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WORD BUILDING VERB

NOUN

ADJECTIVE (+)

ADJECTIVE (-)

ADVERB

Act

Action

Active

Inactive

Actively

Admire

Admiration

Admirable

---

Admirably

Advise

Advice

Advisable

Inadvisable

Affect

Effect

Effective

Ineffective

Effectively

Agree

Agreement

Agreeable

Disagreeable

Agreeably

Ambition

Ambitious

Ambitiously

Amuse

Amusement

Amused-amusing

Amusingly

Excite

Excitement

Excited- exciting

Excitedly

Apologise

Apology

Apologetic

Apologetically

Appear

Appearance

Apparent

Apparently

Arrange

Arrangement

Arrive

Arrival

Assist

Assistance/ Assistant

Associate

Association

Attend

Attention/ Attendance

Attentive

Attentively

Attract

Attraction

Attractive

Unattractive

Avoid

Avoidance

Avoidable

Unavoidable

Beauty

Beautiful

Blood

Bleeding

Bravery

Brave

Bravely

Brightness

Bright

Brightly

Caution

Cautious

Cautiously

Care

Careful

Careless

Change

Changeable

Unchangeable

Child/ Childhood

Childish

Comfort

Comfort

Comfortable

Uncomfortable

Comfortably

Compare

Comparison

Comparable

Incomparable

Comparably

Bleed

Brighten

Change

Attractively

Beautifully

Carefully / Carelessly

Childishly


Cook

Cook / cooker

Cookery

Correct

Correction

Correct

Encourage

Courage

Discourage

Discouragement

Create

Creation/Creature

Creative

Creatively

Criticize

Critic/Criticism

Critical

Critically

Curiosity

Curious

Curiously

Cruelty

Cruel

Cruelly

Endanger

Danger

Dangerous Endangered

Dangerously

Darken

Darkness

Dark

Darkly

Day

Daily

Daily

Deceit

Deceitful

Deceitfully

Decide

Decision

Decisive

Deepen

Depth

Deep

Depend

Dependence/ Independence

Dependent

Independent

Describe

Description

Descriptive/ Describable

Indescribable

Destroy

Destruction

Destructive

Non-destructive

Develop

Development

DevelopingDeveloped

Die

Death

Dead/ Deadly

Differ

Difference

Different

Indifferent

Differently

Direct

Direction/Director

Direct

Indirect

Directly

Discover

Discovery

Discovered

Discuss

Discussion

Incorrect

Courageous Encouraged Encouraging Discouraged Discouraging

Correctly Courageously

Indecisive

Decisively Deeply

Destructively

Deadly

Distance

Distant

Doubt

Doubtful

Dust/ duster

Dusty

Ease

Easy

Educate

Education

Educational

Educationally

Embarrass

Embarrassment

Embarrassing / Embarrassed

Embarrassingly

Doubt

Doubtfully

Uneasy

Easily


Employ

Employment / Unemployment/ Employee/ Employer

Employed / unemployed

Enjoy

Joy / enjoyment

Enjoyable

Enter

Entrance

Spend

Expense

Expensive

Inexpensive

Explain

Explanation

Explicable

Inexplicable

Explode

Explosion

Express

Expression / Expressiveness

Expressive

Inexpressive

Fail

Failure Fame

Famous

Infamous

Fashion

Fashionable

Unfashionable

Fat / Fatness

Fat / Fattening

Fault

Faulty

Faultless

Fear

Fear

Afraid/ Fearful

Fearless

Fit

Fitness

Fit

Unfit

Forget

Forgetfulness

Forgetful

Fortune/Misfortune

Fortunate

Unfortunate

Fortunately

Formalise

Formality

Formal

Informal

Formally

Free

Freedom

Free

Frequency

Frequent

Infrequent

Friend/Friendship

Friendly

Unfriendly

Furniture

Furnished

Unfurnished

Generosity

Generous

Gold

Golden

Govern

Government

Governmental

Grow

Growth

Growing

Guilt

Guilty

Happiness/ Unhappiness

Happy

Hate

Hatred

Hateful

Heal

Health

Healthy

Fatten

Furnish

Enjoyably

Freely Frequently

Generously

Guiltily Unhappy

Happily

Unhealthy

Healthily


Heat

Heat / Heater

Hot

Height

High

Hero/ Heroine/ Heroism

Heroic

Honesty

Honest

Hunger

Hungry

Ice

Icy

Identify

Identification

Identified

Unidentified

Image

Image/ Imagination

Imaginary / Imaginative

Unimaginative

Imitate

Imitation Importance

Important

Unimportant

Impress

Impression

Impressive

Improve

Improvement

Influence

Influence

Injure

Injury

Interest

Innocent

Interest

Interested

Jealousy

Jealous

Know

Knowledge

Laugh

Laughter

Lead - mislead

Leader - Leadership

Legalise

Legality- Illegality

Lend

Loan

Lengthen

Length

Long

Lighten

Light – Lighter Lighthouse

Light

Live

Life

Live- Lively – Alive

Loneliness

Lonely – Alone

Loyalty Luck Management

Marry

Marriage

Dishonest

Honestly Hungrily

Imaginatively

Impressively

Influential

Innocence

Manage

Heroically

Innocently Uninterested Jealously Knowingly

Laughable

Legal

Illegal

Legally

Loyal

Disloyal

Loyally

Lucky

Unlucky

Luckily

Married

Unmarried


MountainMountaineer

Mountainous

Measurement

Measurable

Immeasurable

Morality

Moral

Immoral

Mother- Motherhood

Motherly

Multiplication

Multiple

Mystery

Mysterious

Necessity/Need

Necessary

Noise

Noisy

Obey

Obedience

Obedient

Oblige

Obligation

Obligatory

Occasion

Occasional

Office

Official

Unofficial

Officially

Patience

Patient

Impatient

Patiently

Payment

Payable-Paid

Unpaid

Peculiarity

Peculiar

Permission

Permissive

Person- Personality

Personal

Impersonal

Personally

Perfection

Perfect

Imperfect

Perfectly

Measure

Multiply

Need

Own

Pay

Permit

Morally

Mysteriously Unnecessary

Necessarily Noisily

Disobedient

Obediently

Occasionally

Owner-Ownership

Peculiarly

Perform

Performance

Please

Pleasure

Pleasant

Pleasantly

Politics - Politician

Political

Politically

Poison

Poisonous

Popularity – Population

Popular

Poverty

Poor

Possibility

Possible

Pride

Proud

Populate

Imprison

Produce

Unpopular Poorly Impossible

Possibly Proudly

Prison- Prisoner Imprisonment Probability

Probable

Improbable

Production- ProductProducer

Productive

Unproductive

Probably


Profession

Professional

Unprofessional

Professionally

Profit

Profit

Profitable

Unprofitable

Pronounce mispronounce

Pronunciation

Propose

Proposal

Protect

Protection

Prove

Proof

Punish

Punishment

Quarrel

Quarrel

Quarrelsome

Realise

Reality

Real-Realistic

UnrealUnrealistic

Really

Reason

Reasonable

Unreasonable

Reasonably

Unpronounceable

Protective

Protectively

Recommend

Recommendation

Regret

Regret

Regretful

Regularity

Regular

Irregular

Regularly

Religion

Religious

Unreligious

Religiously

Respect

RespectfulRespectable

Unrespectable

Respectably

Responsibility

Responsible

Irresponsible

Responsibly

Romance

Romantic

Unromantic

Romantically

Satisfy

Satisfaction

SatisfiedSatisfactory

UnsatisfiedUnsatisfactory

Save

Safety- Safe

Safe

Unsafe

Science -Scientist

Scientific

Security

Secure

Insecure

Sense - Sensation

SensitiveSensible

InsensitiveSenselessInsensible

Shame

Shameful

Shameless

Shorten

Shortage

Short

Sign

Signature

Refuse

Refusal

Relieve

Relief

Respect

Rob

Secure

Serve

Robber- Robbery

Safely Scientifically

Sensibly Sensitively

Service-Servant

Shortly


Silence

Silent

Silently

Simplify

Simplicity

Simple

Simply

Sleep

Sleep

Sleepy - Asleep

Slip

Slip- Slipper

Slippery

Soften

Softness

Soft

Speak

Speech

Strengthen

Strength

Strong

Strongly

Succeed

Success

Successful

Successfully

Suspect

Suspect

Suspicious

Sweeten

Sweetness

Sweet

Talk

Talk

Talkative

Tend

Tendency

Thicken

Thickness

Thick

Think

Thought

Thoughtful

Threaten

Threat

Treat

Treatment

Sleepless

Softly Speechless

Unsuspicious

Suspiciously Sweetly

Thoughtfully

Trouble

Troublesome

Use

Use-Usefulness

Useful

Useless

Value

Value

Valuable

Invaluable

Vary

Variety

Variable

Invariable

Violence

Violent

Visibility

Visible

Wave

Wavy

Wealth

Wealthy

Weaken

Weakness

Weak

Widen

Width

Wide-Widespread

Wisdom

Wise

Wool

Woollen

Worth

Worthy

Youth, youngster

Young

Violently Invisible

Weakly

Unwise

Worthless

Wisely



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