-itive

-itive

a suffix occurring in substantives of Latin origin: definitive; fugitive.

Origin:
< Latin -itīvus or -ītīvus; see -ite2, -ive

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-itive is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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