Tutor Vocabulary Quiz - Meanings of Suffixes

For instance, a conservatory is sometimes called a 'solarium', a place for the sun.

The root 'caedere' means to cut off, which explains why miticides kill mites. Weirdly, the word 'decide' can quite literally be read as 'to cut off'

Picturesque: vivid, like a picture.

Sympathy, empathy, psychopathy.

Likewise, clockwise, crabwise.

Meiosis, osmosis, mitosis.

Nostalgia ( a sweet but painful memory of the past ).

Democracy actually means power (cracy) of the people (demos).

Underling, duckling, sibling.

An anglophone is someone who speaks English.