inconvenience inconvenient inconveniently

courage / encourage / courageous / courageously /


discouragement discourage discouraged discouragingly

creation create creative / uncreative creatively / uncreatively

decision / indecision decide decisive / indecisive decisively / indecisively


dependence / depend dependent / dependently /
independence independent independently

description describe descriptive / descriptively /


indescriptive indescriptively

difference / differ different / indifferent differently / indifferently


indifference

efficiency / — efficient / inefficient efficiently / inefficiently


inefficiency

emotion — emotional / emotionally /


unemotional unemotionally

enjoyment enjoy enjoyable / enjoyably / unenjoyably


unenjoyable

explanation explain explanatory / —


unexplanatory

failure fail failed / unfailing —

fortune / misfortune — fortunate / fortunately /


unfortunate unfortunately

friend / friendship befriend friendly / unfriendly friendly / unfriendly

happiness / — happy / unhappy happily / unhappily


unhappiness

health — healthy / unhealthy healthily / unhealthily


honesty / dishonesty — honest / dishonest honestly / dishonestly

importance / — important / importantly /


unimportance unimportant unimportantly

information inform informative / informatively /


uninformative uninformatively

invention invent inventive / inventively /


uninventive uninventively

knowledge / know knowledgeable / knowledgeably /


ignorance ignorant ignorantly

length lengthen long lengthily

loss lose lost —

memory memorize memorable / memorably /


unmemorable unmemorably

nation nationalize national / nationally /


international internationally

necessity necessitate necessary / necessarily /


unnecessary unnecessarily

obedience / obey / disobey obedient / obediently /


disobedience disobedient disobediently

patience / — patient / impatient patiently / impatiently


impatience
peace — peaceful / peacefully /
unpeaceful unpeacefully

perfection / perfect perfect / imperfect perfectly / imperfectly


imperfection

performance perform performative —

permission permit permissible / permissibly /


impermissible impermissibly

popularity / — popular / unpopular popularly / unpopularly


unpopularity

possibility / — possible / impossible possibly / impossibly


impossibility

power empower powerful / powerless powerfully / powerlessly

reality / unreality realize real / unreal really / unreally

reliability / rely reliable / unreliable reliably / unreliably


unreliability

responsibility / — responsible / responsibly /


irresponsibility irresponsible irresponsibly

safety / danger — safe / dangerous safely / dangerously

satisfaction / satisfy / dissatisfy satisfied / satisfactorily /


dissatisfaction dissatisfied dissatisfactorily

security / insecurity secure secure / insecure securely / insecurely


sensitivity / — sensitive / insensitive sensitively /
insensitivity insensitively

success / failure succeed / fail successful / successfully /


unsuccessful unsuccessfully

surprise surprise surprising / surprisingly /


unsurprising unsurprisingly

thought / think thoughtful / thoughtfully /


thoughtlessness thoughtless thoughtlessly

truth / untruth — true / untrue truly / untruly

use / misuse use / misuse useful / useless usefully / uselessly

value / devaluation value / devalue valuable / valueless valuably / valuelessly

wealth / poverty — wealthy / poor wealthily / poorly

width widen wide widely

youth — young / youthful youthfully

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