Difficult words in the word formation exercise

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Recognise → Recognisable/Recognizable
Likely → Likelihood
History → Historians (not historicians)
Fruit → Fruitful (not fructiferous)
Rely → Reliance (not reliation)
Notoriety → Notoriously (not notably)
Certain → Ascertain (meaning to determine)
Rigour → Rigorous (not rigourous)
Rain → Rainfall
Appreciate → Appreciably (not appeciately)
Go → Undergo
Ambiguous → Ambiguity (not ambiguousity)
Notice → Noticeable (not noticiable)
Maintain → Maintenance (not maintainance)
High → Height
Anxious → Anxiety
See → Insight
Lonely → Loneliness
Repeat → Repeatedly (different from repetitively)
Just → Justice
Break → Breakthrough
Press → Pressure (not pression)
Retail → Retailers
Exceed → Excessive (not exceedful)
Efficient → Efficientcy (noun) / Efficiently (adverb)
Bring → Upbringing
Ordinary → Extraordinarily (adverb intensifier) / Extraordinary (adjective)
Depress → Depressive (involves indirect cause like enviroment or situation) / Depressing (more direct)
Base → Basically
Assert → Assertion (not assertment)

Negatives:
Perfection → Imperfection
Logical → Ilogical
Frequent → Infrequent (not Unfrequent)
Conclusive → Inconclusive (not unconclusive)
Variable → Invariable (not unvariable)
Question → Unquestionably (not inquestionably)
Access → Inaccessible (not unaccessible)
Appear → Disappear
Close → Disclose (opposite from enclose)

-EN addition: increasing the quality
Widen: make it more wide
Shorten: make it short
Strenghthen: make it more strong
Heighten: make it more height or intensify


If you are interested in a more detailed explanation on how to transform words check this post.

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