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Exercise 12 Questions
As a brief review, please match each of the definitions on the right with a suffix on the left.
Answer:
- -ion — c. the act of or the condition resulting from the action.
- -ectomy — b. excision or removal
- -itate — e. to stimulate repetitively
- -ist — d. the agent which performs the act
- -otomy — a. incision into
