Vocabulary Builder Course A synonym is a word with the same or a similar meaning as another word. For example, the words big and large are synonyms. Buy and purchase are also synonyms – although we tend to use “buy” in a more informal context, and “purchase” in a more formal context. For example have you ever wonder what words you can make with these letters CLIPPED. Our word unscrambler or in other words anagram solver can find the answer with in the blink of an eye and say 49 words found by unscrambling these letters CLIPPED. Playing word games is a joy. Most unscrambled words found in list of 4 letter words. Clipped words can also become new stems. (4) For example, you can take the clipped word “fridge,” from “refrigerator,” and add an “s” to the end, which, of course, yields the plural form—“fridges. Another example is the word “cabbie,” which builds off the clipped word “cab.” Pages. Save Save English Clipped Words For Later. 64% (11) 64% found this document useful (11 votes) 37K views 1 page. English Clipped Words. Uploaded by madalina. Description: Full description. Save Save English Clipped Words For Later. 64% 64% found this document useful, Mark this document as useful.

Maybe it’s a sign that English speakers and writers are lazy, but we have a historic tendency to shorten long words. It tends to start in informal, spoken settings, but eventually the clipped forms make their way into formal, published writing. That’s when the purists object. But nobody really minds the purists. Eventually, the clipped form becomes preferred and we begin to forget what the original word was.

Burger, plane, bike, phone, gym–does anyone not use these words far more than their multi-syllabic original forms? Has anyone ever said, “I’m going to the gymnasium after work”?

Teens (not teenagers) these days love to clip words in texting and conversation (Those shoes are totes adorbs). My kids like to refer to these shortened forms as abbreves. That’s clearly just faddish wordplay. George Orwell, on the other hand, presaged a more ominous kind of clipping in what he called Newspeak in his dystopian classic, 1984, where the Ministry of Truth becomes minitrue, and what we call thought crime is known as crimethink. Orwell was concerned about language and its manipulation by malevolent authorities seeking to control thought, but I don’t think he’d object to the sort of shorthand version of words that gain popularity these days.

Clipped Words Worksheet

Here are some of the more common words that we have created via clipping.

100 Examples Of Clipped Words Worksheets