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Is there regularity of meaning in the derivational affixes used in the following sets of words? Can you think of the others which do or do not have consistent meanings?
-Shorten, blacken, golden, deepen, soften, wooden
-Laughable, readable, breakable, reasonable, perishable, enjoyable
-Rewrite, rebuild, refine, remiss, relax, refuse

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Answered by kvnmurty
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1.  Shorten, blacken, deepen, soften  are used as verbs.
   golden and wooden are adjectives.

2. rewrite, rebuild   means to repeat or redo something.
    refine, relax, refuse are verbs, but activities not repeated..
    remiss is an adjective.

3. laughable, readable, breakable, reasonable, perishable, enjoyable
      There is a regularity of meaning in these derivational affixes.

    A joke is laughable. A book/story is readable.  A glass is breakable.
         He is reasonable.  The thing is perishable.  Picnic is enjoyable.


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