GREGG SHORTHAND DICTIONARY

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GREGG SHORTHAND DICTIONARY
barometer, chronometer, speedometer, thermometer, diameter.
compel, dispel, expel, impel, propel, repel, spell. (The past tense
of all the words ending in pel is formed by raising the end of
the I to show the addition of d. Most of them form a derivative in
pulsion, which is indicated by the addition of tion to the primitive
forin.)
devolve, evolve, involve, revolve. (ef. absolve, dissolve, resolve.)
attain, ascertain, captain, certain, contain,. detain, entertain, fountain,
maintain, mountain, obtain, pertain, sustain.
accentuate, actuate, attenuate, effectuate, extenuate, graduate, insinuate,
perpetuate. (All these words form derivatives in tion.)
abject, deject, eject, inject, project, reject.
-tern, cistern, eastern, lantern, modern, nocturne, pattern, subaltern,
-dern western.
-gent, contingent, diligent, divergent, emergent, exigent, indigent, indul-
-gence gent, intelligent, negligent. (All these words form a derivative in
gence, and some in gency.)
-port comport, deport, disport, export, import, passport, purport, sport.
-verse, diverse, diversity, diversion, diverge; converse, conversion, con-
-versity, verge; perverse, perversity, perversion; adverse, adversity; inverse,
-version,inversion; reverse, reversion; subversion; obverse; university. (Uni-
-verge "z'erse is written under the abbreviating principle.)
-titude altitude, aptitude, certitude, fortitude, latitude, platitude. (Except
-riC
-vity
-ntic
-ngle
-ular
-anous
-uous
gratitude.)
bishopric, cambric, choleric, fabric, gastric, lyric, metric, theatric.
brevity, levity, nativity, passivity, -captivity, activity, -gravity, .productivity.
romantic, pedantic, Atlantic, authentic.
angle, bangle, bungle, entangle, disentangle, mingle, mangle, surcingle,
tangle, tingle, wrangle. (The I is omitted from the word
single as the word occurs so frequently. The I is also omitted
from such derivatives of angle as rectangle, triangle, quadrangle,.)
angular, cellular, jugular, muscular, nebular, ocular, oracular, secular,
tabular, titular, tubular, vehicular. (We may take advantage of
the abbreviating principle, however, in binocular, molecular, spectacular,
vernacular; singular, rectangulm:, triangular.)
gregarious, multifarious, nefarious, precarious, vicarious.
arduous, assiduous, contemptuous, continuous, deciduous, fatuous,