Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd edition 1522 Word families: building possibilities... Words often come in families. You can expand your vocabulary by becoming familiar with these word families and this can also enable you to become a more...
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Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd edition 1522 Word families: building possibilities... Words often come in families. You can expand your vocabulary by becoming familiar with these word families and this can also enable you to become a more fluent speaker and writer of English. If you know all the possible words within a word family, you can express yourself in a wider range of ways. For example, if you know the verb and the noun forms related to the adjective boring, you can say: • The lesson was boring. • The lesson bored me. • That lesson was such a bore. An extra reason for paying attention to word families is that for some exams you have to know them. In the list below, the words printed in bold are words which are very common and important to learn. The other words in the same row are words in the same family, often formed with prefixes and suffixes. Sometimes they are just a different part of speech (e.g. anger, which is a noun and a verb). All the words in this list
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