Lexical change

Question 1

Compounding

Answer 1

Two words combined to create a new word e.g. girlfriend

Question 2

Blending

Answer 2

Combining parts of 2 words into a new term e.g. guesstimate

Question 3

Borrowing

Answer 3

Word/expression taken from another language e.g. vodka from Russian

Question 4

Neogilism

Answer 4

New word is coined e.g. emoji, meme

Question 5

Acronym

Answer 5

Abbreviation written in letters e.g. NASA

Question 6

Initialism

Answer 6

A word formed by taking the first letters in an expression and you pronounce each on individually e.g. BBC

Question 7

Clipping

Answer 7

When a new word is formed by shortening an existing word e.g. flu from the influenza

Question 8

Conversion

Answer 8

When a word class of a term changed e.g. ‘bottle’ can be a verb

Question 9

Affixation

Answer 9

Addition of prefixes/suffixes to existing words e.g. multimedia

Question 10

Eponyms

Answer 10

Words that derive from the names of people e.g. Pasteurise

Question 11

Archaism

Answer 11

Old-fashioned/no longer in common usage e.g. hussie