CAE Word Formation

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For questions 1-8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line. You can use the "?" button to get a clue but by doing so you will lose points. EXAM DESCRIPTION
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The Cup of Humanity

  
Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the  
eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite (1) ... . AMUSE
The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble it into a religion of aestheticism-  
Teaism. Teaism is a cult founded on the (2) ... of the beautiful among the ADORE
sordid facts of everyday (3) ... .It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery EXIST
of mutual charity, the (4) ... of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the ROMANTIC
(5) ..., as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this PERFECT
impossible thing we know as life. The Philosophy of Tea is not mere  
aestheticism in the ordinary acceptance of the term, for it expresses (6) ... CONJOIN
with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature.  
It is hygiene, for it enforces (7) ... ; it is economics, for it shows comfort in CLEAN
(8) ... rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch SIMPLE
as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe.  
   
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AMUSEMENTS
VERB TO NOUN AMUSE => AMUSEMENT
SUFFIX (-MENT) A suffix of nouns, often concrete, denoting an action or resulting state: REFRESHMENT
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ADORATION
VERB TO NOUN ADORE => ADORATION
SUFFIX (-TION) A suffix occurring in words of Latin origin, used to form abstract nouns from verbs: REVOLUTION
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EXISTENCE
VERB TO NOUN EXIST => EXISTENCE
SUFFIX (-ENCE) A suffix forming nouns indicating an action, state, condition, or quality: PATIENCE
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ROMANTICISM
ADJECTIVE TO NOUN ROMANTIC => ROMANTICISM
SUFFIX (-ISM) A suffix forming nouns indicating a doctrine, system, or body of principles and practices: LENINISM
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IMPERFECT
ADJECTIVE TO NEGATIVE PERFECT => IMPERFECT
PREFIX (-IM) The form used for in - before b, m, or p: IMPOSSIBLE
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CONJOINTLY
VERB TO ADVERB CONJOIN => CONJOINTLY
SUFFIX (-LY) A suffix forming adverbs from adjectives: GLADLY
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CLEANLINESS
ADJECTIVE TO NOUN CLEAN => CLEANLINESS
SUFFIX (-NESS) A native English suffix attached to adjectives and participles, forming abstract nouns denoting quality and state: DARKNESS
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SIMPLICITY
ADJECTIVE TO NOUN SIMPLE => SIMPLICITY
SUFFIX (-ITY) A suffix used to form abstract nouns expressing state or condition: CIVILITY
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