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6. A word keeps its original meaning but acquires others

  • Coinage
  • Narrowing
  • Broadening
  • Borrowing

7. The introduction of a word from one language to another

  • Compounding
  • Borrowing
  • Narrowing
  • Broadning

8. Positive meaning on a word

  • Anglicied
  • Pejoration
  • Amelioration
  • Archasim

9. The linking of separate words to create a new word

  • Morpheme
  • Coinage
  • Compounding
  • Borrowing

10. A word becomes more specific in its meaning

  • Narrowing
  • Archaism
  • Borrowing
  • Compounding

11. Sound by combining two vowls

  • Pejoration
  • Morpheme
  • Dipthong
  • Coinage

12. The creation of a new word

  • Ameliaration
  • Coinage
  • Borrowing
  • Eponym

13. The name given to a product by a company but becomes the commonly used name for the same product by all compinies

  • Idiom
  • Blend
  • Propriety name
  • Eponym

14. Tardy - an old word no longer in general use

  • Borrowing
  • Pejoration
  • Archaism
  • Dipthong

15. Goes in front of a word. E.g. un

  • Coinage
  • Sufix
  • Prefix
  • Blend