Arrange each of the following groups of synonyms according to their degree of intensity, from the weakest to the strongest.

1) astonish, amaze, surprise

2) pardon, forgive, excuse

3) genius, ability, talent

4) sadness, grief, sorrow

5) pleasure, rapture, elight

What characteristic of antonyms does the following pair of sentences demonstrate?

A) How tall is his brother?

B) How short is his brother?

Arrange each of the following groups of synonyms according to their degree of intensity, from the weakest to the strongest.

1) astonish, amaze, surprise

2) pardon, forgive, excuse

3) genius, ability, talent

4) sadness, grief, sorrow

5) pleasure, rapture, elight

Comment on the following two sentences to illustrate the two sub-categories of affective meaning.

A) Knowledge of inequality has stimulated envy, ambition and greed.

B) One who is filled with ambition usually works hard.

What are the three major functions of context?

Give the definition of a stem and point out the stem(s) in the word “internationalist”.

Explain the difference between initialisms and acronyms with the example words VOA, AIDS, N-bomb, UFO, CORE, ID.

phrasal verbs

grammatical context

Synonyms

Compounding