If polysemy viewed a word may retain its previous meaning or meanings and at the same time acquire one or several new ones.

# diachronically

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Synchronically polysemy is understood as ….. .

# the coexistence of various meanings of the same word at a certain historical period

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The words different languages which are similar or identical in lexical meaning are … .

# correlated words

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Words identical in sound –form but different in meaning are……

# homonyms

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Words homonymous in all their forms are… .

# full homonyms

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Lexical homonyms differ in

# lexical meaning

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Derivational affixes serve

# to form different words;

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Affixation, word-composition and conversion are

# principal and productive ways of forming new words;

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What is blending?

# telescoping, reduplication;

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What is shortening?

# a significant subtraction in which part of the original word is taken away

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Semantically morphemes are classified as

# root and affixational morphemes;

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What is an allomorph?

# a positional variant of a morpheme occurring in a specific environment;

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Lexicography deals with

# the theory and practice of compiling dictionaries;

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What are hybrids?

# words made up of elements derived from two or more different languages;

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Semasiology is the branch of Lexicology that deals with

# the study of word meaning;

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Lexical homonyms differ in

# lexical meaning

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Complete the proverb: “Every country has its … “

# customs

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Complete the proverb: “He who makes no …, makes nothing.”

# mistakes

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Complete the proverb: “Men may meet but … never”.

# mountains

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Complete the proverb: “In doing we …”

# learn

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Complete the proverb: “ It is never too late to …”

# learn

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Complete the proverb: “Knowledge is …”

# power

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Complete the proverb: “Live and …”

# learn

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Complete the proverb: “East or West…”

# home is best

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Complete the proverb: “Better late …”

# than neveR

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Complete the proverb: “Never put off till tomorrow …”

# what you can do today

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Complete the proverb: “The devil is not so black …”

# as he is painted

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Complete the proverb: “An English man’s home (or house) …”

# is his castle

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Complete the proverb: “When the cat’s away, the … … will play”

# mice

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Complete the proverb: “Everybody’ s business is … business”

# nobody’ s

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Complete the proverb: “Every … praises his own broth”.

# cook

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Complete the proverb: “Little strokes fell great …”

# oaks

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Complete the proverb: “Promise little, but … much”

# do

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Complete the proverb: “Among the blind the one-eyed man is …”

# king

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Complete the proverb: “Every day is not …”

# Sunday

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Complete the proverb: “A good name is better than …”

# riches

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Complete the proverb: “Honesty is the best …”

# policy

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Complete the proverb: “Life is made up of …”

# little things

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Complete the proverb: “No news … news”

# good

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Complete the proverb: “The morning sun never lasts a …”

# day

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Complete the proverb: “While there is life there is …”

# hope

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Comlete the proverb: “Don’t count your… before they are hatched”

# chickens

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Complete the proverb: “Don’t swap … when crossing a stream”

# horses

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Complete the proverb: “Don’t teach your … to suck eggs”.

# grandmother

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Complete the proverb: “Every … has a puddle”

# path

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Complete the proverb: ”If a … bray at you, don’t bray at him”.

# donkey

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Complete the proverb: “Never try to … what nobody doubts”.

# prove

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Complete the proverb: “Of two … choose the lesser”.

# evils

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Complete the proverb : “Practice what you …”

# preach

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Complete the proverb: “ … was not built in a day”

# Rome

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Complete the proverb: ”Those who live in ... houses should not throw stones”

# glass

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Complete the proverb: “There is a ... in every flock”

# black sheep

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Complete the proverb: “... wife must (or should) be above suspicion”

# Caesar’ s

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Complete the proverb: “An ... home ( or house) is his castle”

# Englishman’ s

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Complete the proverb: “Gifts from ... are dangerous”

# enemies

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Complete the proverb: “... is neither bought nor sold”

# love

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Complete the proverb: “Marriages are made …”

# in heaven

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Complete the proverb: “All roads lead to …”

# Rome

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Give a homophone to ‘suite’

# sweet

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Give a homophone to ‘sow’

# so

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Define the type of composition in the word ‘sunflower’

# neutral

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Define the type of composition in the word ‘handicraft’

# morphological

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Define the type of composition in the word ‘son-in-law

# syntactic

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The smallest meaningful language unit

# morpheme

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The main way of enriching vocabulary

# word-building

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One of the most productive ways of word-building

# affixation

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Define the origin of the word ‘opera’

# Latin

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Define the original of the word ‘steppe’

# Russian

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Homophones are…

# words of the same sound form but of different spelling and meaning

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Complete the simile ‘as fast as…’

# lightning

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Complete the simile ‘ as light as …’

# feather

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Ancient or obselete word, or style, or idiom gone out of current use

# Archaism

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Colloquial style

# Spoken English

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A figure of speech in which an inoffensive word or expression is supstituted for an unpleasant

# Euphemesm

# Slang

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The style of language of every day life which answers the needs of communication

# Colloquial

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Phraseology studies

# free word-combinations and phraseological units

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Shortening is

# a significant subtraction of a word

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Which of the given words stand for the American variant of the word flat

# apartment

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What is the meaning of the underlined parts of words monolingual,monosyllable, monologue

# one

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Which of the following words are international

# coffee, mango, sputnik, radio

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Phraseology studies

# free word-combinations and phraseological units

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Shortening is

# a significant subtraction of a word

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Which of the given words stand for the American variant of the word flat

# apartment

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What is the meaning of the underlined parts of words monolingual,monosyllable, monologue

# one

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Which of the following words are international

# coffee, mango, sputnik, radio

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Which of the following words is the British variant of the American fall

# autumn

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The word TV is a case of

# abbreviation

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Has been in the following sentence “She had to be satisfied with the role of a has been” is the result of

# conversion

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What is motivation

# the connection between the structural pattern of the word and its meaning

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What are antonyms

# words different in sound and graphic form and characterized by semantic polarity of denotational meaning

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Which of the following words are homonyms proper

# bank (n) – bank (n)

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A list of words in which the entry words are arranged in alphabetical order starting with their final letters are

# reverse dictionaries

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Which of the following lines contains only form words

# from, oh!, am

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Which of the following homonyms are partial

# match (n) – match (v)

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Conversives are

# antonyms

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Complete the idiom “like as…” using one of the following words

# peas

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Now or never is

# phraseological repetition

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Which of the following suffixes are of Greek origin

# -ist, - ism, - ite

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The difference between the British and American English is noticeable in the field of

# in all fields of the language system

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pot cheers is a word from

# New York city dialect

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Semantically morphemes are classified as

# root and affixational morphemes

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Lexicography deals with

# the theory and practice of compiling dictionaries

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The type of word-building used in the following words ping-pong, riff-raff, chit-chat is

# compounding

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Stylistic synonyms are

# two words having the same denotational meaning but differing in stylistic connotation

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Head of cabbage is

# a metaphor

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Synonyms for the word to hope is

# to expect, to look forward, to anticipate

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Taboo is the main cause of such a linguistic phenomenon as a (an)

# euphemism

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Which of the following sound-imitative words are interjections

# bang!, bush!, pooh!

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External meaning

# morphological structure

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The stem of root or morpheme words contains

# one free morpheme

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Prefixes mis-, mal-, pseudo- are

# perjorative

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According to the structure the words: fridge, pub, tech, USA, exam are

# shortened

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The underlined words in the following sentences: “How often do you milk the cows?”, “Restaurants in all large cities have ups and downs.” “He began to nose about like an old bloodhound.” are cases of

# conversion

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The words TV, T.B. are cases of

# abbreviation

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What kind of clipping in the word “math”

# final clipping

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Metonymy is based on

# contiguity of meaning

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Check for the case of a hyperbole in the following

# thousand pardons

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Dictionaries of toponyms are

# special dictionaries

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Which of the following line has words belonging to terminology

# telegraph, antibiotic, radar, metaphor

# lovely, beautiful, colorful, handsome

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The synonymic dominant in series of leave, depart, quit, retire, clear out is

# leave

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A proverb is

# a saying expressing some well-known truth

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Complete the following idiom as sly as

# a fox

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Hybrids are

# words made up of affixes from two or more different languages

# idiomatic compounds

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Lass, Kirk are examples of

# vulgarism

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Structural morphemes fall into

# free, semi-free, bound, semi-bound, morphemes

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Friend is a

# free morpheme

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Sound imitation is

# onomatopeia

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What is the denotational meaning

# the component of the lexical meaning which makes communication possible

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Euphemism is

# the substitution of unpleasant words by mild ones

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Metaphor is a transfer of name based on

# the association of similarity

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Jargonisms are

# words used within a particular social group and bearing a secret and cryptic character

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Words jersey, pullover are

# international words

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Which of the following statements is the distinctive feature of proverbs

# proverbs function as independent units of communication

# proverbs are neither parts of statement, nor do they stand for the whole statement

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Which of these proverbs expresses best the idea of the following situation “Very soon after his father’s death Mike’s mother died and he became an orphan.”. The words “pipe of peace”, “pale face” were borrowed from

# Indian language

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The words pyjamas, khaki, mango, bungalow which became international come from

# India

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What is polyglot?

# multilingual dictionary

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The root of the word is

# the basic part of a word which affixes are added

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Affixation, word-composition and conversion are

# principle and productive ways of forming new words

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Which of the following parts of words has the verb derived from the noun

# a monkey – to monkey

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Which of the following is a minor way of word-formation

# back-formation

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The branch of lexicology that is devoted to the study of meaning is known as ….

Semasiology

# Phraseology

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Semasiology studies the change in which words under go?

# meaning

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Concept is ….

# a category of human cognition.

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Meaning comprises ….

# the interrelation of linguistic signs with categories and phenomena outside the scope of language

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The functional approach maintains that the meaning of a linguistic unit may be studied through …..

# its relation to other linguistic units

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Word meaning is ……

# homogeneous

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The component of meaning recurrent in identical sets of individual forms of different words is …..

# grammatical meaning

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The component of meaning proper to the word as a linguistic unit is…..

# lexical meaning

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The component of the lexical meaning which makes communication possible is …….

# denotational meaning

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One of the objective semantic features proper to words as linguistic unit and forms part of the connotational component of meaning. It is…

# emotive charge

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The smallest two-facet language unit possessing path sound-form and meaning is…. .

# the morpheme

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The semantic component that serves to distinguish one word from all others containing identical morphemes is ….

# differential meaning

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The main criterion in morphological motivation is …. .

# relationship between morphemes

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Morphological motivation is ….. # relative

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A direct connection between the phonetically structure of the word and its meaning is …. .

# phonetical motivation

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The relationship between the central and the coexisting meaning of a word is … .

# semantic motivation

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Change of meaning is effected through association between …… .

# the existing meaning and the new

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The factors causing semantic changes may be subdivided into …. .

# extra –linguistic and linguistic

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Monosemantic word are word having

# one meaning

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