Common Suffixes: Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ment

This vocabulary list features words with the common suffix that turns verbs into nouns.
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  1. amusement
    an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention
  2. appointment
    a meeting arranged in advance
  3. argument
    a dispute where there is strong disagreement
  4. arrangement
    an orderly grouping considered as a unit
  5. assignment
    an undertaking that you have been told to perform
  6. assortment
    the act of distributing things into classes of the same type
  7. atonement
    the act of making amends for sin or wrongdoing
  8. bewilderment
    confusion resulting from failure to understand
  9. chastisement
    a rebuke for making a mistake
  10. commitment
    the act of binding yourself to a course of action
  11. compartment
    a partitioned section within a larger enclosed area
  12. consignment
    the delivery of goods for sale or disposal
  13. disagreement
    a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
  14. disillusionment
    freeing from false belief
  15. embarrassment
    the shame felt when inadequacy or guilt is made public
  16. enforcement
    ensuring observance of or obedience to
  17. enlightenment
    education that results in the spread of knowledge
  18. equipment
    an instrumentality needed for an undertaking
  19. establishment
    the act of forming something
  20. fragment
    a piece broken off or cut off of something else
  21. harassment
    the act of tormenting by persistent attacks and criticism
  22. indictment
    an accusation of wrongdoing
  23. investment
    laying out money or capital in an enterprise
  24. involvement
    the act of sharing in the activities of a group
  25. judgment
    the act of assessing a person or situation or event
  26. measurement
    assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
  27. monument
    a structure erected to commemorate persons or events
  28. postponement
    the act of delaying something until a future time
  29. procurement
    the act of getting possession of something
  30. recruitment
    enlisting people for the army (or for a job or a cause etc.)
  31. refinement
    the result of improving something
  32. settlement
    the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies
  33. statement
    the act of affirming or asserting something
Created on Fri May 03 12:10:34 EDT 2024 (updated Fri Jul 26 16:30:24 EDT 2024)

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