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-age
(Ex: manage)
What is result of an action?
-ful
(Ex: handful)
What is full of?
-ity, -ty
(Ex: equality)
What is state of, quality of?
-less
(Ex: sleepless)
What is without?
-ward
(Ex: forward, toward)
What is in the direction of?
-al
(Ex: identical)
What is of or pertaining to; having the form of?
-hood
(Ex: neighborhood)
What is state, quality, condition of?
-ish
(Ex: childish, girlish)
What is like, having the characteristics of, inclined or tending to?
-logy
(Ex: biology)
What is the study of?
This suffix means “one who does,” as in teacher or actor.
What is -er?
-cy, -cies
(Ex: emergency, emergencies)
What is used to form an abstract noun?
-ic
(Ex: energetic)
What is relating to, characterized by?
-ist
(Ex: florist, biologist)
What is person who practices or is concerned with?
-ment
(Ex: assessment, refreshment)
What is for nouns, showing action or state of being?
What suffix means “the state or quality of,” as in happiness or kindness?
What is -ness?
-ed
(Ex: jumped)
What is past tense?
-ice
(Ex: service)
What is state or quality of?
-ive
(Ex: effective, progressive)
What is tending or having to do with?
-ous, -eous, -ious
(Ex: adventurous, mysterious, courteous)
What is full of, characterized by?
This suffix is often added to adjectives to turn them into adverbs, as in quickly.
What is -ly?
-ent, -ant
(Ex: student, contestant)
What is an action, condition, or causing a specific action?
-ify
(Ex: fortify)
What is to make, to form into?
-ize
(Ex: apologize)
What is to make, to cause to become?
-some
(Ex: awesome, burdensome)
What is characterized by a thing, quality, state, or action?
What suffix means “able to be?
what is -able?