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

What does the suffix -ous mean?

• characterized by

• a person who

• in the direction of

• study of

What does the suffix -ance mean?

• condition of or process of doing something

• a person who

• in the direction of

• study of

Eat a ________ breakfast daily.

(characterized by nutrition)

• nutritious

• continuous

• mountainous

• annoyance

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

(process of persevering)

• perseverance

• patience

• tolerance

• annoyance

The terrain was ________.

(characterized by mountains)

• continuous

• annoyance

• courageous

• mountainous

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

(condition of being patient)

• annoyance

• patience

• radiance

• perseverance

A _____ rain caused floods.

(characterized by continuing)

• hazardous

• mountainous

• continuous

• nutritious

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

(condition of being annoying)

• annoyance

• elegance

• tolerance

• defiance

What a _____ girl she is!

(process of showing courage)

• nutritious

• courageous

• perseverance

• tolerance

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)

• elegance

• dominance

• perseverance

• tolerance