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According to the approach of words as carriers of ______, it can help us to predict which nouns make a sentence semantically odd.
meaning
Synonyms are two or more words with very closely related ______.
meanings
The approach of ______ roles of words can identify the roles of people and things involved in the action.
semantic
The words 'big' and 'small' are an example of ______.
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The semantic roles can be identified as ______, theme, instrument, experiencer, location, source, and goal.
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The sentence 'Write your names on the ______ sheets' uses the word 'answer' appropriately.
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The words 'alive' and 'dead' are an example of ______.
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Words can have relationships with each other, and in different languages, we often explain the meanings of words in terms of their ______.
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The pair 'big' and 'small' can be used in comparative constructions like '______ is bigger than a car'.
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If we’re asked the meaning of the word “strange”, for example, we might simply say it’s the same as ______.
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Synonyms may differ in terms of ______ vs. informal uses.
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This approach is used in the semantic description of language and treated as the analysis of ______ relations.
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Gradable antonyms are also called „_____________ pairs"
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The adjective „_____________” can’t be used to describe someone as “deader” or “more dead” than another
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The negative of one member of a ______________ antonym does imply the other member
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Antonyms of the type where “undress” is the opposite of “_____________” are called “reversives”
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The relationship when the meaning of one form is included in the meaning of another is called ______________
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The concept of “______________” involved in hyponymy is the idea that if an object is a rose, then it is necessarily a flower
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A ______ is a hyponym of flower.
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Looking at the diagram, we can say that 'horse is a hyponym of ______'.
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Two or more words that share the same superordinate term are called ______.
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'Dog' and 'horse' are ______ and the superordinate term is 'animal'.
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The relation of hyponymy captures the concept of '______ kind of'.
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Words such as 'punch', 'shoot', and 'stab' can all be treated as co-hyponyms of the superordinate term '______'.
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