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- pronunciation:
- fIk
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- features:
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noun |
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Fiction is writing that tells a story from a writer's imagination.
Elena likes reading biographies, but I enjoy reading fiction.- similar words:
- fantasy, invention, literature, myth, novel, story, tale
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fancy, lie, make-believe, yarn |
The word fiction
contains the following part:
fac, fic, fec, fact, fect
Latin
root
that means make, do
  More about this word part:
This root is also the origin of the suffixes "-fy, -ify, -efy" and "-ification, -efaction".
Example words:
affect, affection, artificial, beneficial, benefit, deficient, effect, efficient, fact, factory, fiction, infect, manufacture, sacrifice, satisfaction, satisfactory, significant, sufficient
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