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Across: 1. Assigning an already existing word to a new syntactic category. 3. The addition of an affix to the beginning of a word. 4. Shortening a polysyllabic word by deleting one or more syllables. 5. Words created to sound like the thing that they name. 8. Two or more words joined together to form a new word. 9. A person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc., is named. 10. Similar to a compound, but parts of the words are deleted.

Down: 2. The addition of an affix to the ending of a word. 6. Deriving a word from the initial letters of several words and use them as a new word. 7. A place name, especially one derived from a topographical feature.