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Question 1

prefix

Answer 1

refers to an affix that is placed at the beginning of a root word e.g ‘dis’ in front of ‘interested’

Question 2

suffix

Answer 2

refers to an affix that is placed at the end of a root word e.g ‘ment’ after ‘state’

Question 3

morpheme

Answer 3

the smallest unit of meaning e.g the word ‘helped’ is made up of two morphemes ‘help’ and ‘ed’; a verb/noun and a suffix

Question 4

collocation

Answer 4

refers to 2 or more words that typically go together as a set phrase e.g tea and biscuits, bread and butter, pay attention

Question 5

hypernym

Answer 5

a topic word or an umbrella term for many things e.g tree, car

Question 6

hyponym

Answer 6

the words under a topic word or umbrella term e.g hyponyms for the hypernym red would be vermilion, crimson etc

Question 7

neologism

Answer 7

a newly-coined/invented word e.g meme

Question 8

rhotic

Answer 8

where the r sound is rolled in words like farmer, car, like in West Country pronunciations

Question 9

glottal t

Answer 9

where the t sound isn’t pronounced in words like water, bottle, butter, typical to the Cockney accent

Question 10

h-dropping

Answer 10

dropping the h sound in words like haven’t and hard, typical to the Cockney accent