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VERBS

NOUN

ADJECTIVE

ADVERB

enable

ability

able unable

ably

absence absentee absent accident

accidental

accommodate

accommodation

acknowledge

acknowledgeme nt

act

action activity activist actress actor

activate

activation

add

addition additive

additional additive

adequacy inadequacy

adequate inadequate

admiration

admirable

advantage disadvantage

advantageous disadvantageous

admire

active inactive

admirably

advertise

advertisement advertiser

admit

admission admittance

adopt

adoption

advise

advice advisability

advisable inadvisable

affection

affectionate unaffectionate

affect

effect

effective ineffective

agree disagree

agreement disagreement

agreeable disagreeable

agreeably disagreeably

alcohol

alcoholic

alcoholically

allow

allowance ambition

amuse

amusement

annoy

annoyance

excite

excitement

apologise

advisably inadvisably

ambitious

anxiety

anxious

apology

apologetic

apologetically

appear disappear

appearance disapperance

applaud

applause applauder

apply

application applicant

appoint

appointment

appreciate

appreciation

approve disapprove

approval disapproval

argue

argument argumentation

arrange

arrangement

arrive

arrival

assist

assistance

associate

association

assume

assumption

astonish

astonishment

attend

attendance attention

apparent

apparently

applicable

applicably

appreciative

arguable argumentative

arguably

attentive

attract

attraction attractive attractiveness unattractive unattractiveness

avoid

avoidance

avoidable unavoidable

avoidably unavoidably

base

basis

basic

basically

beautify

beauty beautician beautiful

believe

belief disbelief

bleed

blood

believable unbelievable

bravery

brave

breathe

breath

breathless

broaden

breadth

broad

brighten

brightness

bright

brilliance

brilliant

bury calculate

burial calculation

beautifully believably unbelievably

calculator

change

caution

cautious

change changeability

changeable

child childhood

childish childlike

unchangeable

choose

choice

circle

circle

circular

civilise

civilsation civics

civil civic civilised uncivilised

classify

class classification

enclose

enclosure

collect

collection collector collective

comfort

comfort discomfort

comfortable uncomfortable

comfortably uncomfortably

compare

comparison

comparative comparable

comparably

compel

compulsion

compulsory

compulsorily

compete

competition competitor

competitive

complete

completion

complete imcomplete

compose

composition composer

conclude

conclusion

confirm

confirmation

confide

confidence

confess

confession

confirm

confirmation

confuse

confusion

confident unconfident confidential confirmed unconfirmed

congratulate congratulation consciousness unconsciousness

conscious unconscious

conserve

conservation

consider

consideration

considerable inconsiderable

construct

construction

constructive

considerably inconsiderably

consume

consumption

continue discontinue

continuation discontinuation

continuous discontinuous continual

convenience inconvenience

convenient inconvenient

converse

conversation

conversational

cook

cook cooker

cookery

correct

correction

correct incorrect corrective

encourage discourage

courage encouragement discouragement

courageous

cowardice

coward

creation creature creator

creative

crime criminal

criminal

critic criticism

critical

curiosity

curious

cruelty

cruel

custom

customary

create

criticize

damage

damage

endanger

danger

dangerous

darken

darkness

dark

day

daily

deafness

deaf

deceit

deceitful

decide

decision

decisive indecisive

decorate

decoration decorator

deepen

depth

deep

defend

defence defendant

defensive indefensible

deliver

delivery

deliverable undeliverable

depend

dependence independence

dependent independent

describe

description

descriptive

deafen

indefensibly

describable indescribable destroy

destruction

destructive nondestructive

determine

determination

determined undetermined

develop

development

dictate

dictation

dictatorial

die

death

dead deadly

differ

difference

different

differentiate differentiation direct

direction director directory

discover

discovery

discuss

discussion distance

direct indirect

distant

distribute

distribution

disturb

disturbance

divide

division

divisive

doubt

doubt

doubtful

dust duster

dusty

ease

easy

economise

economic economical economy economics uneconomica l

educate

education

educational

efficiency

efficient inefficient

elect

election

electrify

electricity electrician

embarrass

embarrassment

employ

employment unemployment employee employer

enjoy

enjoyment

enter

entrance

easily

electric electrical

enjoyable

enjoyably

enthuse

enthusiasm enthusiast

enthusiastic enthusiastically unethusiastic unenthusiastically

equalise

equalisation equality inequality

equal unequal equally

except

exception

exhibit

exhibition expense

expensive inexpensive

explain

explanation

explanatory explicable inexplicable

explode

explosion

explosive

express

expression

extend

extension

extensive

extinction

extinct

extensively

fail

failure

falsify

falsity falsehood

false

fame

famous infamous

fashion

fashionable fashionably unfashionable unfashionably

fat fatness

fat fattening

fault

faulty faultless faultily

favor

favor favorite

favorable unfavourable favoured favorite

fear

fear fearlessness

afraid fearful fearless

ferfilise

fertility fertiliser

fertile

fit

fitness

unfit misfit

fly

flight

fatten

famously

favorably unfavorably

foot footprint footstep forget

forgetfulness

forgive

forgivingness

form

formation deformity formative fortune misfortune

forgetful

fortunate unfortunate

forgetfully formatively fortunately unfortunately

formalise

formality

formal

formally

free

freedom

free

freely

refresh

refreshment

fresh

frequency infrequency

frequent infrequent

befriend

friend friendship

friendly unfriendly

furnish

furniture furnisher

furnished unfurnished

frequently

generous

generously

gentleness

gentle

gently

gold

golden

generosity

govern

grow

government governor greed

greedy

greed

greedy

growth guilt

happiness unhappiness

guilty happy unhappy

happily unhappily

hasten

haste

hasty

hastily

hate

hatred hatefulness

hateful

hatefully

head

head headline headache heading

heal

health

healthy unhealthy

healthily unhealthily

heat

heat heater

hot

heighten

height

high

hero heroine heroism

heroic

hesitate

hesitation

hesitative

hinder

hindrance honesty

honest dishonest

honour dishonour

honourable dishonourable

heroically

horizon

horizontal

house household housekeeper housewife hunger

ice

hungry

hungrily

icy

identification

identified unidentified

imagine

image imagination

imaginary imaginative imaginarily unimaginative

imitate

imitation

imitative

importance

important unimportant

impress

impression

impressive

improve

improvement

include

inclusion

identify

inclusive

industrialis industrial industry industrialist e industrilised infer

inference

influence

influence

influential

inform misinform

information

informative uninformative

injure

injury innocence

inquire

inquiry

insure

insurance

innocent

intellectuali intellect intellectual intellectual se intend

intention

intentional unintentional

interest disinterest

interest disinterest

uninterested uninteresting

interpret

interpretation

interrupt

interruption

interrogate

interrogation

introduce

introduction

interrogative

invent

invention

invite

invitation

know

knowledge

laugh

laughter

lead mislead

leader leadership

legalise

legality illegality

lend

loan

lengthen

length

lessen

less

lighten

light lighter light lighthouse lightness

live

inventive

knowledgeabl e laughable

legal illegal

legally illegally

long

literature literacy illiteracy

literary literate illiterate

life

live lively alive

loneliness aloneness lonely alone lose

loss

loosen

looseness

loose

loyalty disloyalty

loyal disloyal

luck

lucky

maintain

maintenance

manage mismanage

management mismanagement manager manageress

marry

marriage

managerial manageable unmanageable

mountain mountaineer

mountainous

measurement

measurable

mechanic mechanism

mechanical

memorise

memory memo

memorial

modernise

modernisation modernity

modern

modify

modification

measure

luckily

measurably

moralise

morality immorality

moral immoral

mother motherhood motherly mountain mountaineer

mountainous

multiplication

multiple

mystery

mysterious

nationalize

nation nationality

national

naturalise

nature

natural unnatural

necessitate

necessity

necessary unnecessary

necessarily unnecessarily

neglect

negligence

negligible negligent

negligibly

nerve

nervous

noise

noisy

obey disobey

obedience disobedience

obedient disobedient

object

objection objectivity

objective objectionable objectionably unobjectionable

oblige obligate

obligation

obligatory

observe

observation observant observatory

multiply

occasion occupy

occupation occupant

officiate

office officer official

omit

omission

operate

operation

originate

origin originality

own

owner ownership

pack

packet package

part

part partner

occasional

official unofficial

original

partial

noisily

particle patience impatience

patient impatient

payment payee

payable unpaid

peculiarity

peculiar

permission

permissive

person personlity

personal impersonal

perceive

perception

perceptive unperceptive

perfect

perfection

perfect imperfect

perform

performance

pay permit

permanence permanency

parmanent

persuade

persuasion

persuasive unpersuasive

please

pleasure displeasure

pleasurable

plenty

plentiful

politics politician

political

poison

poisounous

popularise

popularity unpopularity

popular unpopular

populate

population poverty

poor

possess

possession possessor

possessive

post

postage

postal

possibility impossibility

possible impossible

practicality practicability

practical impractical practicable impracticable

practise

practice practitioner

prefer

preference

preferable

present

presence

present

preserve

preservation

preservative

press

pressure

possibly impossibly

preferably

prevent

imprison

prevention

preventive

pride

proud

prison prisoner imprisonment probability improbability

produce

profit

probable improbable

probably improbably

production product productive producer unproductive profession

professional unprofessional

profit

profitable unprofitable

profitably unprofitably

pronounce pronunciation mispronoun mispronunciation ce propose

proposal

protect

protection

prove disprove

proof disproof

publicise

publicity

public

punctuality

punctual

punish

punishment

purify

purify impurify

protective

pure impure

qualify

qualification

qualified disqualified

quarrel

quarrel

quarrelsome

rapidity, rapidness realise

rapid

rapidly

real, unreal, realisation, reality, realistic, realist unrealistic reason

reasonable, unreasonable

receive

receiver, receipt, recipient, reception, receptionist

receptive, unreceptive

recognise

recognition

recognisable unrecognisable

reasonably, unreasonably

recommend recommendation reduce

reduction

reflect

reflection

regret

regret

regrettable, regretful

regularise

regularity irregularity

regular irregular

refer

reference, referee, referent

referent

refuse

refusal

relieve

relief religion

religious unreligious

repeat

repetition

repeatable unrepeatable

reside

residence, resident residential

resign

resignation

respect

respect, respectability, disrespect

respond

response

respectful, respectable, unrespectable

responsibility,irres responsible, ponsibility irresponsible enrich

richness

rob

robber, robbery romantic, unromantic

roughness

rough

royalty

royal

sadness

sad

satisfy

satisfaction dissatisfaction

satisfied unsatisfied satisfactory unsatisfactory

save

safety safe

safe unsafe

scarcity

scarce

scene scenery

scenic

science scientist

scientific

sadden

respectably, respectfully

responsibly, irresponsibly

rich

romance roughen

regrettably

romantically

scientifically

season

seasonal

secure

security

secure insecure

select

selection

selective

sense

sensation sensitive insensitive senseless sensible insensible sensational

separate

sepatation

separate separable inseparable

serve

service servant

sense

shade

shady

shame

shame

shameless ashamed shameful

sharpen

sharpness

sharp

shorten

shortage

short

sign

signature silence

silent

similarity dissimilarity

similar dissimilar

simplify

simplicity

simple

situate

situation sincerity

sincere

sleep

sleep sleeper

sleepy sleepless asleep

slip

slip slipper

slippery

smooth

smoothness

smooth

soften

softness

soft

solve

solution sorrow

sorry sorrowful

speak

speech

speechless

spell misspell

spelling misspelling

stabilize

stability instability stable unstable

state

statement stone

stony

simply

sleepily

stop

stopper stoppage

straighten

straightness

straight

strengthen

strength

strong

stupidity

stupid

success

successful

sun

sunny suntanned sunburned

suffice

sufficiency

sufficient insufficient

support

support supporter

supportive

suspect

suspect

suspicious unsuspicious

sweeten

seetness

sweet

succed

systematize system

systematic unsystematic

sympathise sympathy

sympathetic unsympathetic

talk

talk

talkative

taste

taste taster tastefulness tastelessness

tasty tasteful tasteless

tend

tendency

thicken

thickness

thick

think

thought

thoughtful

threaten

threat

tighten

tightness

entitle

title

toughen

toughness

translate

translation translator

treat

treatment

entrust

type

tastefully tastelessly

tight tough

trouble

troublesome

truth truthfulness

true truthful

trust trustee

trustworthy

type

typical untypical

typist typeface typesetter typewriter

typewritten

truly

unite

union unit unity

urge

urgency

use

use user usefulness useful useless

urgent

urgently

vacant vacancy vaccinat vaccination vaccine e validate validity

valid invalid

value

value

valuable invaluable

vary

variety variation variability

variable invariable variably various invariably

vibrate

vibration

vibrant

violence

violent

visibility invisibility invisibleness

visible invisible

visualise

visual

wake awake, awaken

awake

warm

warmth

warm

wave

wavy

wealth

wealthy

weaken

weakness

weak

weigh

weight weightiness

weightless

widen

width

wide widespread

wisdom

wise unwise

wool

woollen

work

valuably invaluably

visibly invisibly

work worker workshop workless worth

youth young youngster youthfulness zealous

worthless worthy

young younger youthful

zealously

youthfully

zeal zealousn ess zealot zip unzip zip zipper zipfastener zological

zoo zoologist zoology