WORD FORMATION (Unit 11) – 10CA

1. noble (a) ≠ ignoble (a)  (ig)nobly (adv)  nobility (n)

 ennoble (v)

2. annual (a)  annually (adv)

 biannual (a) v.s biennial (a)  biannually (twice/year) / biennially (once/2years) (adv)

3. preserve (v) / (n) = reserve (n)  (self-)preservation (n)

 preserver (n) v.s preservationist (n)
 preservative (a) / (n)  preservative-free (a)
 well-preserved (a)

4. reserve (v) / (n) = preserve (n)  reservation (n)

 reservoir (n)
 (un)reserved (a)  unreservedly (adv)

5. promote (v)  promotion (n)  promotional (a)

≠ demote (v)  demotion (n)
 self-promotion (n)

6. (im)balance (n) / (un)balance (v)  (well-)balanced (a) ≠ unbalanced (a)

 overbalance (v)
 counterbalance (n) / (v)

7. climate (n)  climatic (a)  climatically (adv)

 climate-wise (adv)
 climatology (n)  climatological (a)  climatologist (n)
 acclimatize (acclimate) (v) (to sth)  acclimatization (acclimation) (n)

8. sum (n) (In sum)

 summary (n) / (a)  summarize (v)
 summing-up (n) (pl. summings-up)
 zero-sum (a) (… game) (collo)
 consummate (a) (usu. before N) = extremely skilled; perfect  consummately (adv)
(v) = make sth complete or perfect  consummation (n)

9. (re)visit (v) / (n)  visitor (n)  visitation (n) (… rights) (collo)

10. predict (v)  prediction (n)

 (un)predictable (a)  (un)predictably (adv)  (un)predictability (n)
 predictive (a)
 predictor (n)

11. species (a)  (non-)specific (a) / (n) (specifics = distinct items/details; particulars)
 speciesism (n)  speciesist (a) / (n)
 subspecies (n)
12. construct (v)  constructor (n)  construction (n)  constructional (a)
 constructive (a)  constructively (adv)
 construction (n) v.s constructiveness (n)
 deconstruct (v)  deconstruction (n)  deconstructionist (a) / (n)
 misconstruction (n)
 reconstruct (v)  reconstruction (n)  unreconstructed (a)
 construe (v) = interpret (v) ≠ misconstrue (v)

13. protect (v)  protection (n)  protector (n)  (over)protective (a)

 protection (n) v.s protectiveness (n)
 (un)protected (a)
 self-protection (n)
 protectorate (n)
 protectionism (n)
 write-protect (v)

14. symptom (n)  (a)symptomatic (a)

15. permit (v) / (n)  permission (n)

 (im)permissible (a) v.s permissive (a)  permissiveness (n)

16. maintain (v)  maintenance (n)

 high-maintenance (a) = needing a lot of attention or effort ≠ low-maintenance (a)

17. (dis)establish (v)  (dis)establishment (n)  (well-)established (a)

 old-established (a)

18. damage (v) // damage (n) (to sb/sth) (do damage to sb/sth) // damages (n)
 damaging (a) // (un)damaged (a)
 indemnify (v)  indemnification (n)

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