All words formed
from plain English words add _able_. Those familiar with Latin will have
little difficulty in recognizing the _i_ as an essential part of the root.
Words ending in ent and ant, and ence and ance.
Another class of words concerning which we must also feel doubt is that
terminating in _ence_ and _ance,_ or _ant_ and _ent_. All these words
are from the Latin, and the difference in termination is usually due to
whether they come from verbs of the first conjugation or of other
conjugations. As there is no means of distinguishing, we must
continually refer to the dictionary till we have learned each one.
We present a brief list:
ent
confident
belligerent
independent
transcendent
competent
insistent
consistent
convalescent
correspondent
corpulent
dependent
despondent
expedient
impertinent
inclement
insolvent
intermittent
prevalent
superintendent
recipient
proficient
efficient
eminent
excellent
fraudulent
latent
opulent
convenient
corpulent
descendent
different=
ant
abundant
accountant
arrogant
assailant
assistant
attendant
clairvoyant
combatant
recreant
consonant
conversant
defendant
descendent
discordant
elegant
exorbitant
important
incessant
irrelevant
luxuriant
malignant
petulant
pleasant
poignant
reluctant
stagnant
triumphant
vagrant
warrant
attendant
repentant
A few of these words may have either termination according to the
meaning, as _confident_ (adj.
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