Suffixes Quiz

Suffixes
from http://a4esl.org/q/h/9704/jj-suffixes.html

1.
Which of the following words cannot use the suffix -ful?
a. color-
b. doubt-
c. hope-
d. joy-
e. value-
2.
Which of the following cannot use the suffix -ive?
a. conclus-
b. decis-
c. impress-
d. reduct-
e. reveal-
3.
Which of the following cannot use the suffix -ial?
a. commerc-
b. debat-
c. mart-
d. part-
e. spac-
4.
Which of the following cannot use the suffix -ure?
a. clos-
b. depart-
c. fiss-
d. lect-
e. polit-
5.
Which of the following cannot use the suffix -ion?
a. collect-
b. correct-
c. exhaust-
d. predict-
e. put-
6.
Which of the following cannot use the suffix -ance?
a. allow-
b. brief-
c. deliver-
d. repent-
e. vigil-
7.
Which of the following cannot use the suffix -ness?
a. cheerful-
b. dark-
c. gentle-
d. honest-
e. small-
8.
Which of the following cannot use the suffix -ward?
a. down-
b. for-
c. heaven-
d. home-
e. house-
9.
Which of the following cannot use the suffix -less?
a. care-
b. fear-
c. grand-
d. power-
e. thought-

On Language Daffinitions

On Language

1. A bicycle can't stand alone because it is two-tired.
2. What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway)
3. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
4. A backward poet writes inverse.
5. In democracy it's your vote that counts. In feudalism it's your count that votes.
6. She had a boyfriend with a wooden leg, but broke it off.
7. A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
8. If you don't pay your exorcist you get repossessed.
9. With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.
10. Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I'll show you A-flat minor.
11. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
12. The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.
13. A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blown apart.
14. You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
15. Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN downunder.
16. He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
17. Every calendar's days are numbered.
18. A lot of money is tainted. 'Taint yours and 'taint mine.
19. A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
20. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
21. A plateau is a high form of flattery.
22. The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.
23. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
24. When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.
25. Those who jump off a Paris bridge are in Seine.
26. When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair she thought she'd dye.
27. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
28. Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
29. Acupuncture is a jab well done.
30. Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat

Money Vocabulary

Money
The words below are some of the most important used when talking about Money.
Money - Banking
account
bank statement
bankrupt
borrow
budget
cash
cashier
check
traveler's check
credit (card)
currency
debt
deposit
exchange rate
interest (rate)
invest
investment
lend
loan
mortgage
owe
pay
save
savings
shares
withdraw
Money - Buying
bargain
bill
cost
expense
installments
price
purchase
purse
receipt
reduction
refund
spend
wallet
Money - Earning
bonus
earn
earnings
income
gross income
net income
rise
salary
wage
Money - Giving
collection
donate
donation
fee
fine
grant
income tax
inherit
inheritance
pension
pocket money
rent
scholarship
tip
winnings
Money - Verbs
add up
go up / down
make ends meet
pay back
pay into
put down
put towards
run out
save up
take out
Money - Other Related Words
profit
property
valuable
value
waste of money
wealth
worth
worthless
Money - Related Adjectives
affluent
broke
generous
hard-up
mean
poor
prosperous
rich
stingy
wealthy
well off

Color-related Idioms

Color-related Idioms



--> black

black and blue - bruised [from appearance]

black and white - clearly distinct or different [as in "as different as black and white"]

obvious and clear, as in print [as in "there it is, in black and white"]

black humor in literature, drama, and film, grotesque or morbid

black market market where all commerce is conducted without regard to taxation, law or regulations of trade

black out - to lose consciousness

black sheep - outcast, esp. of a family [as a single black sheep among a family of white sheep]

black tie - formal [from appropriate dress]

blackball

blacklist

blackout - loss of electricity

blackmail - to use detrimental information as leverage in controlling the actions (often extorting payment) of others

in the black

the pot calling the kettle black - a worse offender [citing the guilt of] a lesser offender

--> blue

blue - sad

blue blood - royal, regal

blue funk - very depressed [as in "she was in a blue funk"]

blue law

blue Monday

blue movies - movies with explicit sex

blue print

blue ribbon - first rate [from the customary award given for first place]

blue stocking

blue streak

blue-collar workers - laborers

blue-pencil

once in a blue moon

out of the blue

sing the blues; have the blues

true blue

--> brown

brown out - partial loss of electricity

brown nose - slightly vulgar, refers to flattering someone in a position of power in order to obtain favors

in a brown study - seriously contemplating something

--> gray

gray area - a context or section, as of a law, which is easily disputable; a "murky area"

gray matter - brain (the organ) intelligence

--> green

chiste verde ("green joke") - In Spanish, a dirty joke

green around the gills

green light

green with envy

having a green thumb - able to make plants grow well

Things are starting to green up around here - Spring has arrived [the color of new vegetation that comes with spring]

--> pink

in the pink

pink lady - an alcoholic drink

pink slip

pink-collar workers - office workers, esp women

pinkies - the little fingers

tickled pink

--> purple

born to the purple

purple passion

purple prose

--> red

in the red

one red cent

red eye

red flag

red herring - a topic thrown into a discussion in order to mislead

red hot - exciting

red hots - small spicy candies

red meat - beef

red neck

red tape - bureaucratic seemingly time-wasting paperwork

red-faced - embarrassed

red-handed - in the middle of the act

red-letter day

roll out the red carpet

to see red

--> rose

rose-colored glasses

rosy

--> white

white as a sheet - pale, frightened

white elephant

white flag

white heat

white lie

white paper

white tie

white-collar workers - management

whitewash

--> yellow

yellow - cowardly

yellow journalism

"Yellow Peril" - the (quite exaggerated) fear of the large population of China and its population growth rate

yellow-dog

to have a yellow streak down one's back - cowardly

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Ref: The Linguistic Fun Page | Ojo Haven

British and American English

AMERICAN	BRITISH
a knockout (sl. beautiful)	a stunner (sl.)
a little bit	a spot (sl.)
abridgment	abrigement
acknowledgment	acknowledgement
ad (sl.)	advert (sl.)
airplane	aeroplane
aisle	gangway
alley	mews
aluminum	aluminium
analyze	analyse
anemia	anaemia
anesthetic	anaesthetic
annex	annexe
apartment	mansion flat
apprise/apprize	apprise
amortize	amortise/amortize
ardor	ardour
baby buggy (sl.)	pram (sl. perambulator)
babysitter	child-minder
bar
bartender	landlord
bathroom	loo (sl.)
bathroom	+lavatory
beat (sl. tired)	fagged
biscuit	scone
big deal (sl.)	big noise (sl.)
blacktop	macadam
brash	cheeky (sl.)
breakfast sausage	banger (sl.)
bucks (sl. dollars)	quid (sl. pounds)
buffet	set meal
buggy (4 wheel carriage)	buggy (2 wheel carriage)
bum (sl. vagrant)	+tramp
bum (sl. vagrant)	bum (sl. backside)
burglary	house-breaking
cafeteria	refrectory
can (metal container)	tin
can (sl. jail)	nick (sl. gaol)
can (sl. backside)	bum (sl.)
caliber	calibre
call up (telephone)	ring up
cark shark (sl. gambler)	card sharper (sl.)
center	centre
cinder road	metalled roadway
check	cheque
checkers (game)	draughts
clerk (KLERK)	clerk (KLAHRK)
closet (clothes closet)	closet (toilet)
closet (clothes closet)	cupboard (clothes closet)
color	colour
corn	+Indian corn
connection	connexion
confused	fogged (sl.)
cookie	biscuit
cop (police officer)	bobby
county court	assize
coveralls	boiler suit
crap (sl. worthless)	rot (sl.)
crooked (illegal)	bent (sl.)
curb	kerb
dead on (sl.)	bang on
defense	defence
deflection	deflexion (but not in engineering)
derby (hat)	bowler
detour	diversion
dialyze	dialyse
diarrhea	diarrhoea
diner	chop house
disbarred	struck off
disgusting	off-putting
dishrag	dish mop
discount store	cut-price shop
dock	quay
draft beer	draught beer
dresser	+wardrobe
dude	tosh (sl.)
ecology	oecology (old sp.)
edema	oedema
efficiency apartment	bed-sit
electrolyze	>electrolyse
elevator	lift
engineer (railroad)	engine driver
enrollment	enrolment
eolian	aeolian
esophagus	oesophagus
estrogen	oestrogen
etiology	aetiology
favor	favour
favorite	favourite
fender (of a car)	wing
fervor	fervour
festive gathering	jollities (sl.)
fetus	foetus
fiber	fibre
fire department	fire brigade
fired	sacked
first floor	ground floor
flashlight	torch
flavor	flavour
fooling around	messing about or mucking about (sl.)
for rent	to let
freeway	motorway
freight train	goods train
French	Frog (sl.)
french fries	chips
fuel oil	petrol
gasoline (or gas)	petrol
gas	cooking gas
garbage can	dustbin
garbage dump	rubbish tip
genuflection	genuflexion
get lost! (sl. leave)	push off! (sl.)
glasses	+spectacles (sl. specs)
gray (color)	grey (colour)
grounded (electrical)	earthed
got	have gotten
hand drill	brace and bit
hang around (sl. loiter)	hang about (sl.)
hang up (telephone)	ring off
hardware store	ironmongers
harbor	harbour
hemoglobin	haemoglobin
hearing aid	deaf aid
hiccup	hiccough
honor	honour
hood	bonnet
horn (of a car)	hooter
hubcap	+wheel cover
humor	humour
inflection	inflexion
installment plan	hire-purchase
intermission	interval
jail	gaol
janitor	porter
jewelry	jewellery
judgment	judgement
kind of	+rather
knock up (sl. get pregnant)	knock up (sl. wake up)
labor	labour
lawyer	barrister
lawyer	soliciter
leather neck (sl. US Marine)	jollies (sl. Royal Marines)
legal holiday	bank holiday
leveling	levelling
license	licence (n.; v.= license)
line	que
lining up	queueing
lodgment	lodgement
long distance (telephone)	trunk call
looney	dottie (sl.)
loot	boodle, swag (sl.)
luggage	baggage
luster	lustre
mail	post
mail	letter
mailbox	postbox or pillar box
mailman	+postman
maneuver	manoeuvre
marvelous	marvellous
men's room	gents (sl.)
messy	shabby
meter (unit)	metre
meter (as in voltmeter)	meter
mist	damp
mold	mould
molder	moulder
molt	moult
mom (mother)	mum
movie	film
movie theater	cinema
municipal judge	magistrate
neighbor	neighbour
newsstand	kiosk
notary public	commisioner of oaths
nuts (sl. crazy)	dotty (sl.)
offense	offence
orchestra seat	stall
organize	organise
overdraw (an account)	overdraft
overpass (highway)	flyover
pad (sl. house)	digs (sl.)
pal (sl. friend)	fellow, chap (sl.)
pants	trousers
paralyze	paralyse
parking lot	motor park
penny (cent)	pence
picked up (arrested)	nicked (sl.)
pharmacist	chemist
phone booth	call box
phony	phoney
photo flash	flashlight
plain	moor
plow	plough
practice	practise (v.; n.= practice)
pretense	pretence
program	programme
pulled up	drew up
radio	wireless
railroad car	railroad carriage
rain cape	ulster
raincoat	mackintosh (or mac sl.)
research scientist	boffin (sl.)
red hair	ginger hair (sl.)
restroom	lavatory
rigor	rigour
root beer	ginger beer
rubber boots	gum boots
rubbers	galoshes
rumble seat	dickey seat (sl.)
savor	savour
sawed	sawn
scallion	spring onion
schedule (SKED-JEWL)	scedule (SHED-DUAL)
Scotch tape	celotape
scratch pad	scribbling block
second floor	first floor
sepulcher	sepulchre
set the table	lay the table
sewers	drains
sidewalk	path or footpath
shoes	boots
shoeshine boy	bootblack
shorts (underwear)	pants
show up (sl. arrive)	pop in (sl.)
shower	shower bath
smelled	smelt
smolder	smoulder
somber	sombre
space heater	electric fire
speakeasy (sl.)	off licence (sl.)
specter	spectre
speedboat	engine boat
stand (law court)	dock
station wagon	estate car
stool pigeon (sl. informer)	grass (sl.)
store	shop
streaked with...	shot through with...
streetcar	tram
subway	underground
subway station	tube station
suspenders	braces
swamp	bog or mire
swimming pool	swimming bath
switch (railroad)	points
tailored shirt maker	bespoke shirtmaker
takeout (food)	takeaways
taxes	rates
taxpayers	ratepayers
taxi	cab
theater	theatre
thumbtacks	drawing pins
time= HH:MM	time=HH.MM
trailer	caravan
trench coat	duffle coat
truck (motor truck)	lorry
truck (railroad car wheels)bogie
trunk (of a car)	boot
tire	tyre
toilet	water closet (W.C.)
traffic cirle	roundabout
tumor	tumour
TV (sl.)	telly (sl.)
undershirt	vest
vacation	holiday
vacuum tube	valve
valet (military)	batman
vapor	vapour
vaudeville	music hall
vest	waistcoat
vise (tool, clamp)	vice
wagon	waggon
watch out for the...	mind the...
whiz	whizz
will	shall/will
will not	shan't
windsheild	windscreen
workman	tradesman
wrench	spanner
z (zee)	z (zed)

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