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Being very amazed
Flabbergasted
The bachelorette party
Hen night
There are words denoting concepts that people … to: like freedom, love, …
Therefore, it is perfectly sensible for national governments to … to create policies that produce green jobs.
Synonym: aim for, having a lofty goal
aspire
It’s not a discovery, it’s a stumble into the past, …
Making fortunate discoveries by accident.
Serendipity
Synonyms:
- chatty
- talky
- talkative
- garrulous
- gabby
Antonyms:
- quiet
- silent
Loquacious
To move quickly, making a whistling sound.
To zing
Define: lexeme
A unit of lexical meaning.
For example: rain cats and dogs.
Define: lexicon
1) A collection of words that every speaker of a language has.
2) A stock of terms used in a particular profession, subject or style.
Define: semantic field + give a synonym
Definition: A large number of lexemes grouped together into fields.
Synonym: lexical field
Define: collocation
Two or more words that often go together, we use them all the time.
Which features identify an idiom?
1) The meaning can’t be deduced by examing the meaning of the consituent lexemes.
2) The expression is fixed, both grammatically and lexically.
Define: connotation
1) Connotations of a word = the emotional or positive-negative associations it implies.
Example: damp & moist
–> moist cake = appetising sound
–> damp cake = something’s gone wrong during cooking
Define: denotation
The meaning of a word or expression is what it denotes in the real world (always given in dictionary as defintion).
Define: meaning relationships
How does the meaning of one item relate to the meaning of another?
- synonym
- antonym
- hyponym (items of a general concept)
- superordinates (animal)
- translation
- co-hyponyms or coordinates (red, blue and brown are coordinates)
Define: word formation using unkindly
Words can be broken down into morphemes:
un = prefix
kind = root word
ly = suffix
This is word formation.
