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Ôn TH Word Formation-Key
Ôn TH Word Formation-Key
words.
exact fender-bender teeny-weeny LASER
reduplication
fuddy-duddy willy-nilly PIN
blah-blah
fuzzy-wuzzy ablaut RADAR
bling-bling reduplication
handy-dandy SCUBA
boo-boo bric-a-brac
hanky-panky TASER
bye-bye chit-chat
harum-scarum WASP
choo-choo clippity-cloppity
heebie-jeebies NASA
chop-chop criss-cross
helter-skelter SEAL
gaga dilly-dally
herky-jerky SWAT
goody-goody ding-dong
higgledy- UNICEF
knock-knock piggledy fiddle-faddle
NAFTA
night-night hob-nob flim-flam
NATO
no-no hocus-pocus flip-flop
SMART
pee-pee hodge-podge hee-haw
POTUS
poo-poo hoity-toity knick-knack
KISS
rah-rah hokey-pokey mishmash
LOL
so-so holey-moley ping-pong
RAM
ta-ta hugger-mugger pitter-patter
JPEG
tom-tom hurly-burly riff-raff
GIF
tum-tum itsy-bitsy seesaw
DARE
yada-yada jeepers-creepers shilly-shally
YOLO
yum-yum lovey-dovey ship-shape
close
rhyming mumbo-jumbo sing-song compounding
reduplication
namby-pamby tick-tock bullfrog
abracadabra
nit-wit tip-top snowball
bees-knees
nitty-gritty tittle-tattle mailbox
boogie-woogie
okey-dokey wishy-washy grandmother
boy-toy
pell-mell zig-zag railroad
chick-flick
phoney-baloney Acronyms sometimes
clap-trap
pow-wow AIDS inside
double-trouble
razzle-dazzle ASAP upstream
eency-weency
ring-a-ling AWOL basketball
even-steven
super-duper IMAX anybody
outside over-the-counter vet handwrite
cannot clipping coinage housekeep
skateboard ad aspirin injure
everything auto escalator isolate
schoolhouse bike heroin jell
grasshopper burger band-aid kidnap
sunflower bus factoid laze
moonlight champ Frisbee mentee
open co-op Google unit
compounding
copter kerosene vaccinate
peanut butter
cuke Kleenex borrowing
Boy Scouts
exam Laundromat ballet
no one
flu linoleum café
ice cream
fridge muggle croissant
real estate
gas nylon Entrepreneur
high school
gym psychedelic Genre
living room
grad quark renaissance
sweet tooth
hippo Xerox rendezvous
hot dog
limo zipper fest
grand jury
lab back formation kindergarten
post office
lunch addict waltz
full moon
math babysit rucksack
half sister
memo brainwash glitch
cave in
mike beg macho
hyphenanted
phone donate patio
compounding
photo orate plaza
two-fold
plane typewrite karaoke
check-in
rhino enthuse karate
merry-go-round
stats transmit tsunami
father-in-law
stereo televise chocolate
seventy-two
sub create dim sum
long-term
taxi form tofu
up-to-date
teen escalate typhoon
mother-in-law
tux reminisce paparazzi
one-half
van coronate taekwondo
blending globish cyborg medicare
hangry Nollywood bit newscast
emoticon Bollywood camcorder mobike
sitcom bionic chunnel skylab
mansplaining brunch hi-tech workaholic
spork blog heliport vegeburger
chillax vlog Interpol transistor
motel smog manimal
1.
a. conversion b. backformation
c. clipping (from recapitulation) d. compounding (conversion too? verb return to noun)
e. reduplication f. compounding
g. blending h. borrowing & compounding (bona + fide = good faith)
i. conversion j. reduplication
k. blending l. clipping (from memorandum)
2.
a. acronym (“Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome”)
b. coinage
c. conversion (noun “party” → verb)
d. compounding (“skate” + “board”) and compounding (“kick” + “ass”) and conversion (verb
“kick” + noun “ass” → adjective “kickass”)
e. clipping (“doctor”) and clipping (“veterinarian”)
f. backformation (verb “burgle” from noun “burglar”) and backformation (verb “babysit” from
noun “babysitter”, which is a compound (“baby” + “sitter”).
g. borrowing (from Arabic “suffa”) and hypocorism (from “comfortable”)
h. two examples of conversion of verbs (“to guess,” “to bail out”) to nouns.
i. conversion of the noun (“a button”) to a verb and blending of two words (“velours croché”),
borrowed from French
3.
a. Are you still using that old car-phone?
b. Can you FedEx the books to me today?
c. Police have reported an increase in carjackings in recent months.
d. Welcome, everyone, to karaokenight at Cathy’s Bar and Grill!
e. I had to temp for a while before I got a real job.