Adjectives in -ic or -ical | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | #7 | #8 |

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economic or economical
(1) At least women have gained freedom!
(2) It would not be to do that.
(3) The quality of growth is being queried even by the Financial Times.

mystic or mystical
(4) It was a experience.
(5) The final stage consists in union with the One.
(6) For many years thousands of believers in the arts have consulted with this modern day wizard.

electric or electrical
(7) He worked for a firm of engineers.
(8) Your first one died in the Texas chair.
(9) He was exposed to an shock.

comic or comical
(10) They stayed in their room reading books.
(11) The silence was almost .
(12) He had written some verses.

theoretic or theoretical
(13) The knowledge they acquire is fantastic.
(14) This is definitely a problem.
(15) It seems to provide a possible framework for explaining everything.


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