The vocabulary of a language is in constant change; old items drop out, new items come in, and as the new replace the old, so the internal ____of the whole set alter.

The attitudes of classes have also made inroads into lexical meaning in the case of elevation or____.

The sentence “I like Mary better than Jean.” will lead to____.

The fixity of idioms depends on the____.

Encyclopedic dictionaries can be further divided into ____and encyclopedic dictionaries.

borrowed words

conversion

motivation

narrowing

replacement of idioms