(A) Stress the suffix itself:
- ee
employee refugee trainee referee
- eer
engineer career volunteer
- ese
Chinese Japanese Portuguese
- ique
unique antique technique
(B) Stress the syllable immediately before the suffix:
- ial
memorial financial artificial essential
- ual
visual unusual intellectual individual
- ian
Canadian vegetarian pedestrian politician
- sion
explosion occasion conclusion permission
- tion
definition production situation qualification
- ient
ancient sufficient efficient deficient proficient
- cious
delicious conscious suspicious judicious
- tious
ambitious cautious superstitious conscientious
- ic
academic energetic fantastic terrific realistic
- ible
edible flexible incredible impossible
- ity
ability necessity publicity possibility humidity
- ify
classify terrify humidify personify solidify
- logy
biology sociology anthropology psychology
- graphy
geography autobiography photography pornography
- meter
kilometer parameter speedometer thermometer
(C) Stress the second syllable before the suffix:
- ate
operate exaggerate associate integrate certificate
- ize
apologize criticize recognize computerize
- ary
secretary necessary contemporary vocabulary
- ous
dangerous mysterious spontaneous simultaneous
