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Chapter 2 : Word meaning

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  • The words affect and effect are easily confused because they are __________.
    paronyms
  • What is the term for words that have opposite meanings ?
    antonyms
  • What is the term for words with similar or nearly similar meanings ?
    synonyms
  • What do we call words that look or sound similar but differ in meaning and use ?
    paronyms
  • The word bank in “He sat by the bank” and “He works in a bank” shows what phenomenon?
    homonymy
  • The words color and colour illustrate what kind of variation?
    lexical variants
  • The pair buy – sell expresses which type of antonyms?
    relational antonyms
  • When one word has several related meanings, it is called_____
    polysemy
  • When two or more words have the same form but different meanings, the phenomenon is called__________
    homonymy
  • The words happy and joyful have similar meanings. What kind of word relation is this?
    synonymy