Words

Question 1

Words that can undo each other

Answer 1

Reversed antonym; Enter - exit

Question 2

Similar words

Answer 2

Synonymy; reply - answer

Question 3

Word with opposite meaning

Answer 3

Antonyms; dead and alive

Question 4

One word is more specific than the other

Answer 4

Hyponymy; rose is a hyponymy for flower

Question 5

The best or most typical example of a category

Answer 5

Prototype; a sparrow as a prototype for the category bird

Question 6

Words that sound the same but have different meanings/spellings

Answer 6

Homophones; pair, pear

Question 7

Words that have the same spelling and pronunciation but different meanings

Answer 7

Homonyms; bat (sports) and bat (sports)

Question 8

A single word having multiple related meanings

Answer 8

Polysemy; head (company head) or head (of a person)

Question 9

A figure of speech where one word is used to represent something closely related to it

Answer 9

Metonymy; the White House to mean US government

Question 10

Collocations in linguistics

Answer 10

Make a decision, to check in, to make up

Question 11

A word to refer back to something previously mentioned

Answer 11

Anaphora; John lost his keys and he can’t find them

Question 12

Words and phrases which require information to understand their meaning because they point to people and places and times

Answer 12

Deixis; this, now, there, here

Question 13

Words and phrases that can often soften the force of a meaning

Answer 13

Hedges: sort of, kind of, maybe

Question 14

Sort of, kind of, maybe

Answer 14

Hedges

Question 15

Deixis

Answer 15

This, that, here, there, now

Question 16

Anaphora

Answer 16

A word to refer back to something previously mentioned; John lost his keys and he can’t find them.

Question 17

Metonymy

Answer 17

A figure of speech where one word is used to represent something closely related to it (White House; US government).

Question 18

Polysemy

Answer 18

A single word having multiple related meanings (head)

Question 19

Homonyms

Answer 19

Words that have the same spelling and pronunciation but different meanings (bat)

Question 20

Homophones

Answer 20

Words that sound the same but have different meanings/spellings (pair and pear)

Question 21

Prototype

Answer 21

The best or most typical example of a category (a sparrow as a prototype for the category bird)

Question 22

Hyponymy

Answer 22

One word is more specific than another (rose is a hyponymy of flower)

Question 23

Reversible antonym

Answer 23

They describe actions that undo each other (enter, exit)

Question 24

Antonyms

Answer 24

Opposite meanings (alive, dead)