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Neologisms Word ProductivitySet 1

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2A palindrome for a baby's napkin is:

3Which of the following is the best example of word coinage?

4Overextension means

5What are 'Internationalisms'?

6Rearrange the given words and make a meaningful word. RETINOP

7Spanish is mostly derived from ....., making up about 75% of its origin. About 8% of the words in Spanish come from .....

8Be particularly mindful of Filipinisms which are ..... (new additional meanings to common words).

9The English word 'cockroach' is a borrowed word from the Spanish 'cucaracha'.

10What language feature is defined as:a recently created word or expression

11What is the term for a newly coined word?

12The word SHAPES, which can stand for Sensation, Heat Regulation, Absorption, Protection, Excretion, and Secretion, is an example of .....

13'The word "tourism" was first coined in the 19th century by a British social scientist named

14Ecology was coined by

15Now a lot of ..... take words from English.

16What is the term for the creation of a completely new word or phrase?

17A light happy sound made by babies around two months of age.

18The word 'grammar' entered the English language from the French language.

19Shaw says English is not a "closed" language but a ..... one.

20Who coined the term 'robotics' in 1945?

21Linguists considered pidginization second-language learning with ..... input.

22WHO COINED THE TERM "ETHNOCENTRISM"?

23The first use of the word "robot" was in what year?

24What activity does an eco-friendly person NOT do?

25Lexical borrowing is used when:

26New forms for meanings already indicated by other words or phrases.

27What are borrowed words?

28Neologisms are produced in accordance with the existing.

29An asterisk before a form indicates that it is a reconstruction based on comparative study.

30What does LED stand for?

31What is 'Coinage (Neologism)'?

32Who coined the word 'Ecology'?

33A word derived from the name of a person or place.

34What term did Popular Science magazine coin in 1941?

35Words from different languages that have a common origin and are often similar in meaning are called

36The word robot was rewritten from a Czech word, so what was the original name?

37What is the origin of most international words?

38What is the term for when a word or phrase is introduced in a literal translation?

39Halliday talks about 'lexical gaps' in language. What does this mean?

40The word 'nice' used to mean clumsy or careless, later foolish but now means agreeable or pleasant, the process whereby a words acquires a more positve meaning is called

41The acronym "EFCS" in safety cable systems stands for:

42Definition of calque

43Which of the following invented words best demonstrates prefix + root + suffix correctly (and plausibly)?

44The term "bug" in computers became famous because of:

45In 1992, RAE ..... the term "cantinflear" as official in the Spanish Dictionary

46CYOTC Means-

47To make up a new word means .....

48Which linguistic term is used to denote the development in an English word of a new meaning due to the influence of a related word in another language?

49He introduced the word Robot.

50Which word formation process imitates sounds, like 'bang' or 'buzz'?

51Why do new scientific words appear?

52"The absence of a word in a particular place in a lexical field of a language" is called?

53Neologism

54Loan translation replicates

55It is a brand new word based on no pre-existing morphemes

56Newly coined words are called .....

57The following English Words came from another language. Can you guess which language it was borrowed from?Coffee

58What is the term for word parts that are combined together to coin a new word?

59English has ..... words from many languages.

60The sources of English synonymy are:

61Mrs. Freel is the GOAT. GOAT stands for (a).