What’s the Word?

1. What do we call a sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet?

● Pangram
● Alphabetogram
● Omnilog
● Omnisent

2. What do we call words that we often use even though they add no meaning or value to a
sentence?
● Ghost words
● Crutch words
● Pointless words
● Garbage words

3. What is the opposite of a euphemism?

● misphemism
● dysphemism
● derophemism
● mysophemism

4. Which word refers to a word formed from the initial letters of a name or a series of
words?
● Anagram
● Hologram
● Hyponym
● Acronym

5. Which of these is a nonsense word?

● Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
● Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
● Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
● enneacontakaienneagon

6. Which definition best describes an eponym?

 ● A word derived from the proper name of a person
● A word derived from the same root as another word
● A name used by a group of people to refer to themselves
● A place name or word associated with the place

7. What is the word that represents an obsession with recalling a specific word that one has
forgotten?
● Logamnesia
● Logomisia
● Loganamnosis
● Logomem

8. What do we call a synonym of a synonym?

● Poecilonym
● Synsynonym
● Homonym
● Similinym

9. Which word originally meant ‘child’ or ‘young person’ regardless of gender?

● Lad
● Lass
● Boy
● Girl

10. Which word means ‘worship of words’?

● Theolatry
● Wordworship
● Epeolatry
● Logotheosis