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The suffix is placed after the root of a word, the prefix before. So the root is what's left once suffixes, prefixes, and case endings have been taken away. In the case of the word enlargement, the root is enlarge. The suffix -ment refers to an action, or the result of an action. So enlargment denotes the action, or the result of the action, of getting larger.

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