Word-analysis: A Graded Class-book of English Derivative Words, with Practical Exercises in Spelling, Analyzing, Defining, Synonyms, and the Use of Words |
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abbreviation adjective is formed analysis Analyze and define animal belonging body celebrity civil Combine and define Compose a sentence consonant containing the word corporal crude Define the derivative DEFINITION distinction double drop English derivatives EXERCISE expresses Fasquelle's figurative sense final form a diminutive form a noun form a verb form an adjective French friendly fruit fy or ify Give a synonym Give a word Give the fitting Give the opposite Give two synonyms Grammar Gray's Greek hence honorable judge KERL'S Latin Latin word literal meaning meant by saying ment MODEL MODEL-"The native ness OBS.-The one's person pertaining plural polite primary meaning primitive word pronounced relating Root rule Saxon secondary meaning sentence containing signifies speak speech spell suffix less suffix ly syllable taste tence thing tion tive verb meaning vowel Woodbury's word-analysis Write a sentence
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