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DETERMINING MEANING 1: SUFFIXES (-ance and -ous)

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does the suffix -ous mean?

a)

characterized by

b)

a person who

c)

in the direction of

d)

study of

2.

What does the suffix -ance mean?

a)

condition of or process of doing something

b)

a person who

c)

in the direction of

d)

study of

3.

Eat a ________ breakfast daily.

(characterized by nutrition)

a)

nutritious

b)

continuous

c)

mountainous

d)

annoyance

4.

When you can't figure out the answer to the math problem but you keep on trying, what are you showing?

(process of persevering)

a)

perseverance

b)

patience

c)

tolerance

d)

annoyance

5.

The terrain was ________.

(characterized by mountains)

a)

continuous

b)

annoyance

c)

courageous

d)

mountainous

6.

Which word describes what someone shows when he or she waits a long time for a turn without ever complaining?

(condition of being patient)

a)

annoyance

b)

patience

c)

radiance

d)

perseverance

7.

A _____ rain caused floods.

(characterized by continuing)

a)

hazardous

b)

mountainous

c)

continuous

d)

nutritious

8.

Every time Jackson holds his baby sister, Esther, she pulls his hair. Jackson thinks this is a bit of a _____.

(condition of being annoying)

a)

annoyance

b)

elegance

c)

tolerance

d)

defiance

9.

What a _____ girl she is!

(process of showing courage)

a)

nutritious

b)

courageous

c)

perseverance

d)

tolerance

10.

Which word described what you might show when you have to sit next to someone you really don't like, but you are kind to them anyway?

(the condition of being tolerant)

a)

elegance

b)

dominance

c)

perseverance

d)

tolerance

11.

The view from here is _____.

(condition of being elegant and beyond beautiful)

(Originated from a French word "gorgias" referring to a "gorget" a ruffle for the neck.)

a)

annoyance

b)

continuous

c)

gorgeous

d)

mountainous