Word Formation Processes

Question 1

Neologisms

Answer 1

The term gave to a newly made word.

Question 2

Blends

Answer 2

Words produced by using parts of two words.

Question 3

Initialisms

Answer 3

Words made up of the start of letters of other words.

Question 4

Acronyms

Answer 4

Words that come from the first letter of another word under its own right.

Question 5

Shortenings

Answer 5

Dropping the endings of a word (reductions).

Question 6

Compounding

Answer 6

The process of creating new words from 2 free morphemes together.

Question 7

Conversion

Answer 7

The process of converting a word from one word class to another.

Question 8

Contractions

Answer 8

The action of squeezing two words into one with an apostrophe.

Question 9

Collocations

Answer 9

Words within phrases that are associated with the other that when we hear them we automatically provide the other.

Question 10

Borrowing

Answer 10

The action of borrowing words from another culture.

Question 11

Commonisation

Answer 11

Everyday words that came from proper nouns.

Question 12

Archaism

Answer 12

Words that we no longer use in everyday life.