Apart from their conceptual meanings, many words have stylistic features, which make them appropriate for different contexts. T his stylistic difference is especially true of synonyms. it is observed that there are few words which have both the same conceptual meaning and stylisti...
4.___is a pair of emotive synonyms. A.―Dad‖ and ―father‖ B.―Flat‖ and ―apartment‖ B. C.―Mean‖ and ―frugal‖ D.―charge‖ and ―accuse‖ 5.The word ―language‖is sometimes used to refer to the whole of a person’s language.This is called___. A.scientific...
“ win ” and “ gain the upper ,hand“hesitate” ” and “ be in two minds ” are two pairs of synonyms resulting from ___. A. coincidence with idiomatic expressions B. figurative euphemistic use of words. C. dialects and regional English D. borrowing The meanings of a word may be ...
Pleco has different meanings for characters/ words. 惫 bèi CC : exhausted HZ : exhausted; fatigued UNI : tired, weary, fatigued Here exhausted, tired, fatigued, weary all have same meaning. So I choose ‘exhausted’ as meaning. But if I try to translate
T 3. “Empty and vacant”are synonyms mainly different in application. T 4. “Male/female, present/absent”are contrary terms. T 1. Meaning lives in context and the context defines meaning. F 2. We can always tell the meaning of a word before it is used. T 3. Without context, ...
A. A word can be formed by two free morphemes .A word can be formed by any two affixes. 3. The symbolic connection of a word to a particular thing is almost always arbitrary . 4. In different languages, the same concepts can be represented by differ...
Homographs are words identical in form but different in pronunciation.( ) 75. Homonyms come mainly from borrowingthe most important source.( ) 76. Middle English lasted for 22、more than four hundred years.( ) 77. Borrowing has brought most synonyms to the English language.( ) 78. The ...
T 3. “Empty and vacant”are synonyms mainly different in application. T 4. “Male/female, present/absent”are contrary terms. T 1. Meaning lives in context and the context defines meaning. F 2. We can always tell the meaning of a word before it is used. T 3. Without context, there...
an article that appeared in 1894, Cooke saw Emerson in a somewhat different light. Emerson was a mystic all right, but a bit too intellectual. "Had Emerson been more emotional, lived truly the life of the heart, he would have been the greatest of the Mystics" (Cooke 1894, p. 75). ...