______ is the process of forming new words by joining the initial letters of names of social and political organizations or special noun phrases and technical terms.

That part of the word-meaning, which is suggested by the words before or after the word in discussion, is known as ______meaning.

Words of language can be classified into semantically related sets or ______.

Observation shows that it is much more common for word meanings to change in denotation from ______ to pejorative than it is for them to go the other way.

Based on the ______context, we can determine the meaning of "do fish " as "cook".

"White elephant" is an idiom ______in nature.

Webster's New Dictionary of Synonyms is a （n） ______dictionary.

semantic change

compounding

radiation