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#4 Suffixes
Thornton's Suffixes
Question | Answer | Examples |
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-eer, -er, or | someone who does | engineer; doctor; teacher; |
-ian | a person who does | physician; electrician; musician; magician |
-ed | past tense | happened; liked; cooked |
-est | most | happiest; sweetest; strongest |
-less | without | friendless; penniless; worthless |
-able, -ible | able to | disable; likable; impossible; enjoyable |
-hood | state of rank | neighbourhood, statehood, knighthood |
-ic | like | athletic; volcanic; sympathetic |
-ion | act or process | education; suction; adhesion; accommodation; temptation |
-fy | to form into | liquify; solidify |
-ize | to become | demonize; publicize; oversize; utilize; rationalize |
-ive | having the nature of | impressive; massive; active |
-ship | an office or skill | friendship; township; worship; partnership; guardianship; fellowship |
-al | relating to something | political; biblical; cultural; chronological |
-ly, -y | like or resembling | happily; fully; angrily; clumsily; daily |