The specialized vocabularies by which members of particular arts, sciences, trades and professions communicate among themselves are referred to as ________.

In modern times, the most important way ofvocabulary expansion is ______of new words by means of word-formation.

In the words or expressions desks, the children’s library, happiest, -s, -s, -est are called ______affixes.

The prefixes in words like disobey, injustice, immature, unfair are ______prefixes.

The synonymous pair like die-pass away has the same______ but different socio-cultural and stylistic values.

Absolute synonyms are words which are identical in meaning in all aspects, i.e. both in grammatical meaning and_______meaning.

Churl, hussy, wench, villain were originally neutral in color have all down-graded as "ill-mannered or bad people". This example shows that the attitudes of _______have also made inroads into lexical meaning in the case of degradation.

In some cases, the meanings of a word may be influenced by the structure in which it occurs. This is what we call _______context.

All sentence idioms are complete sentences. They are mainly proverbs and _______, including colloquialisms and catchphrases.

For beginners and elementary learners, a ______ dictionary is essential as theydo not know enough ofthe target language to understand fully a monolingual dictionary.