What does commendable mean?
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What does commendable mean?
Suffixes and Word Meanings
Some words have suffixes, which are word parts added to the end of the word that may change its meaning or its part of speech. For example, the word 'helpless' has the suffix '-less', which means 'without'.
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View this answerThe word 'commendable' is made up of the base word, 'commend', and the suffix, '-able'. 'Commend' is a verb that means 'to praise'. The suffix '-able'...
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Chapter 4 / Lesson 17Learn the suffix definition and understand how a suffix changes the meaning of a word. Study suffix examples with -tion, -ic, -ate, -ly, and -ous suffix meanings.
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