Lista de palabras Word Formation | B2 Cambridge English (Use of English)
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¿Estás preparando el examen B2 First de Cambridge y necesitas mejorar el Word Formation del Use of English? En esta guía encontrarás una lista completa y revisada de palabras esenciales para aprobar esta parte del examen con más seguridad.
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¿Qué es el Word Formation en el B2 First?
En el Use of English del examen B2 First de Cambridge English, el ejercicio de Word Formation evalúa tu capacidad para transformar palabras utilizando prefijos, sufijos y cambios gramaticales.
Por ejemplo:
Accept → acceptable → acceptably
Care → careful → carefully
Success → successful → successfully
Para conseguir una buena nota, necesitas reconocer rápidamente qué tipo de palabra falta en cada frase y cómo formarla correctamente.
Cómo estudiar Word Formation para Cambridge
Estas son las mejores estrategias para mejorar rápidamente:
Estudia palabras por familias léxicas.
Aprende prefijos y sufijos frecuentes.
Practica noun, adjective, verb y adverb juntos.
Haz ejercicios reales de Cambridge Use of English.
Revisa las palabras más comunes del FCE regularmente.
Lista completa de Word Formation para B2 First
Noun | Verb | Adjective | Adverb |
inability, disability | disable, enable | able, disabled | ably |
acceptance, acceptability | accept | acceptable | acceptably |
accident | accidental | accidentally | |
achievement | achieve | achievable | achievably |
actor, actress | act | active, acting | actively |
action, act, activity, acting, activation | activate, act | active | actively |
admirer, admiration | admire | admiring, admirable | admiringly, admirably |
admission, admittance | admit | admissible | admissibly |
adventurer, adventure | adventure | adventurous | adventurously |
adviser, advice, advisability | advise | advisable, advisory | advisably, inadvisably |
alarm | alarm | alarming, alarmed | alarmingly |
analyst, analysis | analyse | analytic, analytical | analytically |
anxiety | anxiously | anxious | anxiously |
applicant, applicator, application | apply | applicable, applied | applicably |
artist, art, artistry | artistic | artistically | |
assumption | assume | assumed, assumable | assumably |
attendant, attendance, inattention | attend | attendant, inattentive | inattentively |
beginner, beginning | begin | beginning | beginningly |
behaviourist, behaviour, behaviourism | behave | behavioural | behaviorally |
benefit, benefactor, beneficiary | benefit | beneficial | beneficially |
breath, breathing | breathe | breathless, breathtaking, (un)breathable, breathy | breathlessly |
calculator, calculation | calculate | calculating, calculable | calculably |
celebrity, celebration | celebrate | celebrated | celebratedly |
centre | centralise, centre | central | centrally |
character, characteristic, characterisation | characterise | characteristic, characterless | characteristically |
child, childhood, childbirth | childless, childish, childlike | childishly | |
choice | choose | choosy/choosey | choosily |
classification | classify | classified, classifiable | classifiably |
collection, collector | collect | collected, collective | collectively |
comfort | comfort | comfortable, comfortless, comforting | comfortably |
commitment, committal, communication | communicate | communicable, communicative | communicatively |
competition, competitor | compete | competitive | competitively |
complaint | complain | complaining | complainingly |
completeness, completion | complete | complete | completely |
confidence, confidentiality, confidant(e) | confide | confiding | confidingly |
consciousness | conscious | consciously | |
conservation | conserve | conservative | conservatively |
(in)consideration | consider | considerable, considerate | considerably, considerately |
construction, constructor | construct | constructive | constructively |
(in)correctness, correction | correct | correct, corrective | correctly, correctively |
correspondence, correspondent | correspond | corresponding | correspondingly |
creation, creativeness, creativity, creator, creature | create | creative | creatively |
cure | cure | curable, curative | curatively |
curiosity | curious | curiously | |
danger | endanger | dangerous, endangered | dangerously |
day, daylight, daily | daily | daily | |
decision, (in)decisiveness | decide | decided, decisive | decisively |
demonstration, demonstrator | demonstrate | demonstrative | demonstratively |
depression | depress | depressed, depressing, depressive | depressingly |
depth, deepness | deepen | deep | deeply |
description | describe | describable, descriptive | descriptively |
despair, desperation | despair | despairing, desperate | desperately |
destruction, destroyer, destructiveness | destroy | destructible, destructive | destructively |
determination | determine | determined | determinedly |
discovery, discoverer | discover | discoverable | discoverably |
drama, dramatist | dramatise | dramatic | dramatically |
ease | ease | easy | easily |
economy, economics, economist | economise | economic, economical | economically |
education, educator | educate | educated, educational | educationally |
election, elector | elect | elective, electoral | electorally |
electricity, electrocution, electrician | electrify, electrocute | electric, electrical | electrically |
(un)employment, employer, employee | employ | employed, employable | employably |
encouragement | encourage | encouraging | encouragingly |
end, ending | end | endless | endlessly |
energy | energise | energetic | energetically |
enjoyment | enjoy | enjoyable | enjoyably |
enthusiasm, enthusiast | enthuse | enthusiastic | enthusiastically |
envy | envy | envious, envied, enviable | enviously |
escape, escapism, escapee, escapist | escape | escapist | escapistically |
exactness, exactitude | exact | exact, exacting | exactly |
exam, examination, examiner, examinee | examine | examinable | examinably |
excitement | excite | exciting, excited, excitable | excitingly |
exhaustion, exhaust | exhaust | exhausted, exhausting, exhaustive | exhaustively |
existence | exist | existent, existing | existentially |
expectation, expectancy | expect | expected, expectant | expectantly |
expense(s), expenditure | expend | expendable | expensively |
explanation | explain | explanatory | explanatorily |
fame | famed, famous, infamous | famously | |
fascination | fascinate | fascinating | fascinatingly |
fashion | fashion | fashionable, unfashionable | fashionably |
finance, financier | finance | financial | financially |
fluency | fluent | fluently | |
fortune, misfortune | fortunate, unfortunate | fortunately, unfortunately | |
(in)frequency | frequent | frequent | frequently |
generalisation, generality | generalise | general, generalised | generally |
globe, globalisation | globalise | global | globally |
government, governor, governance | govern | governing, governmental | governmentally |
guide, guidance | guide | guided, guiding | guidingly |
happiness | happy, unhappy | happily, unhappily | |
health, healthiness | healthy, unhealthy | healthily, unhealthily | |
honesty | honest, dishonest | honestly, dishonestly | |
host, hostess, hospitality | host | hospitable | hospitably |
human, humanist, (in)humanity, humanism | humanise | human, humane, humanitarian | humanely |
idiom | idiomatic | idiomatically | |
ill, illness | ill | ill | ill |
image, imagination, imagery | imagine | imaginary, imaginable, imaginative | imaginably, imaginatively |
importance | important, unimportant | importantly, unimportantly | |
impression | impress | impressive, impressionable | impressively, impressionably |
intelligence | intelligent | intelligently | |
inspiration | inspire | inspirational, inspired, inspiring | inspirationally |
insurance, insurer | insure, ensure | insured, ensured | assuredly |
interest | interest | interested, interesting | interestingly |
interpreter, interpretation | interpret | interpretative | interpretatively |
introduction | introduce | introductory | introductively |
intruder, intrusion | intrude | intrusive | intrusively |
investigator, investigation | investigate | investigative, investigatory | investigatively |
invitation | invite | inviting, invited | invitingly |
isolation | isolate | isolated, isolating | isolatingly |
jewel, jeweller, jewellery | jewelled | jewelledly | |
learner, learning | learn | learned | learnedly |
likelihood, likeness | like, liken | likely, unlikely, alike | likely |
loudness | loud | loudly | |
luxuriance, luxury | luxuriate | luxurious, luxuriant | luxuriously, luxuriantly |
madness | madden | mad | madly |
majority | major | majorly | |
medicine, medication | medicate | medical, medicated, medicinal | medically, medicinally |
mover, movement, motion | move | moving, movable, motionless | movingly, movably, motionlessly |
mortality, immortality | immortalise | mortal, immortal | mortally, immortally |
musician, music, musical | musical | musically | |
mystification, mystery, mysteriousness | mystify | mysterious | mysteriously |
nature | naturalise | natural | naturally |
necessaries, necessity | necessitate | necessary, unnecessary | necessarily, unnecessarily |
nerve, nervousness | nerve | nervous, nerveless | nervously |
norm, normal, normality, normalisation | normalise | normal, abnormal | normally, abnormally |
operator, operation | operate | operable, operational, operative | operationally |
opportunist, opportunity, opportunism | opportune | opportunely | |
option | opt | optional | optionally |
organisation, organiser | organise | organised, disorganised | organisationally |
patience, impatience | patient, impatient | patiently, impatiently | |
peace, peacefulness | peaceful, peaceable | peacefully | |
percent, percentage | percental | percentually | |
perfectionist, perfection, perfectionism | perfect | perfect, perfectible | perfectly |
performer, performance | perform | performative, performing | performatively |
personality, person, personification | personalise | personal | personally |
pessimist, pessimism | pessimistic | pessimistically | |
pleasure, pleasantness | please | pleasant, pleasurable, pleased, pleasing | pleasantly, pleasurably |
politician, policy, politics | politicise | political | politically |
pollutant, pollution | pollute | polluted, polluting | pollutingly |
population, popularity | populate | popular, unpopular | popularly, unpopularly |
possibility, probability | probable, improbable | probably, improbably | |
power | empower, power | powerful, powered, powerless | powerfully |
practitioner, practicality, practice | practise | practical, impractical, practicable | practically, impractically |
prevention | prevent | preventable, preventive | preventively |
privacy, privatisation | privatise | private | privately |
product, produce, producer, production, productivity | produce | productive | productively |
professional, profession | profess | professional | professionally |
promoter, promotion | promote | promotional | promotionally |
proposal, proposition | propose | proposed, propositional | propositionally |
protector, protection | protect | protected, unprotected, protective | protectively |
psychologist, psychology, psyche, psychosis | psych(e) | psychological, psychic, psychotic | psychologically |
public, publicity | publicise | public | publicly |
pursuer, pursuit | pursue | pursuable | pursuably |
qualification | qualify, disqualify | qualified, unqualified, disqualified | qualifiedly |
realist, reality, realism, realisation | realise | real, realistic, unrealistic | realistically |
recognition | recognise | recognisable, unrecognisable | recognisably |
reference | refer | referable | referably |
reject, rejection | reject | rejecting | rejectingly |
relation, relative, relationship, relativity | relate | related, relative | relatively |
relaxation | relax | relaxing, relaxed | relaxingly |
reliability, reliance | rely | reliable, unreliable, reliant | reliably |
repeater, repetition, repeat | repeat | repeatable, repetitive | repeatably, repetitively |
replacement | replace | replaceable, irreplaceable | replaceably, irreplaceably |
requirement | require | required, requisite | necessarily |
response, responsiveness, responsibility | respond | responsive, responsible, irresponsible | responsibly, irresponsibly |
restriction, restrictiveness | restrict | restricted, unrestricted, restrictive | restrictively |
safe, saver, saviour, savings, safety | save | safe, unsafe | safely, unsafely |
satisfaction, dissatisfaction | satisfy | satisfied, satisfactory, satisfying | satisfactorily |
scenery, scene | scenic | scenically | |
scientist, science | scientific | scientifically | |
sense, sensor, sensation, sensitivity, sensibility | sense | sensible, sensitive, sensory, sensational, senseless | sensibly, sensitively, sensationally, senselessly |
skill | skilled, skillful | skillfully | |
spectacle(s), spectator | spectate | spectacular, unspectacular | spectacularly |
starvation | starve | starving, starved | starvingly |
stress | stress | stressful | stressfully |
success | succeed | successful, unsuccessful | successfully, unsuccessfully |
suit | suit | suitable, unsuitable, suited | suitably, unsuitably |
suggestion | suggest | suggestive, suggestible | suggestively |
summary | summarise | summary | summarily |
surprise | surprise | surprising, surprised | surprisingly, unsurprisingly |
surroundings | surround | surrounding, surrounded | surroundingly |
sympathiser, sympathy | sympathise | sympathetic, unsympathetic | sympathetically, unsympathetically |
temper, temptation | tempt | tempting, tempted | temptingly |
tendency | tend | tending | tendentially |
threat | threaten | threatening, unthreatening | threateningly |
trainer, trainee, training | train | trained, untrained, training | trainedly |
trend | trend | trendy | trendily |
type | typical, untypical | typically, untypically | |
understanding | understand | understanding, understandable | understandably |
valuer, value, valuation | value | valuable, valueless, invaluable | valuably, invaluable |
variety, variation, variability | vary | various, varied, variable, invariable | variously, invariably |
warmer, warmth, warm | warm | warm | warmly |
western, west | westernise | westernised, western, westerly, westward | westwardly |
watch, watcher | watch | watchful | watchfully |
worker, work | work | workable, working | workably |
Descarga el pdf con con la lista de palabras Word Formation B2 aquí:
Consejo para sacar mejor nota en Use of English
Uno de los secretos para obtener una buena puntuación en Cambridge B2 es identificar rápidamente si necesitas un:
sustantivo,
verbo,
adjetivo,
o adverbio.
Cuanto más practiques las familias de palabras, más fácil será completar los ejercicios del examen en menos tiempo y con mayor precisión.
Ejercicios prácticos: pdf descargable
A continuación podrás descargar 35 ejercicios prácticos diseñados para ayudarte a reconocer y transformar palabras en sustantivos, verbos, adjetivos y adverbios.
Cómo hacer los ejercicios
Lee cada frase cuidadosamente y completa el espacio utilizando la forma correcta de la palabra que aparece entre paréntesis en mayúsculas.
Ejemplo:
She answered the question very . (CONFIDENCE)
✅ confidently
Practica regularmente y revisa tus errores para dominar una de las partes más importantes del B2 First Cambridge Use of English.





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