CHAPTER XI

Unit 31

227. Analogical Word-Endings—Joined

     Note: Occasionally a disjoined prefix precedes a joined suffix, as in circumspect and introspect, in which case the disjoined sign is written above.

     *The "jog" is omitted in the termination -nment.

228.  Key to Analogical Word-Endings

     1. subscribe, subscription, describe, description, inscribe, prescription.
     2. ancient, patient, impatient, efficient, efficiency, deficient, deficiency.
     3. compose, composition, propose, proposition, suppose, supposition, dispose, disposition, oppose, opposition.
     4. repute, reputation, dispose, disputation, compute, computation, impair, amputation.
     5. secure, picture, feature, nature, creature, departure.
     6. actual, mutual, equal, eventual, continual.
     7. inspect, inspection, prospect, prospective, expectation, circumspect, introspection.
     8. require, inquire, acquire, requirement, acquires.
     9. expire, inspire, conspire, transpire, perspire, aspire.
     10. expensive, extensive, comprehensive, offensive, intensive, defensive.
     11. agency, emergency, exigency, urgency, contingency.
     12. assure, leisure, pressure, measure, treasure, injure.
     13. reflect, reflection, inflict, infliction, conflict, confliction.
     14. insult, result, consult, consultation.
     15. assignment, refinement, consignment, adjournment.

229.  Reading and Dictation Practice