Word Formation: Suffixes

Instructions: Choose the correct suffix word for each statement.

For their own ____________ the visitors of zoos are kept at a distance.

• safeness
• safety
• safely

You should take the antibiotics for a whole week so that it is ____________ .

• effectiveness
• effectively
• effective

Jane has been suffering from headaches ____________ .

• lateness
• lately
• latency

Chris accepted the doctor’s news although it was very ____________ to hear.

• painful
• painless
• pained
• painfully

This area is very dry, and____________ is very difficult.

• farmed
• farmable
• farming

The book contains a ____________ of anecdotes from the past decades.

• collectiveness
• collectly
• collection

Jack, who was an excellent shooter, ____________ missed his target.

• repetition
• repetitive
• repeatedly
• repertoire

My teacher has been putting together ____________ articles for the yearbook.

• interesting
• interested
• interestingly

____________ farmers in Japan have figured out a way to produce square-shaped watermelons.

• innovated
• innovation
• innovator
• innovative

If you plan your trip carefully you will have an ____________ time in China.

• unforgettable
• forgetfulness
• forgetful
• forgivable