The politician’s plan has many drawbacks. The people rejected it.

My experience with the earthquake was horrible. The wall of our kitchen cracked

Directions: Read the sentences carefully then do the following. Choose the correct meaning of the compound word.

I was outraged when I saw that a bully pushing the smaller boy.

The politician’s plan has many drawbacks. The people rejected it.

3. I don’t want to do a homework when I’m in the house.

My experience with the earthquake was horrible. The wall of our kitchen cracked.

Figure out the meaning of the italicized compound word by looking for its synonym.

You’ve got a new wristwatch which is similar to my two-year-old timepiece

The clock hands and numerals are luminous or light-emitting for they glow even in the darkest place.

Self-winding watches became popular in the 1920’s so did automatic clocks.

The schedule of flights to the south is as tight as the timetable of sea trips.

Celebrating a fiesta is a time-honored Filipino tradition that dates back to a long-established Spanish culture centuries ago.

____________words are formed by putting two or more words together to form a new word with a new meaning

A __________is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language.

A word of opposite meaning

Hilltop is the same as

Midway is the same as

Compound words are words formed by joining ___different words together.

üThere are three types of compound words: open, closed, and ______.

The resulting compound word has a ____meaning.

To figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word, _______clues may be used.

Read each sentence and identify the meaning of the underlined compound word .

There is no place so sweet and comfortable as one’s motherland.

Mr. Fuentes has been working as the editor-in-chief of a leading magazine in the city.

My brother’s mother-in-law from Canada has just arrived to visit her daughter

The real estate agent is selling some lots.

Someone is an example of the closed compound word while mother tongue is an example of___________.

Time zone, is an example of the open compound word while son-in-law, is an example of___________.

Time zone, is an example of the open compound word while mother tongue is an example of___________.

The airfield was too small to serve as a landing strip for the sky jet. The underlined word in as example of ____________________.

Mrs. Santos is our part-time teacher in Mathematics. The underlined word in as example of ____________________.