contentive

con·ten·tive

[kuhn-ten-tiv]
noun Linguistics.
a content word or a morpheme that is the root of a content word. Compare functor ( def 2 ).

Origin:
content1 + -ive

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Contentive is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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