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English for Tourism & Hospitality (108) by Prof. Adel AlSheikh 2020/2021

poetic

-ious, having qualities of gracious, cautious,
-ous humorous, fabulous

-ive quality or nature of creative, expensive,
expressive, pensive

-less without something hopeless, faultless,
fearless, restless

-y made up of or brainy, fruity, tasty,
characterized by grouchy

Verb Suffixes

suffix meaning example
-ed
-en past-tense version of laughed, climbed, called,
-ize, -ise
-ate a verb missed
-ify -efy
become soften, fasten, lengthen,
strengthen, blacken

to cause or to become memorialize, authorize,
commercialize, advertise

to do, make or decorate, formulate,

become fabricate

to make Beautify, humidify,

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