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| Suffix (Sample Words) |
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| Meaning |
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| ly (commonly, happily, safely) |
the way an item is |
| ful (thankful, careful) |
full of or enough of |
| able or ible (comfortable, reversible) |
to be able |
| less (careless, helpless) |
without |
| ist, er, or (pianist, artist, teacher, author, tailor, farmer) |
one who (does somthing) |
| ence or ance or ous (influence, violence, compliance, famous, continuous) |
quality or state of |
| ism or ity or ness (baptism, realism, necessity, kindness) |
state of (root) or being of (root) |
| s or es (fishes, kites, cats) |
makes a word plural, more than one |
| ary (library, missionary) |
related to, place for |
| ing (singing, purring) |
process of doing something |
| ed (hummed, drummed) |
past tense |
| ic or ish or al (acrobatic, allergic, bluish, selfish, final) |
like or related to |
| ate (compassionate, decaffeinate) |
process of making (root), quality of |
| est (biggest, fastest) |
the most or best |
| tion or sion or tive or sive (attention, discussion, attentive, permissive) |
process of doing, state of an item |
| y or ity (handy, hungry) |
in the manner of being |
| ant or ent or ment (abundant, absorbent, arguement, disagreement) |
cause of an action or condition, being |
| ize (characterize, humanize) |
to become, to cause |
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