Abstract: The aim and the subject of this study are verbal neologisms which represent one of the most numerous and creative lexical classes in the general class of neologisms, in which the flexibility of a language system and the intention of a speaker to add additional features to the speech are realized, also new semantic manifestations of words on the material of periodicals of the late XX century, systemized in a dictionary edited by T.N. Butseva, the main attention is paid to the word-formative aspect: determination of the most common ways of word-formation of verbal innovation, the construction of word-formation models, the identification of the most productive means. The purpose of this article is to study the verbal neologisms and new semantic manifestations of words with the help of descriptive, structural and functional methods on the material of periodicals of the late XX century, systemized in a dictionary edited by T.N. Butseva, the main attention is paid to the word-formative aspect. During studying the problem, verbal innovations were distinguished from the total number of neologisms, word-formation models were constructed, the most productive word-formation models, methods, and means were revealed. The results of the study are necessary for the systematization of lexical units, they are an element in the teaching of various branches of linguistics, for example, morphemics and word formation, lexicology, etc., a source for study in the field of psycholinguistics and other sciences that arose on the border with linguistics.