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Reviving archaic words also contributes to the growth of English vocabulary. For instance, “loan”, which was prevalent in the thirteenth century, was replaced by “ ( ) ” in American English.
Readers will usually find in a general dictionary the following areas of information of a word EXCEPT ( ) .
Which of the following is NOT one of the rhetoric characteristics of idioms in general?( )
The idiom “bed of dust” is a( ) as far as figures of speech are concerned.
The synonymous pair of “ask-question” has the same( ).
In the sentence “East or west, home is best”, “home” has its ( ) meaning of “family, safety, love”, etc.
The word “dorm” is formed by( )clipping.
The word “reading-lamp” is ( ) motivated.
Grammarians insist that a word be a ( ) form that can function in a sentence.
Prefixes generally do not change the ( ) of the stem.
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