Words you must know

• For their affixes (prefix / suffix)
• For their special meaning in a given context.
• when you are asked to fill in gaps.
• As key words in a reading text.
• For your writing assignment.

Examples

1. A handwriting you cannot read is illegible / unreadable. [PAY ATTENTION TO THE SPELLING]
2. Someone suitable; meeting the conditions; worthy of being chosen is eligible
3. Something you cannot hear is inaudible
4. Something you cannot see is invisible
5. something you cannot believe is incredible / unbelievable.
6. something you don't expect to happen is unpredictable
7. something you cannot accept or admit is inadmissible
8. something hard to apply or implement is inapplicable
9. something you can eat is comestible / edible /eatable
10. something that you can imagine or understand is conceivable / acceptable
11. something you cannot carry out. not feasible, not applicable, not doable is unfeasible / infeasible
12. a disease that cannot be cured or a habit that cannot be changed incurable
13. something that you cannot avoid or evade is ineluctable / inevitable
14. someone or something incapable of error or failure is infallible
15. That you cannot defeat, overcome or subdue (like an army, a boxer, a wrestler) is invincible
16. that whose immunity to attack is high, not feeble or fragile is invulnerable
17. Someone who is just, unprejudiced, showing no favoritism to any side (like the judge) is impartial
18. someone you cannot count, depend or rely on is unreliable # reliable
19. The practice to have many wives is polygamy
20. Property inherited from ancestors is patrimony
21. General pardon is amnesty
22. Loan means credit e.g. low-interest loans / high-interest loans
23. patriarchal (adj) from patriarchy: a social system run or governed by males (father), not females # Matriarchal