Words ending in 'itude' are usually abstract nouns.
Abstract nouns convey ideas and feelings, rather than concrete objects.
Abstract nouns, do not, in general, have plurals.
Abstract nouns, when used with a concrete meaning or when referring to different types, may have plurals.
E.g.: Attitude is important. singular
Attitudes differ. plural.
The following mini test contains 67 sentences using the suffixes 'itude' and 'itudes'. Just fill-in the blanks.
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1: Acerbity and ___itude both refer to sourness of taste.
2: A salesman should have an ____itude to talk to people and travel extensively.
3: Animals too have ____itude, though they may not know what gratitude means.
4: Arctrus is a star of first ____itude.
5: Are the consumers to adjust their ____tudes towards spending to satisfy the sellers? .
6: Astrolabes were used to measure ____itudes at sea. Attitudes are dispositions and postures.
7: Can we exactly measure the ____itude of the Sun? .
8: Can we get ___itude in churches and mosques? .
9: Can we measure the ___itude of coagulated blood? .
10: Congress discussions have ___itude.
11: Crimes involving moral ___itude should be unbailable.
12: Did Hamlet suffer from indecision or ____itude and vexation? .
13: Did Milton ever forsake the path of ____itude? .
14: Do anxietude and solicitude convey the same meaning? .
15: Do rural ____itudes differ from urban attitudes? .
16: Do expensive surgeries change ___itudes and waistlines? .
17: Does a person living in high ___itudes lose weight? .
18: Fatigue, ____itude, hard-work and irritation are some human characteristics.
19: Genetic resemblances and ____itudes are common among cousins.
20: Kings expect exhibition of honesty, loyalty and ____itudes from their courtiers.
21: Many landlocked countries, yet remain, in a state of ____itude.
22: YOu say that no Governor of Virginia had suffered from ____itude and irresolution. Really? .
23: A powerful 8.8 ___itude earthquake shook Chile in 2010 ; Fatalities were few.
24: Presidential pronouncements should not be devoid of ___itude and sincerity.
25: We cannot measure the ___itude of the cosmos.
26: The ___itude of the stories in Old Testament, are yet to be checked.
27: True lovers are equanimous both to sweet ___itudes and sour attitudes.
28: U.N. Chief had praised the courage and ___itude of the Chileans. Did he really intend it, or just a pep talk? .
29: We cannot see grass at very high ___itudes.
30: What is the ___itude and ___itude of the Greenwich? .
31: What is the ___itude of financial waste in the healthcare industry? .
32: Which Illinois politician does not indulge in ___itudes? .
33: Nor should he make ___itude his only study .
34: A Church may still exist in undiminished vigor, when some traveler from NewZealand shall, in the midst of a vast ___itude, take his stand on a broken arch of London bridge, to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's- Macaulay .
35: There is wisdom in the saying of Feltham, that the whole creation is kept in order by discord,and that ___itude maintains the world .
36: No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the ___itude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true- Hawthorne .
37: so exemplary writers depend not upon the ___itude of the world- Davenant .
38: They make the ___itudes and ___itudes- Thoreau .
39: Pity and ___itude are its attendants- Corneille .
40: The king- becoming graces- devotion, patience, courage, ___itude- Shakespeare .
41: Thus love is the most easy and agreeable, and ___itude the most humiliating, affection of the mind: we never reflect on the man we love without exulting in our choice, while he who has bound us to him by benefits alone rises to our ideas as a person to whom we have in some measure forfeited our freedom- Goldsmith .
42: It is sad work to be at that pass, that the best trial of truth must be the ____itudes of believers, in a crowd where the number of fools so much exceeds that of the wise .
43: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a ___itude of discoveries thence arising.
44: The seeds of knowledge maybe planted in ___itude,
45: With so many thousand joys, is it not black ___itude to call the world a place of sorrow and torment? .- Richter .
46: The man's courage is loved by the woman, whose ___itude again is coveted by the man .
47: No navigator has yet traced lines of ___itude and ___itude on the conjugal sea- Balzac .
48: it will be the reign of the human mind in all its ____itude.
49: The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of ___itude- Rousseau .
50: And people are always missing that part of the life melody,always talking of perseverance, and courage, and ___itude.
51: Patience is the finest and worthiest part of ___itude, and the rarest, too- Ruskin .
52: Patience- is the truest ___itude- Milton .
53: Promises hold men faster than benefits: hope is a cable and ___itude a thread- .
54: That ___itude which has encountered no dangers, that prudence which has surmounted no difficulties, that integrity which has been attacked by no temptation, can at best be considered.
55: One ought to love society if he wishes to enjoy ___itude .
56: It is a social nature that ___itude works upon with the most various power .
57: If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away from hateful things, ____itude is a silent emptiness to him- .
58: To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing ___itude- Addison .
59: Our immortal souls, while righteous, are by God himself beautified with the title of his own image and ___itude. Sir Walter Raleigh .
60: Charity covers a multitude of sins .
61: Faith flourishes in ___itude .
62: Weakness of ___itude becomes weakness of character .
63: Law is the standard of ___itude .
64: To none shall we sell, to none shall we deny, or put off justice, or ___itude .
65: He who assists the wicked and inactive, fosters a ___itude of bad people, and is the disgrace of the laws .
66: In the ____itude of council there is safety .
67: Legal ___itude is the similar relation of cases, so different between themselves, what is valid in one of the similar cases, will be valid in the other .
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