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PRELIM DRILLS

SOUNDS
WORD FORMATION
Identify which among the words
does not belong to the group.

Haste
Waste
Paste
Caste
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does not belong to the group.

Bait
Heat
Keep
Piece
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does not belong to the group.

Could
Food
Look
Crook
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does not belong to the group.

Cook
Spoon
Look
Crook
Identify which among the words
does not belong to the group.

Spite
Light
Sight
Death
Identify which among the words
does not belong to the group.

Song
Cinema
Court
Salmon
Which among the following words
uses the [ɔ] sound?

Come
Law
Sound
Soon
Which among the following words
uses the [ð] sound?

Thought
Theme
Cloth
Breathe
Which among the following words
does NOT use the [ʃ] sound?

Archive
Cache
Crash
Shine
Which among the following words
does not use the [ŋ] sound?

Uncle
Sung
Spinner
Finger
Identify the word formation
process used in the word below.

bittersweet

Compounding
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process used in the word below.

donation → donate

Back-formation
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process used in the word below.

Café (French)

Borrowing
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process used in the word below.

Frenemy

Blending
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process used in the word below.

Memorandum → memo

Clipping
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process used in the word below.

Marry → marriage

Derivation
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process used in the word below.

Bottle (n) → verb (to bottle a drink)

Conversion
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process used in the word below.

AWOL

Acronym
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process used in the word below.

Band-aid

Coinage
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process used in the word below.

Beauty → beautify

Derivation
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process used in the word below.

Bike

Clipping
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process used in the word below.

GIF

Acronym
Graphics Interchange Format
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process used in the word below.

Doc

Clipping
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process used in the word below.

Happy → happiness

Derivation

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