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I. Fill the blanks with necessary words beginning with the letter given:

1.S________is defined as the study of meaning.

2.A______, m______is what is communicated of the feeling or attitude of the speaker/writer toward what is referred to. Statesman is commending in sense while politician is derogatory.

3.S______are words which have different form but similar meaning.

4.Synonyms of different r_____ are words similar in meaning but used in different spheres.

5.In traditional terminology, a______ are words which are opposite in meaning.

6.G______ a______ are pairs of words opposite to each other, but the positive of one word does not necessarily imply the negative of the other, or vice versa.

7.H______ are words which have the same form, but different meaning.

8.A p______ is a word which has several related senses.

9.H______ is a relation of inclusion. Tiger, lion, elephant are hyponyms of the word animal. Words like animal are called s_____ .

10.The approach that analyzes word meaning by decomposing it into its atomic features is called c_____ a______.


II. The following pairs of words or phrases are similar in meaning. Try to tell the difference between the two words or expressions in light of classification of lexical meaning:

1. choir/chorus

2. enshroud/cover

3. pass away/die

4. mail/post

5. fetid/bad smell

6. beauty/siren

7. assassinate/murder


III. There are three kinds of antonymy. By writing C, G, or R in the bank, indicate whether the pair is complementary, gradable, or reversal opposites:

1. rich/poor

2. male/female

3. dead/alive

4. husband/wife

5. come/go

6. ascend/descend