Power Suffixes for Eleventh Grade Students: -ship

Learn these words formed with the suffix -ship, meaning "state or condition of, skill of."
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  1. kinship
    relatedness or connection by blood or marriage or adoption
  2. conservatorship
    the legal role of managing the affairs of someone less able
  3. mentorship
    guidance provided by a person experienced in some field
  4. partisanship
    an inclination to favor one group or view over alternatives
  5. stewardship
    the position of someone who manages the affairs of others
  6. craftsmanship
    skill in an occupation, trade, or manual art
  7. internship
    the position of working for an expert to learn a profession
  8. sportsmanship
    fairness and courtesy in following the rules of a game
  9. connoisseurship
    love of or expert taste for something, especially fine art
  10. brinkmanship
    act of pushing a dangerous situation to the edge of disaster
Created on Fri Jun 06 12:53:42 EDT 2025 (updated Fri Jun 06 18:43:42 EDT 2025)

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