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Hello and welcome to six minute vocabulary. I'm Catherine. And I'm Neil.

Today we're looking at the suffixes less and free.

Suffixes are two or three letters at the end of a word that affect its meaning.

We'll look at what the suffixes free and less mean and give you some examples.

There'll be a quiz.

And we'll leave you with a top tip for learning vocabulary.

Let's start by listening to Marcus.

He's a politician and he's talking about his party's policies.

Right. So while you listen, think about this question.

Do e-cigarettes produce smoke? Here's Marcus.

We're focusing on the jobless, the homeless, the sick and the elderly, people who are

powerless to change things for themselves. We're campaigning for more car-free and smoke-free zones. We're going to extend

the smoking ban to include e-cigarettes, which may be smokeless, but they aren't harmless. And we're

going to raise the penalties for careless drivers. So we asked you, do e-cigarettes produce smoke?

And the answer is, no, they don't.

E-cigarettes are smokeless.

And smokeless is a keyword in this program

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