Vocabulary Words and Their Meaning
- English Word-Making is primarily a synchronic study of the English language. Its chief purpose is to illustrate and analyze the type of word formation within and characterize the present-day English linguistic system.
- Word is a sound or a combination of sounds, or its representative in writing or printing, that symbolizes and expresses a meaning. It consists of a single morpheme or a combination of morphemes.
- The identification, description, and analysis of morphemes and the study of their role in word formation is called morphology.
- A morpheme is the smallest indivisible unit of semantic content and grammatical function.
- Word roots are from other languages that are the origin of many English words.
- Prefixes and suffixes can then be linked to the roots to form new words.
- Words can sometimes belong to different grammatical classes, such as nouns, adjectives, or verbs.
- A compound word is a union of two or more words to convey a unit idea or special meaning that is not as clearly or quickly conveyed by separated words.
- Compound words can take three possible forms: closed, open, or hyphenated.
- Homonyms may refer to three distinct classes of words.
- A homographis a word that shares the exact spelling as another word but has a different meaning.
- Context clues give an idea, or hint, of what an unfamiliar word might mean.
- Contextual meaning is the meaning of a lexeme or word inside a context.
- Denotation is defined as a dictionary of the word.
- Connotationis the emotional and imaginative association surrounding a word.
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