Homonyms are words that have separate histories and meanings.
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- 中国大学MOOC: A ______ is a clever and amusing use of a word or phrase with two meanings, or of words with the same sound but different meanings.
- 46. The associations a word gets because of the meanings of words which tend to occur in its linguistic context are called ____________ _______ meanings.
- Use context clues as well as word part clues to guess the meanings of the italicized words in the following phrases and sentences, then match the correct chinese meanings.
- What is “synonyms”? A: They are words with general meanings. B: They are words with opposite meanings. C: They are words with similar meanings. D: They are words with odd meaning.
- If a language is not used by people, it is called a dead language. A dead language cannot live and grow______. A: The language is often spoken by people today. B: The language grows and changes with time. C: New words are created, and some old words have new meanings. D: Some words, or their meanings, may only be found in the old books.