You are on page 1of 7

WORD FORMATION

A
-afford, affordable
-achieve, achievement
-ability, able
-accessible, access
-accident, accidental
-act, action
-active, actively
-ambitious, ambition
-angry, anger
-annual, annually
-appear, disappear, appearance
-application, apply
-appropriate, inappropriate
-approve, approval, disapprove
-argue, argument
-arrive, arrival
-attract, attractive
-associate, association
-automatic, automatically
B
-blood, bloody
-basic, basically
-belief, believer, believe
-broad, broaden
-build, rebuild, building
-behave, behaviour
C
-commerce, commercial
-care, careful, carefully
-cello, cellist
-conserve, conservation
-colour, colourful
-consider, reconsider, reconsideration
-curl, curly
-culture, cultural

-chemist, chemical, chemistry


-celebrate, celebration, celebrating
-confident, confidence
-comfortable, uncomfortable
-complete, completely
-courage, discourage
-communicate, communication
-correspond, corresondence
-criticise, criticism
-certain, uncertain
-conscious, (un)consciously
D
-demand, demanding
-delight, delightful
-danger, dangerous, endangered
-decide, decision
-die, death
-do, redo, undo
-day, daily
-dull
-dust, dusty
-deep, depth, deeply, deepen
-destroy, destruction
-drum, drummer
E
-enter, entrance
-effect, effective
-elegant, elegance
-exception, exceptional
-end, endless, endlessly
-expensive, inexpensive
-entertain, entertainment
-excellent
-electronic, electronically
-electric, electricity
-education, educate, educated, educational, educator
-embarrassed, embarrassing, embarrassment
-extraordinary, extraordinarily
-extreme, extremely

-experience, experienced, inexperienced


F
-friend, friendship
-flute, flautist
-fasten, unfasten
-favour, favourable
-fog, foggy
-fun, funny
-fail, failure
-fresh, freshness
-frightened, fear
-flexible, flexibility
-fascinate, fascinating
-free, freedom
G
-grow, re-grow
-generous, generosity
-generate, regenerate, regeneration
H
-hunt, hunter
-high, height
-honest, dishonest
-help, (un)helpful
-hope, hopeless, hopeful
-hot, heat
-(un)happy, (un)happiness, (un)happily
I
-interview, interviewee
-industrial, industry
-invent, invention
-ice, icy
-impress, impressive
-intelligent, intelligence
-identify, identification
-introduce, introduction
J
-juice, juicy
-jealous, jealousy

K
-kind, kindness
-know, knowledge
L
-life, living
-luck, lucky, luckily
-line, underline
-lock, unlock, relock
-legal, illegal
-long, length, lengthily, lengthen
-lazy, laziness
M
-mark, remark, remarkable
-move, movement
-maintain, maintenance
-marine, submarine
-moral, immoral
-music, musician
-mind, mindless
-mess, messy
-mud, muddy
-medicine, medical
-measure, measurement
-major, majority
N
-noise, noisy
-necessary, necessarily
-new, renew
O
-optimistic, optimism, optimist
-organise, organised, disorganized, organisation
-operate, operation
-oblige, obligation
-open, reopen, reopening
-observe, observation
P
-person, personal
-possess, repossess, repossession
-pay, payment, repay, repayment

-popular, popularity
-place, replace
-possible, impossible
-patient, impatient
-proud, pride
-punctual, punctuality
-produce, product
-poison, poisonous
-pollution, pollutant, pollute
-publish, publication
-prefer, preference
-piano, pianist
-prove, proof
Q
-qualify, qualification
R
-rain, rainfall
-recommend, recommendation
-regular, irregular
-responsible, irresponsible
-reduce, reduction
-risk, risky
-reliable, reliability
-reasonable, reasonably
-real, really
-represent, representative
S
-sure, ensure
-saxophone, saxophonist
-sense, sensitive
-say, saying
-specialise, specialist
-substance, substantial
-surprise, surprising, surprisingly
-sad, sadness
-satisfied, dissatisfied
-science, scientist, scientific
-safe, safety
-sensitive, sensitivity

-short, shortness, shortly, shorten


-shy, shyness, shyly
-smoke, smoker, non-smoker
-sophisticated
-standard, substandard
-steady, steadily
-stick, non-stick
-stop, non-stop
-strong, strength, strongly, strengthen
-satisfy, satisfaction, dissatisfaction
-stupid, stupidity
-succeed, success, (un)successful, successfully
-sun, sunny, sunshine
-see, sights
-surround, surrounding
-separate, separation
-society, social
-settle, settlement
T
-tradition, tradiational
-temporary, temporarily
-tour, tourist, tourism
-teens, teenager
-true, truth, truly
-train, retrain, training
-tie, untie
-total, subtotal
-trick, tricky
-treat, treatment
-trumpet, trumpeter
U
-understand, misunderstand, understandable
-use, re-usable, useful
V
-value, undervalue, valuable
-vary, various, variety
-visit, visitors
-violin, violinist

W
-water, underwater
-way, subway
-want, wanted
-wind, windy
-warm, warmth, warmly, warm
-wide, wideness, widely, widen
-weak, weakness, weakly, weaken
-wind, windy
-write, rewrite
X
Y
-young, youth
Z
-zoo, zoology

You might also like