Power Suffixes for Tenth Grade Students: -ment

Learn these words formed with the suffix -ment, meaning "action, result."
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  1. astonishment
    the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising
  2. achievement
    the action of accomplishing something
  3. amazement
    the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising
  4. encouragement
    the act of giving hope or support to someone
  5. adjustment
    the act of making something different
  6. measurement
    assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
  7. replacement
    the act of substituting one person or thing for another
  8. disagreement
    a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
  9. wonderment
    the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising
  10. containment
    the act of keeping something from spreading
Created on Fri Jun 06 12:58:45 EDT 2025 (updated Fri Jun 06 18:24:34 EDT 2025)

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