Suffixes are placed after words to modify their meanings; like prefixes, they are groups of letters that rarely serve a purpose unless attached to a word. Here is a list of some of them to give you an idea of how to identify suffixes. Suffix Meaning Examples -able/- ible capable of portable, legible -ac/-ic like/related to cardiac, Nordic -acy state/quality of being privacy, legitimacy - acious/- icious full of gracious, malicious -al related to logical, philosophical -ance/- ence state/quality of being maintenance, permanence -dom state/quality of being freedom, kingdom -eer/- er/-or person who mountaineer, writer, counsellor -escent becoming, to be adolescent, fluorescent -esque like/ reminiscent of picturesque, Kafkaesque -fy to make magnify, electrify -iferous containing, yielding vociferous, carboniferous -ise make, become civilise, terrorise -ish having qualities of hellish, fiendish -ism doctrine, belief, practice favouritism, communism -ist person who chemist, florist -ity state/quality of being ingenuity, oddity -less without brainless, endless -ment state/quality of being, result of action, process enjoyment, embankment, abridgement -ness state of being thinness, loneliness -oid like celluloid, ovoid -ose full of adipose, verbose -osis condition hypnosis, psychosis -ous full of illustrious, nauseous -ship position held friendship, membership -sion/- tion state/quality of being torsion, transition -tude state/quality of being fortitude, certitude -y characterised by funny, greedy
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