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Approximately how many words are added to English dictionaries each year?
10,000
1,000
6,000
300
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Which country contains the largest English-speaking population in the world?
China
The United States
Australia
India
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How many diphthongs are there in English?
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7
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True or False? From the dialects and vocabulary of Germanic peoplesâAngles, Saxons, and Jutesâwho settled in Britain in the 5th century
True
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Roughly what proportion of the world's population is competent in English?
one in 100
one in four
one in 10
one in 1000
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rocket
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banana
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Name one process of word formation.
compounding, affixation, blending, clipping, acronym formation
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A sound formed by combining two vowels in a single syllable is called a ______.
diphthong
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heart
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magnet
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fairy
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thief
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Now, well, you know, and like are examples of
discourse markers
intensifiers
slang
backchanneling
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boom
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seesaw
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fairy
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thief
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Supportive terms such as âohâ and âreallyâ are examples of
backchanneling
clarifying
hedging
fillers
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Which of the following is the longest word that appears in a play by William Shakespeare?
incomprehensibleness
disproportionableness
sesquipedalian
honorificabilitudinitatibus
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What is polysemy?
When a word form has multiple meanings that may potentially be related to one another?
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Smog â smoke + fog is an example of blending. Give another example.
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What is the negative counter-part to synonymy called?
Antonymy
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