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Word formation

Noun Verb Adjective Adverb


good->better->best well
bad-> worse ->worst badly
broaden broad
easy->easier easily
forget (un)forgettable
loosen loose
enlarge large
modernize modern
ordinary/extraordinary
rely (un)reliable
enrich rich
second/secondary
suit suitable
value (in)valuable
ability enable (dis)able
accident accidental accidentally
accommodation accommodate
accuracy accurate accurately
actor/actress/action/activity act active/inactive (in)actively
addition add additional additionally
adequacy adequate
adjustment adjust
adjustment adjust
admiration admire
admiration admire admiring admiringly
admission admit
advertisement advertise
advice advise
(dis)advantage (dis)advantaged
agreement/disagreement (dis)agree agreeable/disagreeable
amazement amaze amazing/amazed
amusement amuse amused/amusing
announcement announce
annoyance annoy
(dis)appearance (dis)appear
anxiety anxious anxiously
application apply applicable
argument argue
arrangement arrange
arrival arrive
association associate
astonishment astonish astonishing/astonished
attendance attend attendant
attraction attract attractive attractively
beauty beautify beautiful
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beginning/beginner begin/began/begun
behavior behave
belief/unbelief believe (un)believable
blood bleed/bled/bled bloody
boredom bore boring/bored boringly
care/carefulness/carelessness care (for) careful/careless carefully/carelessly
carriage carry
celebration celebrate
change change (un)changeable
child/children childlike
coast coastal
collection /collector collect collective
comfort comfortable/comfortless
commerce commercialize commercial
communication communicate
communication/communicator communicate communicative
comparison compare comparative
comparison compare comparative
competition/competitor compete
complaint complain
completion/completeness complete complete/completed completely
composer compose
compulsion compel compulsory
congratulation congratulate
connection/connector connect connective connectively
consideration considerate
consumption/consumer consume
(in)convenience (in)convenient
correspondence correspond
courage courageous
crowd crowd crowded
culture cultural
danger endanger dangerous dangerously
day daily daily
death die died
decision decide
decoration decorate
delight delightful
delivery deliver
departure depart
description/describer describe
design/designer design
development develop developed/developing
difference differ different (from) differently
difficulty difficult difficultly
direction/director direct (in)direct
discouragement discourage discouraging
discussion discuss
economy/economist economize economical/economic economically
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education/educator educate educated/(co)educational
effectiveness effect effective effectively
efficiency efficient efficiently
emigration emigrate migratory
employer/employee employ (un)employed/employable
encouragement encourage encouraging
ending end endless endlessly
energy energetic
enjoyment enjoy enjoyable enjoyably
entertainment entertain
entrance enter
eruption erupt
exam/examiner/examination examine
excitement excite excited/exciting excitedly
expectation expect
experience experienced
explanation explain
exploration/explorer explore
failure fail failed
fame famous
farm/farmer/farming farm
fashion fashionable
flight fly/flew/flown flying
fluency fluent fluently
forest/ deforestation
form formal
freedom free
friend/friendship/friendliness (un)friendly
fright frighten frightened/frightening
gardening/gardener
growth grow/grew/grown
habit habituate habitual
(un)happiness (un)happy (un)happily
harm harm harmful/harmless harmfully/harmlessly
health healthy/unhealthy (un)healthily
heat heat hot
height high highly
help help helpful/helpless helpfully/helplessly
history historical/historic
home homeless/homesick
(dis)honesty (dis)honest (dis)honestly
hope hope hopeful/ hopeless
house/household
humor( sense of humor) humorous humorously
identification identify (un)identified
imagination imagine
impression impress impressive/impressed
improvement improve
increase increase increasing increasingly
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industry industrialize industrial
information inform informative
innovation innovate
inspiration inspire
(un)installation (un)install (un)installed
interaction interact interactive
interest interest (un)interesting (un)interestingly
invention/inventor invent
investigation investigate
joy joy joyful/joyless
kindness (un)kind
knowledge know/knew/known knowledgeable
landing land
law/ lawyer
laziness lazy lazily
learner/learning learn/learnt/learnt learned
length lengthen long
life live lively/alive/live
loss lose/lost/lost
love love loved/lovely
luck/unluck (un)lucky (un)luckily
marriage marry married
memory memorize
mystery mysterious
mountain mountainous
nation/nationality national nationally
necessity necessary necessarily
neighbor/neighborhood
novel/novelist
office official
painting/painter paint
participant/participation participate
passage pass passive
(im)patience (im)patient
payment pay/paid/paid
peace peaceful
performance/performer perform performing
pleasure please (un)pleased/pleasant
poet/poetry/poem poetic
poison poisonous
pollution pollute (un)polluted
popularity popular
population/overpopulation populate overpopulated
prediction predict
prevention/preventer prevent preventable
pride pride proud(of)
product/production/producer produce productive
profit profitable
promise/promisor promise promising promisingly
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proof prove
protection/protector protect protective/(un)protected protectively
provision provide
publishment publish published
qualification/quality (un)qualify (un)qualified
rain rain rainy
reader read/read/read
receiver/receipt receive
reference refer
relative/relation/relationship relate relative/related relatively
relaxation relax
religion religious religiously
replacement replace
(un)safety (un)safe
satisfaction satisfy (un)satisfied/(un)satisfactory
scenery/scene scenic
science/scientist(s) scientific scientifically
shame shameful/shameless/ashamed
shortage shorten short shortly
sightseeing/sight sight
slavery/slaver
sleeve sleeved/sleeveless
solution solve
speech/speaker speak/spoke/spoken
strength strengthen strong strongly
study study studious
(un)success (un)succeed (un)successful (un)successfully
suggestion suggest
thought think/thought/thought thoughtful/thoughtless
tiredness tire tired/tireless
tradition traditionalize traditional traditionally
trouble troublesome
(un)truth (un)true/(un)truthful
(mis)understanding (mis)understand understandable (mis)understandingly
usage use/reuse useful/useless usefully/uselessly
weight weigh overweight/underweight
width widen wide widely
wisdom wise
wonder wonderful wonderfully

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