... compared A couple of obvious examples of antonym pairs are happy and sad, good and bad, and love and hate 13 – VOCABULARY TERMS AND LANGUAGE ORIGINS – She was exempt from duty that day She was excused ... verb meaning to sanitize As an adjective, it takes the suffix, -ile and 12 – VOCABULARY TERMS AND LANGUAGE ORIGINS – Denotation and Connotation Rules for Dividing Words into Syllables Here are a ... – VOCABULARY TERMS AND LANGUAGE ORIGINS – becomes sterile As a noun, it takes the suffix -tion and becomes sterilization The suffix changes the word’s job in a sentence, and it also helps...