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Question 1

Obsolete

Answer 1

No longer in use - often because the meaning is no longer understood.

Question 2

Derivation

Answer 2

Forming a new word from an existing word, often by adding a prefix or suffix.

Question 3

Coinage

Answer 3

The creation of a new word which people start to use.

Question 4

Neologism

Answer 4

A newly invented word.

Question 5

Eponym

Answer 5

A word which takes the name of its inventor or discoverer.

Question 6

Prefix

Answer 6

A group of letters added to the beginning of a word to make a new word.

Question 7

Suffix

Answer 7

A group of letters added at the end of a word to make a new word.

Question 8

Root/Stem

Answer 8

The part of a word which cannot be changed and which can be added to for a change in meaning.

Question 9

Conversion

Answer 9

Creating a new word, or a new word class, from an existing one, or a different one.
(E.g. the noun green for golf derived from the adjective green.)

Question 10

Telescoping

Answer 10

The contraction of a word or phrase, on the analogy of a telescope being closed.
(Biodegradable from biologically degradable)

Question 11

Compounding

Answer 11

Forming a new word from two or more units that are themselves words.
(Blackboard from black board)

Question 12

Blending

Answer 12

Forming a new word by joining the beginning of one word to the end of another.
(Smog formed by smoke and fog)

Question 13

Coalescence

Answer 13

The phonological process whereby two sounds merge into one.

Assume pronounced as ashume

Question 14

Backformation

Answer 14

The formation of a simpler word from an existing one that appears to be derived from it.
(Enthuse from enthusiasm)

Question 15

Reduplication

Answer 15

Where sounds are repeated with identical or only very slight change; a characteristic of infant speech.

Question 16

Borrowing

Answer 16

The introduction of specific words, constructions, or morphological elements from one language to another.

Question 17

Neuter

Answer 17

In language terms, neither female nor male.

Question 18

Inflection

Answer 18

Any form or change of from which distinguishes grammatical forms of the same lexical unit.
(Books - book, distinguished by the inflection s)

Question 19

Archaism

Answer 19

In English language, words which are no longer in everyday use or have lost a particular meaning in current usage.

Question 20

Etymology

Answer 20

The study of the historical relation between a word and the earlier form or forms from which it has developed.

Question 21

Amelioration

Answer 21

When a word takes on a more positive connotation over time.

Nice, which originally meant foolish or absurd

Question 22

Pejoration

Answer 22

When a word takes on a more negative connotation over time.

Question 23

Broadening

Answer 23

When the meaning of a word becomes broader or more inclusive than its earlier meaning.

Question 24

Narrowing

Answer 24

When the meaning of a word becomes narrower and more exclusive than its earlier meaning.

Question 25

Prescriptivism

Answer 25

The view that language should have a strict set of rules that must be obeyed in speech and writing.

Question 26

Descriptivism

Answer 26

The view that no use of language is incorrect, and that variation should be acknowledged and recorded rather than corrected.