Vocab Facts

Question 1

How many words are there in English?

Answer 1

At least 500.000

Question 2

How many words did Winston Churchill use in his writing?

Answer 2

60.000

Question 3

How many words does the average native English speaker use in his/ her everyday speech?

Answer 3

5.000

Question 4

How many words make up 45% of everything written in English?

Answer 4

50

Question 5

What are collocations?

Answer 5

natural expressions unsed by native speaker

Question 6

What does paradigmatic mean?

Answer 6

it refers to the way words can be substituted by certain other words (synonyms,…)

Question 7

What does syntagmatic mean?

Answer 7

it refers to the way words occur in sequences

Question 8

What are Hyponyms?

Answer 8

Unterbegriff
…words whose meanings are specific instances of a more general hyperonym
-> blue to color

Question 9

Hyperonym

Answer 9

Oberbegriff

Question 10

Meronyms

Answer 10

refer to the parts of a whole or holonym
-> tree to forest

Question 11

Polysemy

Answer 11

words that have meaning

Question 12

Homonym

Answer 12

words with same spelling and pronounciation but different meaning
-> bank and bank

Question 13

Homophones

Answer 13

words with same pronounciation, but different spelling and meaning
-> their and they’re

Question 14

Homographs

Answer 14

words with same spelling but different pronouciation/ meaning
-> wind and wind

Question 15

Binomials

Answer 15

are expressions in which two words are joined by “and”, “or” etc. and often employ alliteration or assonance
-> rough and ready

Question 16

Etymology

Answer 16

study of the origin of words

Question 17

Derivation

Answer 17

Describes the origin of a word

Question 18

Cognates

Answer 18

words in two or more languages with the same origin

Question 19

False Friends

Answer 19

words in two or more languages which look or sound similar but have different meanings

Question 20

Confusables

Answer 20

two or more words odten confused with eacht other by non-native speaker

Question 21

Compound

Answer 21

word which consists of more than one free morpheme

Question 22

closed (or solid) form compund

Answer 22

two short words are written together

Question 23

hyphenated compound

Answer 23

two or more words are linked by hyphens (-)

Question 24

open (spaced) compound

Answer 24

more recent combination of longer words

Question 25

Conversion

Answer 25

process whereby a word may be used in different parts of speech; yet does not change form

Question 26

Back- formations

Answer 26

new words created essentially by taking away endings from root word

Question 27

Epigram

Answer 27

short, witty saing that conveys much meaning in few words

Question 28

Anagram

Answer 28

changing the order of letters to form a new word or phrase