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Suffixesareplacedafterwordstomodifytheirmeaningslikeprefixes,theyare
groupsoflettersthatrarelyserveapurposeunlessattachedtoaword.Hereisa
listofsomeofthemtogiveyouanideaofhowtoidentifysuffixes.
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Meaning
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able/ible
capableof
portable,legible
ac/ic
like/relatedto
cardiac,Nordic
acy
state/qualityofbeing
privacy,legitimacy
acious/icious
fullof
gracious,malicious
al
relatedto
logical,philosophical
ance/ence
state/qualityofbeing
maintenance,permanence
dom
state/qualityofbeing
freedom,kingdom
eer/er/or
personwho
mountaineer,writer,
counsellor
escent
becoming,tobe
adolescent,fluorescent
esque
like/reminiscentof
picturesque,Kafkaesque
fy
tomake
magnify,electrify
iferous
containing,yielding
vociferous,carboniferous
ise
make,become
civilise,terrorise
ish
havingqualitiesof
hellish,fiendish
ism
doctrine,belief,practice
favouritism,communism
ist
personwho
chemist,florist
ity
state/qualityofbeing
ingenuity,oddity
less
without
brainless,endless
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state/qualityofbeing,
resultofaction,process
enjoyment,embankment,
abridgement
ness
stateofbeing
thinness,loneliness
oid
like
celluloid,ovoid
ose
fullof
adipose,verbose
osis
condition
hypnosis,psychosis
ous
fullof
illustrious,nauseous
ship
positionheld
friendship,membership
sion/tion
state/qualityofbeing
tude
state/qualityofbeing
fortitude,certitude
characterisedby
funny,greedy
torsion,transition
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