The formation of new words by combining parts of two words or a word plus a part of another word is called ______.
A. conversion
B. blending
C. compounding
D. clipping
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Which of the following is NOT true about linguistic dictionaries______
A. They aim at defining words and explaining their usages in the language.
B. They usually cover such areas as spelling, pronunciation, meaning, grammatical function, usage and etymology, etc.
C. They can be monolingual and bilingual.
D. They provide encyclopaedic information concerning each headword.
Which of the following rhetorical features can be seen in the idiom "scream and shout"______
A. Rhyme.
B. Reiteration.
C. Juxtaposition.
D. Synecdoche.
Unlike radiation where each of the derived meanings is directly connected to the primary meaning, ______ describes a process where each of the later meaning is related only to the preceding one like chains.
A. back-formation
B. concatenation
C. association
D. extension
Some words can have two different types of antonyms at the same time, one being ______ and the other opposite.
A. negative
B. positive
C. protective
D. appreciative