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Question 1

neologism

Answer 1

a new word

Question 2

hypernym

Answer 2

the word with a broad coverage of meaning e.g. tree

Question 2

hypernym

Answer 2

the word with a broad coverage of meaning e.g. tree

Question 3

hyponym

Answer 3

the specific element under a hypernym red e.g scarlett

Question 4

homonym

Answer 4

same form but two different meanings

Question 5

synonym

Answer 5

a word with a similar meaning as another. For example, huge
and massive are considered synonyms of big.

Question 6

antonym

Answer 6

refers to a word with the opposite meaning to another. For example, hot is an antonym of cold.

Question 7

amelioration

Answer 7

where the meaning of a word becomes more
positive over time

Question 8

pejoration

Answer 8

where the meaning of a word becomes less positive
over time

Question 9

connotation

Answer 9

refers to the associated meanings of a word that go beyond their literal definition.

Question 10

collocation

Answer 10

refers to two or more words that typically go together as a set phrase.
For example, bread and butter, tea and biscuits, pay attention.

Question 11

inflectional morpheme

Answer 11

refers to the bound morphemes that
indicate a shift in grammatical tense e.g. plurals and tense markers

Question 12

derivational morpheme

Answer 12

refers to the bound morphemes that change a word’s class or meaning e.g. suffixes such as -ful, -less, -
able.

Question 13

noun phrase

Answer 13

a phrase where the head word is a noun, usually
structured as determiner + noun e.g. The dog

Question 14

modified noun phrase

Answer 14

a noun phrase which includes an adjective e.g. The huge dog

Question 15

adjective phrase

Answer 15

usually structured as adverb + adjective e.g.
very loud

Question 16

adverbial phrase

Answer 16

usually structured as two or more adverbs e.g.
quite smoothly

Question 17

main or independent clause

Answer 17

a clause which is made up of a
subject and a predicate and expresses a complete concept. For
example, ‘We walked home,’ where ‘we’ is the subject and ‘walked
home’ is the predicate

Question 18

a subordinate or dependent clause

Answer 18

a clause which depends on
the main clause to make sense. For example, ‘If I get out early, I
will wait in the common room’

Question 19

co-ordinate clause

Answer 19

– a main clause which is preceded by a coordinating conjunction connecting it to another main clause. For
example, ‘He was angry and he was tired’.