One way to increase your vocabulary is to learn to reoganize and to use suffixes.
An Adjective suffix: When you add these suffixes to a root , you change the root to an adjective. You also change the meaning of the root
Adjective suffixes Mean “ Full of “
Suffix Example Meaning
-ous furious full of fury
-ose verbose wordy / full of words
-acious vivacious full of vivacity
Adjective suffixes Mean “ Relating to “ or “ Pertaining to “
Suffix Example Meaning
-al musical relating to music
-ant triumphant relating to triumph
-ic heroic pertaining to hero
-ical economical pertaining to economy
-ative talkative relating to talk
-ish childish relating to a child
-ive active pertaining to action
Adjective suffixes Mean What they say
Suffix Example Meaning
-able readable able to be read
-ible convertible able to be converted
-most topmost being at the very top
-less senseless without sense
-like lifelike like life
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REMEMBER !!!!!!
CHANGE OF SUFFIX = CHANGE IN MEANING
-IBLE = SENSIBLE
SENSE LESS = SENSELESS
- ITIVE = SENSITIVE
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