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Chapter 2 : Word meaning
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The words affect and effect are easily confused because they are __________.
paronyms
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What is the term for words that have opposite meanings ?
antonyms
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What is the term for words with similar or nearly similar meanings ?
synonyms
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What do we call words that look or sound similar but differ in meaning and use ?
paronyms
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The word bank in “He sat by the bank” and “He works in a bank” shows what phenomenon?
homonymy
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The words color and colour illustrate what kind of variation?
lexical variants
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The pair buy – sell expresses which type of antonyms?
relational antonyms
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When one word has several related meanings, it is called_____
polysemy
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When two or more words have the same form but different meanings, the phenomenon is called__________
homonymy
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The words happy and joyful have similar meanings. What kind of word relation is this?
synonymy
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