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Academic Vocabulary

Learning English Vocabulary

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Using Suffixes in Academic English

Academic English words often have prefixes and suffixes. For example, depopulation means a reduction in the number of people somewhere. And deforestation means clearing of trees from an area. Another strategy for working out the meaning is to look at how a word is constructed.

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