Word Formation

revised past papers (answer key)

Grade 9
1
1 standardised
2 laborious
3 anxiety / anxieties
4 artistic
5 growth
6 bleeding
7 entitled
8 supposedly
(1)
9 mixture
10 confidential
11 likewise
(2)
12 rectangular
13 maintenance
14 mentally
15 carpentry
(3)
16 descriptive
17 accustomed
18 uprooted
19 evolved
20 orphanage
21 pacify
22 ascertain
23 surgery
24 harmonious
25 revelation
26 typically
27 ignoble
28 receptive
29 offensive
30 indebted

2
31 expertise
32 vain
33 theoretically
34 competitors
(4)
35 inscribed
36 personnel
37 miniature
38 fraudulent
39 bureaucratic
40 commemorate
41 numerous /
innumerable /
numberless
42 spectacular
43 quarrelsome
44 carriage
45 habitually
46 fingerprints
47 evaporating
48 illuminated
49 Tragically
50 retention
51 saviour
52 booklet
53 conclusively
54 vocal
55 underprivileged
56 fabulous / fabled
(5)

57 cowardice
58 pacify
59 provocative
60 legendary

61 absorption
62 infuriated
63 deodorant
64 imperial
65 artistically
66 handful
67 obligatory
68 auctioneer
69 beneficiaries
70 impoverished
71 Norwegian
72 deterrent
73 evacuees
74 Bedridden
75 untimely
(6)
76 rectify / correct
77 respondents
78 seductively
79 spontaneity
(7)
80 omnivore
81 recruitment
82 subjectivity
83 servile
84 commemorate
(8)
85 remnants
86 playwright
87 consensus
88 additives
89 organisms
90 undoubtedly /
doubtless(ly) /
(9)
indubitably

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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9

impressively
independent
unpolluted
longest
non-existent
standing
authorised
alternatives
indistinguishable

10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26

incomparable
deadened
disgrace
native
celebrations
refusal
behavioural
misplace
flights
inexhaustible
insecticide(s)
immeasurably
ill-advised
breathless
profundity
non-appearance
spokesman /
spokeswoman /
spokesperson
dependable
standby /
stand-in
wrongdoings /
misdeeds
time-consuming
impressionable
polluting
remembrance
furthering
antiviral

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28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35

(10)

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37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65

(11)

deleterious
self-destructive
lookout
untold
inexcusably
medicinally
well-wishers
slip-up
Leadership
success
intentionally
breath-taking
breakdown
poor /
impoverished
pleasantly
reductions
preferential
deadly
captives
refusal
non-existent
attendance
management
Aquariums
empower
spoken
unawares
non-appearance
impassable
unprofessionally

66
67
68
69

underestimation
scenic
compelled
expiry /
expiration
70 tastelessness
71 indestructible
72 prayer(s)
73 multinational /
international
74 commentator
75 uneconomic(al)
76 responsive
77 belittled
78 celebratory
79 semi-finals
80 childhood
81 pleasantly
82 famine-stricken
83 break-in(s)
84 publicise
85 solidifies
86 unarguably /
inarguably
87 irreducible
88 tutorials
89 erasure
90 outstandingly
91 invulnerability
92 prioritised
93 urgency
94 ill-equipped
95 joint
96 misinformed
97 Inexperienced
98 imaginary
99 micro-organisms
100 entry

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1 discomfort
2 seasick /
(12)
nauseous
3 fertility
4 unreachable
5 assignments
6 inaccessible
7 enrichment
8 further
9 picnicking
10 encouraging
11 compulsory
12 herbicide(s)
13 outspoken
14 irreparable
15 disrespectful
16 Cookery
17 recycling
18 carefree
19 hot-tempered
20 disconnected
21 malpractice
22 uncontrollable
23 blameworthy
24 foreseeable
25 misconception
26 acquisition
27 involuntarily

6
28 commercialised
29 consumption
30 triumphant
31 ghostly
32 pleasantries
33 advisory
34 succession
35 displeasure
36 undernourished /
malnourished
37 drawbacks
38 wholeheartedness
39 disinterested
40 upbringing
41 phenomenal
42 Educationally
43 contestants
44 Zoology
45 underground
46 irreplaceable
47 duty-free
48 probability
49 proofread
50 broadening
51 flexibility
52 constraints
53 negligible
54 refrigerants

55 reluctantly
56 outbreak
57 mistreated /
maltreated /
ill-treated
58 likelihood
59 impairments
60 watchful
61 climatology
62 introductory
63 disinterested
64 worldwide
(13)
65 hard-earned
66 exactitude /
exactness
67 informative
68 Amazingly
69 availability
70 personalise
71 acknowledged
72 personifying
73 acquaintances
74 contaminants
75 surroundings
76 shortcomings
77 inexpensive
78 Basically
79 bewitching
80 infamous

11 successes
12 misappropriating
13 Hyperactive
14 premature
15 addictive
16 Urbanisation
17 entrust
18 intelligently /
intellectually
19 non-recyclable
20 impersonation

21 disillusionment
22 acknowledgement
23 unaccountably
24 inscribed
25 vanity
26 domesticated
27 unawares
28 Explanatory
29 Extrasensory
30 numerous /
innumerable /
numberless

4
1 disaster-stricken
2 correspondingly
3 Ultrasound
4 necessitate
5 underwater
6 oxygenate
7 immeasurably
8 medicinal
9 compulsory
10 worshippers

5
1 horrifies
2 mistakenly
3 irreplaceable
4 accompanied
5 likelihood
6 lessen
7 accessible
8 precautions
9 unnoticed
10 presence

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2
3
4
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4
1
2
3
4

various
meanings
communication
similarity
diversity
surprising
cultural
spiritual
tranquillity
poetic
spectacular
fragrant
voluntary
behaviour
recipient
impersonal

5 scientific
6 recently
7 proof(s)

8 collection
9 grammatical
10 agreement

5 tasty
6 seductive
7 precisely

8 addictive
9 surrendering
10 elusive

5 colonial
8 delightful
6 neighbourhood 9 accompaniment
7 modernity
10 memorable
5 obligations
6 Refusal
7 necessity

8 generosity
9 approximately
10 significant

7
1 selflessly
2 unattended
3 survivors
4 straightening
5 underestimated
6 revolutionised
7 applause
8 Illegally
(14)
9 hardened
10 indecisive
11 knowledgeable
12 boredom
13 readable

14 chaotic
15 Disused / Unused
16 prosperity
17 misbehaved
18 endanger
19 disadvantages
20 disappearance /
non-appearance
21 uncontrollably
22 Numerous /
Numberless /
Innumerable
23 sensibility
24 (un)successfully
25 deadening

26 survivors
27 ages
28 utterly
29 deafening
30 drunken
31 repellent
32 grossly
33 practically
34 massive
35 simply
36 awfully
37 relatively

5 responsibility
6 retirement
7 appearance

8 proof
9 seasonal
10 unreliable

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2
3
4

peacefully
remarkable
originally
including

COMMENTS
On compiling this booklet, I have extended the answers in such a
way as to encourage natural and contextual flexibility. I have also
tried my best to keep the original questions though some of them
really need modifying as far as accuracy is concerned. Common
misunderstandings as well as advanced extensions will be
discussed as follows.
(1)

Can you find other derivations of mix in addition to mixer, mixup, mixed-up, mixture? Be able to find more than 5 derivations.
(Those with inflectional suffixes do not count.)
(2)

The stem should be angle instead of rectangle. However, this

may cause unnecessary difficulties for students if they do not know
(6)
the Latin root rect (straight or right), which also appears in .
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(3), (4)

The Latin root scribere (write, as in script, describe,

inscribe) appears in many combinations. Be able to find more
than 15 derivations of this root. (Those with inflectional suffixes
do not count.)
(5), (8), (9)

Further discussions have been prompted in corresponding

posts or past papers.
(7)

The Latin root vore or vora (eating, feeding on) appears

only in combining forms, which means it does not exist as a word.
The question is aimed at testing the prefix omni- (everywhere,
all). The better stem should be voracious or voracity.
(10)

The stem should be distinct. Be able to tell the difference

between indistinguishable and undistinguished.
(11)

Though delete and deleterious bear a striking resemblance to

each other in spelling, they do not share the same root, nor do
they share any sense of meaning. deleterious by itself exists as
one word, while delete is derived from the Latin root delet
(effaced, blotted out). The question should be rewritten so as
not to cause misunderstandings for students. Be able to find
derivations of delete.
(12)

We accept the answer nauseous seeing that it is close in

meaning to seasick though they do not share much of the same
root. seasick is a combining form of sea and sick, either of whose
roots exists as a word. nauseous is derived from the Latin root
nausea (seasickness), which bears a similarity to seasick in
spelling, but nausea is derived from the Greek root naus (ship,
not sea). In short, seasick and nauseous may share a sense of
meaning, but come from slightly different origins.
(13)

Can well-earned be used in this context? Is the word earnest a

derivation of earn?
(14)

Can self-hardened be used in this context?

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