AFOQT Word Knowledge - Suffixes

able, ible

e.g. visible

capable

age

e.g. wreckage

to do something

al

e.g. gradual

having the form or character of

algia

e.g. myalgia

pain

an, ian

e.g. riparian

belonging to

ance, ancy

e.g. defiance

process of doing something

ary, ery, ory

e.g. aviary

relating to

cian

e.g. physician

processing a specific skill or art

cule, ling

e.g. sapling, animalcule

very small

cy

e.g. normalcy

condition, rank

dom

e.g. wisdom

realm

ee

e.g. nominee

one who receives the action

en

e.g. silken

made of

ence, ency

e.g. urgency

state of being

er, or

e.g. professor

one who does an action

escent

e.g. adolescent, senescence

in the process of

esis, osis

e.g. genesis, neurosis

process, abnormal condition

et, ette

e.g. baronet, lorgnette

small one

fic

e.g. specific

making

ful

e.g, frightful

full of

hood

e.g. adulthood

character

ice

e.g. malice

indicating state or quality

id, ide

e.g. bromide

connected with

ile

e.g. puerile, juvenile

capability

ine

e.g. feminine

like

ion, sion, tion

e.g. contagion

result

ish

e.g. impish

origin

ism

e.g. capitalism

system

ist

e.g. artist, flautist

one who is interested in

ite

e.g. graphite

associated with

ity, ty

e.g. captivity

state of

ive

e.g. exhaustive

tending to do something specified

ize, ise

e.g. idolize, bowdlerize

make

ment

e.g. containment

result of an action

nomy

e.g. autonomy, taxonomy

law

old

e.g. asteroid, anthropoid

resembling

some

e.g. grusome

specified feeling

strat

e.g. strata

cover

tude

e.g. aptitude

indicating state or condition

um

e.g. spectrum

forms single nouns

ure

e.g. rupture, rapture

action

ward

e.g. backward

in the direction of

y

e.g. faulty

inclined to