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英语词汇学
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Which of the following statements is NOT true?
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Bow meaning“bending the head as a greeting”and bow meaning“the device used for shooting arrows”are
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From the diachronic point of view, the following are the derived meanings of the word face EXCEPT “__________“
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The word“________”is the antonym of the word dull in the sentence She became dull and silent during the last part of the journey.
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The word manuscript used to mean “handwriting”,but now it means “any author's writing whether written by hand or typed with a typewriter or a word-processor”. This is an example of____of meaning.
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The original meaning of the word nice was “ignorant”,then changed to “foolish”,but now it has been_________ to mean“delightful!”.
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The meaning of the word computer changed from“a person who computes”to “anelectronic machine”, which indicates that____ can account for the change of word meaning.
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When a word with multiple meanings is used in inadequate context,it creates __.
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The_____context may affect the meaning of words, as is shown in the example where landlord in Chinese culture used to be associated with exploitation while it commonly means“someone who rents house for money”in western countries.
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What context clue is used in the sentence Their greatest fear was of a conflagration,since fire would destroy their flimsy wooden settlement before help could arrive?