This week we are testing your vocabulary and knowledge of words. Get cracking….

1.‘Netizen’ is a word that is a blend to two words. Do you know these words?

1. The words ‘compliment’ and ‘complement’ are homophones, with compliment meaning ‘an expression of praise’; what is the meaning of ‘complement’?

2. ‘Edutainment’ is a new word that is being used, particularly connected to media; can you guess the very easy words that make up this coined word?

3. The word ‘ingenious’ means clever or inventive, now what is the meaning of the very similar word ‘ingenuous’.

4. There is a dessert called ‘banoffee’ or ‘banofi’, what do you think are its two main flavours or ingredients from which the name has been derived?

5. When the teacher asked to a question in the math class, you made a ‘guestimate’. What does it mean and which two words is it made up of?

6. At school you like to ‘flaunt’ the new designer watch that your daddy bought for you on his last trip to Dubai, but if at school you did ‘flout’ something, you would be in more trouble. What is the meaning of ‘flout’?

7. The word ‘adverse’ means harmful or unfavourable, what does the word ‘averse’ mean?

8. ‘Discreet’ and ‘discrete’ are two of the most confused homophones for most people, while ‘discrete’ means distinct and individually separate, what does ‘discreet’ mean?

Answers:

1. It is derived from the words ‘citizen’ and ‘net’, to mean a dweller of the internet.

2. To add to (something) in a way that enhances or improves it.

3. ‘Education’ and ‘entertainment’. Edutainment is used to refer to a programme that both entertains and educates, such as Sesame Street.

4. Child-like, naive.

5. Banana and toffee.

6. It means a reasonably accurate but not precisely certain calculation about something, and is made by combining the words, ‘guess’ and ‘estimate’.

7. Flout means to openly disregard something, such as a rule.

8. Averse means, ‘opposed to’.

9. Careful, or wise self-restraint in speech and behaviour