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When one, two, or even three words are combined to form another word, we usually call them "blended words." However, a more formal term is "portmanteau." If you think you're a wordsmith, test your knowledge here with our blended word quiz.
What does 'brunch' mean?
A rocket ship.
A small gardening tool.
A meal eaten in between two other meal times.
As a combined form of breakfast + lunch, brunch means a meal that you eat between breakfast and lunchtime. It usually takes over lunch time, too, especially for very slow eaters.
A personalized restaurant.
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What is a 'frenemy' ?
An ex-lover.
An acquaintance from high school.
A distant relative.
A pal, but not really.
A frenemy is someone who acts like your friend but is also an enemy. Whether both parties are self-aware that they are frenemies is beside the point.
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What is an 'emoticon'?
A Telco worker.
A smartphone brand.
An IT person.
A fun computer symbol.
An emoticon is an icon made up of keyboard symbols which form an emotional facial expression when combined. An example is. :) for a smiling face.
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What is a 'sitcom'?
An educational class.
A TV show genre.
A sitcom is a comedic TV show whose humor arises from certain situations set up in the storylines. So you have to understand the story's context first, in order to get the jokes.
A skills training.
An illegal immigrant.
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What is a 'flirtationship'?
A mistaken identity.
A death sentence.
A fun informal bonding.
A flirtationship is a kind of "relationship" that you have with someone, only you're merely flirting back and forth. Whether the flirtationship develops into something else is not really a major concern.
A work-from-home career.
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What does 'netiquette' mean?
One's online behavior.
Netiquette is someone's behavior while on the internet. It follows similar rules to etiquette in real life.
A historical landmark.
An embroidery pattern.
A work of art.
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What is 'hazmat'?
A secret military operation.
A mechanical weapon.
Toxic chemicals of sorts.
Hazmat means hazardous materials. This is usually in the form of human-made chemical stuff.
A Halloween costume.
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What is a 'travelogue'?
An alcoholic beverage.
A food category.
A talk about one's journeys.
Travelogue is a combination of travel + monologue. It is a discussion of a person's travels, and it can be in the form of a book, TV series, a film, or any other means where one can discuss.
An Alanis Morissette CD title.
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What does 'bromance' mean?
A computer program.
Amusic category.
An intense bond between men.
When two guys are having a bromance, it means they're very close, kind of like brothers, or super-duper best friends. Contrary to the romance aspect, it's usually platonic, even if it's emotionally intense.
A new college course.
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What is a 'carjack'?
A sports car model.
A Vin Diesel film.
A novel villain.
A vehicle robbery.
A carjacking is when a vehicle, usually a car, is stolen, usually by force, and while the original driver is still there inside. The intention is to take the vehicle away for one reason or the other.
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What is a 'shopaholic'?
An upper-class beverage.
Someone obsessed with purchasing stuff.
An alcoholic is someone who's addicted to alcohol or drinking, so a shopaholic would be someone addicted to shopping, regardless of what kind of items they buy.
A village in Eastern Europe.
A cow breed.
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What does 'cosplay' mean?
A futuristic house design.
A foreign guest.
A Japanese toy.
Pop culture dress-up.
Cosplay is the action of people, usually grown-ups, who don costumes to look like their favorite pop culture characters, and attend an event or party dressed in that costume. There are conventions for this activity, and it is serious play for many adults around the world.
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What is a 'guesstimate'?
A chocolate connoisseur.
A feminist.
An assumption of value.
A guesstimate is when someone thinks up a ballpark figure or assessment of a certain amount. Since they can't estimate the exact amount, well, they guess it!
A farmer's tool.
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What is 'mansplaining'?
Devaluing of women talking.
When a man condescendingly talks down to a woman to explain things to her, it's mansplaining. Usually, a mansplainer takes over the conversation and talks above a woman while she's still talking; the objective is to hijack the conversation away from her.
A kitchen utensil.
A breed of swine.
A work activity.
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What is a 'turducken'?
A scientific process.
A kind of party.
A city in South America.
A mixture of food animals.
A turducken is a combined turkey, duck, and chicken, all mixed up with one another. Whoever thought of this food invention seriously had a lot of time on their hands.
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What is a 'blog'?
A heavenly body.
A macho brute.
A kind of website.
A blog is a website run personally by an individual, usually for free. Anything could be logged in there.
An uneducated person.
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What is a 'cyborg'?
A computer program.
Part human, part robot.
A cyborg is a combined human and machine; it could also be a basic human with robotic or machine-like parts built into their bodies.
A mountaineering gadget.
A celestial phenomenon.
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What is a 'mocktail'?
A TV series.
A harmless drink.
A mocktail is a drink that is meant to be a cocktail, but contains everything except the alcohol; the liquor is often substituted by something else.
A brand of French Fries.
A restaurant chain.
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What is a 'spork'?
A de-boned animal.
A combined utensil.
A spork is a two-in-one utensil that has the round shape of a spoon plus the prongs of a fork. Yes, this is a thing.
A sub-genre of country music.
A dance craze in Asia.
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What is a 'workaholic'?
An old Latin phrase.
Someone who takes their job very seriously.
A workaholic is someone who works so hard that it looks like they're addicted to working! It doesn't matter if it's overtime at the office or bringing work at home; a workaholic could strike anywhere!
Wild behavior.
An academician.
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What is a 'staycation'?
A video game console.
A South American city.
When you relax without traveling out of the country.
A staycation is a vacation spent in one's home or hometown. It's the opposite of a vacation where people travel somewhere else.
A TV series.
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What is 'malware'?
A computer virus of sorts.
Malware is a hidden malicious program that creeps into your computer to destroy its system. It's like infecting one's computer with something worse than a virus.
A Russian spy.
A prison inmate term.
An adopted baby.
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What does 'glamping' mean?
a traveler's item.
jet-setting.
A kind of camping, but not the dirty kind.
Glamping means camping out in luxury. Glampers are known to have tents that have airconditioning or some prefer to bunk up inside cabins that have amenities regular camping tents do not.
Staying in a nursing home.
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What is 'gaydar'?
Secretly hiding documents.
Ability to identify someone's sexual orientation.
Gaydar is someone's perceived ability to detect another person's sexual orientation. While it can be a fun term, it can also be dangerous, especially if a person uses it malicious or falsely.
An underwater military vehicle.
A flamboyant person.
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What is an 'infomercial'?
A former newspaper title.
A Times Square billboard.
A retail TV show.
An infomercial is designed like a regular TV show, usually a talk/variety show, which presents information about a specific product. However, its main objective is to be an extended commercial for that product, because the intention is to sell it and not merely promote it.
A New York food truck.
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What does 'chillax' mean?
To spit in one's grave.
To climb a mountain.
To really, really, really take it easy.
Chillax means to chill out, or to calm one's self down, and relax a little, or a lot. To be almost zen-like might be the objective of one who chillaxes.
To pray.
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What is a 'webinar'?
A bar flunker.
An online session.
A webinar is a seminar organized to be broadcast over the web or internet. People from all over the world could tune or join in, without physically going to where the seminar is located.
A comic book title.
A cosplay costume.
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What is a 'sexcapade'?
A kind of motorbike.
A sexually-oriented adventure.
A sexcapade is someone's adventurous activity involving bedroom activities. Whether it's a two-person activity or a group thing doesn't really matter, as long as it's seen as an intimate adventure.
An 18th-century navigation equipment.
A rude person from the countryside.
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What does 'telegenic' mean?
To act like a villain.
To be free from fear.
To communicate from a long distance.
To look nice and fit on TV.
Telegenic means that someone is very good-looking when they appear on a TV show or other program. It's a combination of television and photogenic.
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What is 'smog'?
A kind of truck.
A cigarette brand in Europe.
A fictional character from the Tolkien universe.
Heavy evidence of air pollution.
Smog is when a city's atmosphere is so polluted that a dark fog-like element hovers over it. While it might look cool because it's foggy, it's not healthy.
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What is an 'alcopop'?
A concept store.
A light, liquor-filled beverage.
An alcopop is a beverage with very low alcohol content and packaged like a soda pop. Wine coolers are an example.
A dance craze in Germany.
A traveling library.
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What is a 'fanzine'?
A major media outlet.
An informal print publication.
A fanzine is often a free or cheap publication made by fans of a certain pop culture product or phenomenon. They are usually very creative and free-spirited in nature, but its content can also be professional at times.
A radio program.
A character from Les Miserables.
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What is a 'motel'?
A religious denomination.
A religious denomination.
A small short-term rental place.
A motel is like a hotel, but usually smaller in stature and less upscale. They are built for travelers on the go and were first constructed along highways so motorists could easily come and go.
A kind of currency in Africa.
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What is a 'tween'?
A TV show genre.
An Old English outdated term.
A young person of a distinct age range.
A tween is a young person who's a bit old to be considered a child, but also a bit young to be considered a teenager. Usually, the age range is from 10-12 years of age.
A training manual.
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What does 'edutainment' mean?
A small car.
A principal's rank.
A fun kind of learning tool.
Edutainment is any pop culture product, like TV shows or games, which aims to be educational while being entertaining at the same time. Products like these are usually geared for younger learners.
A kind of teacher training course.
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