Which of the following is NOT usually included in the usage section of a dictionary?

The word antecedent can be broken down into ______.

Ambiguity often arises due to ______, as is shown in the sentence “He is a hard business.”

Which of the following is the new word resulting from rapid growth of science and technology in the English vocabulary?

The word disease once meant discomfort, but now means illness. This is an example of ______ of word-meaning.

Words like dear that means a loved person and deer that means a kind of animal are called ______.

That trade union means differently in western countries and in China shows that ______ context has some effect on the meaning of words.

Of the following words, the word “______” does NOT have a derivational prefix.

The idiom Jack of all trades means the same as Jack of all trades and master of none. This example shows idioms may vary by means of ______.

The associated transfer of meaning is often due to ______ factors, as is shown in such words as angel, martyr and paradise, whose meanings are elevated because of the influence of Christianity.