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Translation

augmentative: a huge or intense version

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They built an enormous bridge over the river.

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The coffee is scalding, wait a little.

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Your idea is excellent!

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The gate of the castle was shut.

is .

He roared with laughter all evening.

-- is the opposite number of --: it blows the root up. gives , gives , gives , gives . As with --, the ending of the root survives, so an adjective stays an adjective and becomes i, to roar with laughter.

Watch the intensity, not just the size. On a quality root -- means extremely rather than physically large, which is why is excellent and is boiling. And read new words with care before you assume the suffix is there: , and are single roots, and is a gate, not merely a big door you could still call .

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