Clipping and Blending

What do you call the word formation process in which a word is reduced or shortened without changing the meaning of the word?

• Blending

• Clipping

• Singing

• Dancing

What is the clipped form of the word "advertisment"?

What do you call the word formation process in which parts of two or more words combine to create a new word whose meaning is often a combination of the original words?

• Blending

• Singing

• Dancing

• Clipping

breakfast + lunch → ?

• lunchfast

• brunch

• breanch

• breaklunch

Clipped words are also referred to as portmanteaus.

• true

• false

• tralse

Clipping is the process of the cutting of the beginning or the end of a word, or both, leaving a part to stand for the whole.

• true

• false

• tralse

What is the clipped form of the word "gymnasium"?

What is the clipped form of the word "gasoline"?

• gas

• gasol

Blending differs from back-formation in that the new word retains the meaning of the original word.

• true

• false

• tralse

web + seminar →

• webinar

• sweb

• weminar