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Morphemes
Word Formation
Brainteasers
Word Coinage
100

Another word for your mental lexicon.

What is a Dictionary?

100

A single morpheme that constitutes a word. E.g boy, man, the, on.

 Free Morpheme

100
When a bound morpheme such as –ify or –ation is added to a root, to make a new word, the word is a ______________.
What is derived word?
100

Riddle time!

What is made of water but if you put it into water it will die?

An ice cube

100

what type of word is UNICEF 

 An Acronym

200

Words that do not have clear lexical meaning or obvious concepts associated with them, including conjunctions, prepositions, articles and pronouns.

Function Words

200

Morpheme that must be attached to other morphemes e.g –ly, -ed, non-.

Bound Morpheme

200
This means that they can be used freely to form new words from the list of free and bound morphemes.
What is Productive?
200

Riddle time!

Who makes it, has no need of it.
Who buys it, has no use for it.
Who uses it can neither see nor feel it.
What is it? .

a coffin

200

This is the invention of a totally new word.

Coinage

300

The study of the structure of words and word formation in a language. It includes processes such as inflection, derivation and compounding.

 Morphology

300

Occur at the beginning of a morpheme, e.g. un-, pre-, bi-

 Prefix

300
Blick and Slarm are examples of this type of word formation.
What is Lexical Gaps?
300

Riddles

You can drop me from the tallest building and I'll be fine, but if you drop me in water I die. What am I?

paper

300

Brainwash, facebook, and seasick are examples of this type of word formation process

Compounding

400

Free Points!

This is just a gift....... free points!

400

An affix that is attached to the end of a morpheme, e.g. –ing, -er, -ly.

Suffix

400

Every ___________ has specific rules of word formation.

language

400

Brain Teaser

There are three houses. One is red, one is blue, and one is white. If the red house is to the left of the house in the middle, and the blue house is to the right to the house in the middle, where is the white house?

In Washinton D.C

400

This process is when a word changes to another function experimenting changes in its form.

Backformation

500

nouns, verbs adjectives and adverbs, they denote concepts such as objects, actions, attributes and ideas that we can think about like children, anarchism, soar, and purple.

Content Words

500

morphemes that are attached to another morpheme both initially and finally. ex: en- & -en = enlighten

Circumfixes

500

The amount of words that are in this utterance "Thecatranafterthelazydog"

 Seven

500

Brain Teaser

What are the next three letters in the following sequence?J, F, M, A, M, J, J, A, __, __, __

S, O, N

500

When you put breakfast and lunch together,  you get.

Brunch