See a suffix; tell the part of speech it marks
-ence/-ance
provide
What is provider?
This is a person who creates something or improves something old in a significant way.
What is an inventor?
reduction
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: This is the meaning of the verb.
What is reduce?
What is make smaller?
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What is D E T E R M I N A T I O N?
-able/-ible
DOUBLE JEOPARDY: Name a word from our lists that ends in this suffix.
What is adjective?
What is available?
innovate
What is innovator?
This is a child not born in a family who becomes a legal part of the family.
What is an adoptee?
approximation
What is approximate?
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-ic
What is adjective?
legalize
What is lawyer?
This is a person whose job includes a lot of physical work.
What is a laborer?
combination
What is combine?
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What is C O N S U M P T I O N ?
-ings
What is a noun?
What is economist?
This is an American who believes that the United States should not support or even trade with other countries. These people believe that the United States should be completely separate and alone.
What is an isolationist?
pursuit
What is pursue?
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What is M A J O R ?
-ity
What is noun?
analyze
What is analyst?
This is a person who strongly believes that people should prepare for disasters. These people also train for those days of disaster.
What is a survivalist?
substance
What is substantiate?
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What is E M P H A T I C A L L Y?