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Absolute synonymy are rare because they are ...
Choose absolute absolute synonyms
chair/sofa
somebody/someone
elevator/lift
noone/anyone
Define plesionyms
Plesionyms differ in meaning entirely.
Plesionyms differ in meaning, but sound the same.
Plesionyms differ in meaning slightly.
Plesionyms are pronounced differently, but have the same meaning.
What is an example of plesionym?
rain/fog
bark/bark
misty/foggy
sell/cell
What is an example of near synonymy?
error, mistake
bear/bear
mist/fog
What are cognitive synonymy?
Illustrate only the difference in time, dialect and intensity.
Illustrate the difference in style and register only.
Illustrate the difference in style, register, intensity, semantic analysis, time, dialects and connotations
What is an example of emotive connotation? More than one is correct.
politician - statesman
Monday -Mondayitis
smell - fragrance
pretty-beautiful
Are CONTRARY antonymy gradable?
yes
no
Complementary Antonyms are ...
Complementary adjectives ONLY (true-false, open-closed)
Complementary adjectives (true-false) and Contradictory - The door is open = the door is not closed
Have rhetorical function. “It is meeting the public need, not private greed”
Expresses a 'part-of 'relation between the denotations of related nouns
Meronymy and holonymy - choose correct examples
Trunk and branch are meronyms of tree, tree is a holonym of trunk and branch
The house has a door, the door has a handle, the handle is a meronym of a house
A finger is a part of a hand, a hand has fingers. = fingers are meronym of a hand
To stroll is to walk in some manner. stroll is a meronym of a walk
Hyponymy and hyperonymy are also called ...
complementaries
subordinates and superordinates
partonymy and troponymy
What is absolute synonymy?
Lexemes with same meaning, one can be substituted for the other
Lexemes with similar meaning.
Almost indistinguishable difference in meaning of words.
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