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The endings –able, –ion, –er, –or, –ance, –ence, –ous, –ish, and –al are generally used to form adjectives and nouns. Read these guidelines to learn how they affect the spelling of the word to which they’re added, then test yourself with the training quizzes.

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Old English gān, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch gaan and German gehen; the form went was originally the past tense of wend.

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Early 17th century (in the senses ‘harmonize discrepancies’ and ‘assess loss or damages’): from obsolete French adjuster, from Old French ajoster ‘to approximate’, based on Latin ad– ‘to’ + juxta ‘near’.

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