Vocab Lesson 1

Question 0

Affix

Answer 0

A prefix or a suffix

Ex: reappearance has two words re- and -ance

Question 1

Acronym

Answer 1

A word formed from the first letter of each series.

Ex: Yolo - you only live once

Question 2

Coinage

Answer 2

The invention of new words

Ex: Swag

Question 3

Colloquial

Answer 3

Typical of informal language usage; conversational

Ex: “hi” or “what’s up” are colloquial expressions for “hello”

Question 4

Diminutive

Answer 4

Suffix that indicates small size, youth, familiarity, affection, or contempt.

Ex: the diminutive dollhouse furniture enchanted the youngsters

Question 5

Metonymy

Answer 5

Substitutes a different world but closely associated word.

Ex: “the hand that rocks the cradle” refers to a mother.

Question 6

Oxymoron

Answer 6

An expression that contains contradictory terms.

Ex: good grief

Question 7

Palindrome

Answer 7

Words that spell the same forward and backward.

Ex: rotor and civic

Question 8

Portmanteau word

Answer 8

A word formed by sounds and meaning of two words.

Ex: swag + yolo = swaglo

Question 9

Spoonerism

Answer 9

An often comical switching of the first sounds of two or more words.

Ex: lack of pies. Pack of lies