Certain suffixes are clues to nouns.
1. ation or tion - starvation, occupation, attention
2. dom - wisdom, freedom
3. er - dancer, teacher
4. hood - statehood, manhood
5. ness - greatness, happiness
6. age - passage, bondage
7. ance - acceptance
8. ism - socialism
9. ist - socialist
10. ment - disappointment