various
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How that family writes these sounds
| the abstract endings | -tion/-sion, -ity, -ous, -ate, -al, -ive, -arynation, gravity, various, create, legal, active |
What gives it away on the page
| -tion/-sion, -ity, -ous, -ate, -al, -ive, -ary | The standard Latin suffix set, usually stacked on a Latin root.nation, gravity, various, create, legal, active |
Placing it without the spelling
| abstraction, law, administration — words written before they're spoken | Latinnation, gravity, various, accept |
| three or more syllables, stress in the middle, audibly assembled from parts | Latinimmediate, obstruct, various |
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