Vocab Suffix -ist

The __________________ created the most beautiful painting I had ever seen!

• optimist

• artist

• dentist

• specialist

Justin left school early to go to the _______________ to get a cavity in his tooth filled.

• specialist

• dentist

• naturalist

• pessimist

DeMarkus was a _____________________ in the archery competition and he eventually took Second Place.

• dentist

• finalist

• optimist

• pessimist

Because Mylie wanted to be a _____________ she got a job working on the school newspaper at her high school.

• journalist

• naturalist

• specialist

• finalist

Sean knew that he was going to improve his score on the SOL from last year because he had studied hard all year! He was an _______________.

• optimist

• pessimist

• specialist

• naturalist

Brenda thought that no matter hard hard she studied she was going to fail the test so she decided to play on the Xbox instead. She was a ________________________.

• optimist

• pessimist

• specialist

• finalist

Francis broke his arm in three places and his regular doctor sent him to a ___________________ because he needed a different kind of cast.

• specialist

• journalist

• naturalist

• pessimist

In school Kristi learned that tigers were endangered and there were only 4000 left in the world. Soon they might all be dead. She was so upset that she decided to go to college and become a _______________ and work to save the tigers!

• naturalist

• pessimist

• optimist

• specialist