3A - WORD FORMATION - prefixes / sufixes

1. I don’t think I’ll try that dish it doesn’t

look …………………… to me.

• a) eatable / edible

• b) eating

• c) ate

• d) eaten

What is a synonym of rude?

• a. inpolite

• b. dispolite

• c. unpolite

• d. impolite

She loves chocolate cakes. She finds them absolutely ……………………

• a) unresistible

• b) irresistible

• c) disresistible

• d) inresistible

You are such an …………………… person. Why can’t you wait quietly?

• a) impatient

• b) inpatient

• c) unpatient

• d) dispatient

I am sure the second accident wouldn’t have happened, if the police had taken adequate …………………… measures.

• a) safely

• b) safer

• c) safety

• d) safeness

The world would be much better place to live only if people were not so ……………… to different political views or religious beliefs.

• a) tolerate

• b) tolerance

• c) tolerant

• d) intolerante

Everybody is ……………… in one way or another. We should learn to overlook them.

• a) non-perfect

• b) perfection

• c) imperfect

• d) perfected

Which form of ‘learn’ starts this sentence? ‘…………… English is not as hard as you think.’

• a) To learn

• b) Learn

• c) Learning

• d) Learnt

My new car is more ……………than my last one. I get nearly 100 kms. to 5 litres of petrol.

• a) economical

• b) economic

• c) economise

• d) economics

Which word doesn’t make a word with _able? e.g. countable

• a. help

• b. understand

• c. rely

• d. respect