Compound words are formed when two or more separate words are joined together. This creates a brand new word that often has a new meaning. I think I see a pattern emerging. It's a football. Some snow ...

Compound words are made up of two parts of speech. For example, the compound noun handkerchief is made up of two nouns: hand + kerchief. Semantically, compound words are very interesting, since their ...

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On-air challenge: For each word starting with "W," think of another word, also starting with W, that can follow the first to complete a compound word or a familiar two-word phrase. Example: Walk --> ...

Compound words are made up of two parts of speech. For example, the compound noun handkerchief is made up of two nouns: hand + kerchief. Semantically, compound words are very interesting, since their ...

You are given a compound word and a clue. The answer is another compound word whose halves rhyme, respectively, with the halves of the original compound word. For example, given "lamplight," with the ...

In a move that could trigger fits of fury among readers, Oxford University Press — publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary — has picked "rage bait" as its 2025 Word of the Year.

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Last year, OUP named “brain rot” as the Oxford Word of the Year 2024, defined as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of ...