Comment on the following groups of words in terms of types of antonyms: contradictory terms, contrary terms, relative terms.“dead—alive”, “young—old”, “employer—employee”

A word is a ______ free form of a language that has a given sound and meaning and syntactic function.

In Old English period, the introduction of Christianity had a great impact on the English vocabulary. It brought many new ideas and customs, and also many ______ terms such as “candle, altar, amen”.

A ______ is the basic form of a word which cannot be further analyzed without total loss of identity.

“Exam” is the shortened form of “examination” by back clipping. Then “quake” is used to mean “earthquake” by ______ clipping.

Motivation accounts for the connection between the linguistic symbol and its ______．

From the ______ point of view, polysemy is viewed as the coexistence of various meanings of the same word in a certain historical period of time.

The process by which a word of wide meaning acquires a specialized sense is called ______ of meaning.

The context clue used in the sentence “Many United Nations’ employe.es are polyglots. Ms. Mary, for example, speaks five languages” is ______．

The idiom “by twos and threes” cannot be turned into “by threes and twos”. It shows that unlike free phrases, the structure of an idiom is to a large extent ______．