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Lexis And Semantics Flashcards

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Lexis

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Study of vocabulary

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Etymology

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Study of the origin

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Lexical item

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Word

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Semantics

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Words and their meanings

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Semantic field

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Classification of words from the same domain

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Synonymy

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Lexical items with similar meaning

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Antonymy

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Lexical items with opposite meanings

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Hyponymy

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The hierarchy structure that exists between lexical items

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Neologisms

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Newly coined word

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To coin

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Invent a new word

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Portmanteau

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Blending two words together to make a new words

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Acronym

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Abbreviation of a phrase into letters

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Academie Francaise

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French council that protects the French language

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Figurative language

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Non-literal word

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Euphemisms

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A word or phrase to make something less offensive

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Idioms

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A word or phrase used to say something illiterally

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Dysphemisms

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A derogatory or unpleasant term

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Linguistic taboo

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Any element of bearing that reads impolite

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Borrowed term

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A word taken from another language

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Borrowed term

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A word taken from another language

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Word classes

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A word consists of lexical items with similar functions

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Noun

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People, places, things, concepts

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Proper nouns

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Something specific

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Collective noun

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Group of nouns

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Countable nouns

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Singular or plural (cats or dogs)

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Uncountable nouns

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Impossible to count

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Mental verb

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Thoughts and ideas

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Verbal verb

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Speaking verb

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Material verbs

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Physical Actions (build)

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Dynamic verbs

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Activity related in an event (consider, guess)

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Stative verbs

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Emotions and preferences (like, dislike)

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Auxiliary

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Helping verb

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Adjectives

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Describes or modifies a noun

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Comparative

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Comparing two or more things (more, smaller)

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Superlative

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The most or least of something

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Adverbs

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Modify or describe a verb

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Manner adverb

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Describe an activity (quickly, elegantly)

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Time Adverb

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Describes or modifies when an action occurs (today)

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Place adverb

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Tell us where something is happening
(here, there)

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Frequency adverb

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How often something occurs
(sometimes)

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Degree adverb

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To depict the degree or intensity of
(Harshly, lightly)

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Conjunctive

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Transition between clauses
(Furthermore)

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Determiners

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Come before a noun to explain which noun is referred to
(the, my, all)

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Co-ordinating Conjunctions

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Connects words, phrases or clauses of the same kind (and)

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Subordinating conjunction

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Only connects a dependent clause to an independent (although)

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Interjection

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Formal writing to show sudden emotion

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Article

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Identifies a noun being specific or unspecific
(A)

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Quantifies

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How many of something (only)

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Antecedent noun

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One or more words that establish the meaning of a pronoun
(Names of things)

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Personal pronouns

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Change based on the grammatical person
(I/me, she/her, they/them)

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Relative pronouns

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Connect clauses to independent clauses
(That,what)

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Who

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Is for the subject of a sentence or clause

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Whom

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Is for the object of a verb and preposition

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Demonstrative pronouns

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Point directly to an antecedent or replace one
(This, these, that, those)

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Indefinite pronoun

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Refers generally to a person or a thing that isn’t present
(One, other, none)

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Reflexive pronouns

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Personal pronouns ending in ‘-self’ or ‘-selves’
(Myself, yourself, themselves, itself)

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Intensive pronouns

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Adds emphasis
noun followed by a reflexive

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Possessive pronoun

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Shows ownership
(Mine, your, our)

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Possessive pronoun

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Shows ownership
(Mine, your, our)

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Interrogative pronoun

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Asks a question
(Who, whose, whom, what, which)

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Interrogative pronoun

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Asks a question
(Who, whose, whom, what, which)

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Reciprocal pronoun

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Describes a mutual relationship between two or more elements
(each other and one another)

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Reciprocal pronoun

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Describes a mutual relationship between two or more elements
(each other and one another)

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Distributive pronoun

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Refer to nouns as individual elements as larger groups
(Either, each, neither, any, none)

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Antonymy

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Lexical items with opposite meanings

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Synonymy

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lexical items with similar meaning

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Euphemism

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a word or phrase to make something less offensive

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Neologism

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a newly coined word\ phrase

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Idiom

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A non-literal word or phrase

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FANBOYS - Co-ordinating conjunctions

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For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, so

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Mental verb

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verbs to do with the mind (wishing/ believing)

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Verbal verb

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speaking verb (Speaking, whispering)

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Relationship verb

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relationship between two objects

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MAterial verb

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actions (washed)

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Comparative

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compares two or more things

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superlative

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The most or least of something

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