As far as the origins of the words are concerned, English words can be classified into ____ words and borrowed words.

If we say that Old English was a language of full endings, Middle English was one of ____ endings.

The morpheme is the ____ functioning unit in the composition of words.

“Bad-mouth” used as a verb can take the past tense marker e.g. “He bad-mouthed me.”This example shows a compound tends to play a single ____ role in a sentence.

In synonymous pairs such as "die — pass away", “ask — question”, each pair has the same ____ but different socio-cultural and stylistic values.

Synchronically, ____ is viewed as the coexistence of various meanings of the same word in a certain historical period of time, say, Modem English.

The word “garage” originally simply meant “any safe place”，but now means “a place for storing cars”. Such kind of change in word-meaning is called ____.

____ is very important for the understanding of word-meaning, for without it there is no way to determine the very sense of the word that the speaker intended to convey.

The idiom “cut and dried” is ____ in nature.

Three good general dictionaries are LDCE, CCELD and ____.