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Today’s Word: reliability

Today’s Word: reliability

June 1, 2018     =========

☆  reliability  信頼できること

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We haven’t talked about suffixes for a while! So, today’s word is the adjective reliable plus the suffix “ity” which creates the noun, reliability. My son is currently learning about suffixes and prefixes at school and at first, I was a little worried about the reliability of the materials he is using for study!

He is very proud of himself, knowing how new words can be formed by adding a suffix or prefix to it. However, when he was telling me about the words, one example he gave was the word “ball” as a suffix, which can change into words like “volleyball” and “basketball.” Hmmm, forRead more about Today’s Word: reliability[…]