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- pronunciation:
- flu
 n
si
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition: |
the ability to speak or write smoothly and easily in another language.
The students achieved fluency in German by spending a year in Berlin. |
adjective + (n.)fluency
absolute, advanced, associational, compositional, increased, mean, median, melodic, musical, native, one-to-one, oral, perceived, phonemic, rhyming, verbal
verb + (n.)fluency
achieve, acquire, affect, assess, develop, enhance, improve, increase, maze, perceive, promote, read, score
(n.)fluency
+ verb
account, administer, combine, decline, demonstrate, evaluate, examine, measure, mediate, monitor, predict, probe, range, recommend, workout
noun + (n.)fluency
accuracy,
acquisition,
awareness,
calculation,
change,
comparison,
computation,
correspondence,
counting,
criterion,
dimension,
disability,
ease,
effect,
format,
gain,
generalization,
growth,
handwriting,
identification,
improvement,
increase,
lack,
level,
link,
math,
maze,
measure,
measurement,
mechanic,
naming,
nonsense,
perception,
phoneme,
phonics,
procedure,
quantity,
reading,
recognition,
sample,
segmentation,
sentence,
skill,
task,
teaching,
thinking,
topic,
variable,
word
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The word fluency
contains the following part:
-ance, -ence, -ency, -ancy
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, or act of
  More about this word part:
The suffix group -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
attaches to verbs and Latin verb stems to create nouns. The suffix -ance
is usually attached to whole English words, whereas -ence
is usually attached to roots: compare eloquence
and acceptance
. For most nouns ending in -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
, there is a correponsponding adjective form ending in -ant, -ent.
Example words:
absence, acceptance, accountancy, admittance, agency, ambiance, ambience, appetency, arrogance, ascendancy, attendance, audience, belligerency, benevolence, brilliancy, buoyancy, cadence, clemency, complacency, conference, confidence, consequence, conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, contingency, counterinsurgency, countertendency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, difference, disappearance, discrepancy, disturbance, efficiency, eloquence, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, importance, incoherency, inconsistency, incumbency, indecency, independence, independency, inefficiency, infancy, insufficiency, insurgency, interagency, interdependency, itinerancy, latency, leniency, malfeasance, malignancy, mendicancy, nonbelligerency, nonemergency, occupancy, occurrence, patency, permanency, piquancy, poignancy, potency, preference, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, pungency, redundancy, regency, remembrance, residence, residency, science, solvency, stringency, subagency, sufficiency, superefficiency, superintendency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy
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