Appendix:English adjectives with derived terms in -en and -ness
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This is a list of word-triples consisting of an adjective, a verb that's formed from the adjective by appending -en, and a noun that's formed from the adjective by adding -ness. In some cases, there is a more common noun formed with -th or -t, and in three of those cases, the verb is then formed from the noun(-th) + -en.
There are only a few English words (about 44) that conform to this word formation pattern, which any student studying for FCE should know, and is the reason for having this appendix.