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B Vocabulary

B1. There are six families of words in the grid below. Each family has fi ve

members. Iden fy the families and list their members. One family has
been iden fi ed for you.

chemicals radio quench magazine phosphorous

blaze science platform telephone handicap

weekly smoke deaf electric bulb periodical
weak newspaper fire coach phonograph

experiment flame train laboratory conductor

boxcar newsboy fragile telegraph strong

Family 1 Family 2 Family 3 Family 4 Family 5 Family 6

chemicals

experiment

science
laboratory

phosphorous

Making New Words

Look at the way the following words from the lesson have been split:

invention – invent + ion

hardship – hard + ship
operator – operat(e) + or

teacher – teach + er

We can make new words by adding a group of letters to a word. The group of
letters added at the end of a word to make a new word is called a suffix. By adding
a suffix we get a new word whose meaning is different but related to the original

word.

By adding the suffix -ion to the verb invent we got the noun invention, which means
‘something that is invented’.

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