68. IWP session 16
sess-, sitting
A session of the court is that period when the judge is sitting on the bench
ob-
upon or over
Obsession
something that sits upon or over you
obsess
obsessive
-ous
adj suffix
Ad- is respelled as before in front of root starting with s-
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assiduous
tekun
people who are assiduous constantly sit at a job, task, hobby,
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one way to derive noun forms of adjs ending in -ous is to add the suffix -ness
creduoous, creduoousness
assiduous
assiduousness
you can derive the noun forms of some adjs ending in -ous in an additional way, drop the adj suffix -ous replace it with the noun suffix -ity.
e.g. fatuous, fatuity
He is an assiduous worker
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He as an obsession that his hands are dirty - so he washes them every fie minutes.
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I hear a dissident voice telling us we are all wrong.
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Does a feeling of inferiority obsess you?
maybe you are inferior
An abnormal, intense, and disturbing preoccupation, as if sth were constantly sitting on one's mind.
obsession
obsess
obsessive
Disagreement with the majority N.
dissidence
The person so disagreeing N.
dissident
Craftly senaking up with evil intents and then springin a trap adj.
Insiduous
decem, deka
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sectus
to cut
The -ad of ad usually changes to the initial letter of the root to which it is attached.
ad-, an-, annihilate