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-ile: having the qualities of fragile (easily broken, damaged, or destroyed; frail), servile (pertaining to or befitting a slave; abjectly submissive, slavish) -ish: having the character of childish (characteristic of, pertaining to, or resembling a child), foolish (devoid of good sense or judgment; exhibiting folly, in the manner of a fool) -ive: performing or tending towards (an action); having the nature of cooperative (marked by a willingness to cooperate; done with or working with others for a common purpose), defensive (serving to defend or protect) -ous, -ose: full of, having the quality of, relating to glorious (having or deserving glory, famous), nauseous (causing nausea,sickening) Verb Suffixes -ate: to make, cause to be or become deteriorate (to make worse, impair; to make inferior in quality orcharacter), irritate (to cause annoyance or disturbance in; to make impatient, angry, annoyed) -ify, -fy: to make, form into beautify (to make beautiful), specify (to state explicitly or in detail) -ize: to cause to be or become, to bring about colonize (to establish a colony), democratize (to make or become democratic) Graph Rise sharply fall Increase dramatically decrease Grow considerably drop Go up enormously decline Climb significantly reduce Boom substantially go down Rapidly Generally Gradually Steadily Moderately Slightly Slowly Gently Level off, remain stable, stay constant Peak Plateau fluctuate 1 The table shows percentages of consumer expenditure for three categories of products and services in five countries in 2002. 2 It is clear that the largest proportion of consumer spending in each country went on food, drinks and tobacco. 3 On the other hand, the leisure/education category has the lowest percentages in the table. 4 Out of the five countries, consumer spending on food, drinks and tobacco w