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4. guide: a) a person who shows others the way, especially a
person employed to point out interesting sights on the jour-
ney or visit; b) a thing that helps somebody, e.g. to form an
opinion, make a decision or calculate something; c) a per-
son who directs or influences somebody’s behaviour or gives
somebody advice; d) a book for travellers or tourists, giving
information about a place.
5. Store: a) a quantity or supply of something kept for use as
needed; b) a large collection or amount; c) a shop; d) [pl]
goods, etc of a particular type, or for a special purpose; 5) a
device in a computer for storing information.
exeRCIse 12.
Find the markers and distinguishers for the following pairs of the
words.
Commuter – traveller, ear – eye, ellipse – rhombus, fog – smog,
fusion – mixture, kneel – squat, pen – pencil, pitch – court, red
– vermillion, referee – judge, sweater – cardigan.
exeRCIse 13.
Classify the following words into semantic fields comprising the
general and the particular. Add more words to these semantic
fields.
Abbey, animal, aubergine, broccoli, building, bull, buffalo, cathe-
dral, cauliflower, cheetah, courgette, cucumber, donkey, ewe,
hippopotamus, gazelle, lettuce, leopard, mansion, monastery,
mule, onion, radish, skyscraper, vegetable, wigwam.
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exeRCIse 14.
The following sentences contain the words from the following
semantic fields: a) arts; b) children; c) health; d) wisdom; e) learn-
ing; f) politics; j) work. Find them in the sentences.
1. No one can explain how the notes of a Mozart melody pro-
duce their essential effects. If you do not feel it, no one can
be reasoning make you feel (J.R.).
2. There is no finer investment for any community than putting
milk into babies (W.C.).
3. He that spares his rod hates his son: but he that loves him
chastens (B.).
4. The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet
and Doctor Merryman (J.S.).
5. The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature
which distinguishes men from animals (W.O.).
6. Before God we are all equally wise – equally foolish (A.E.).
7. Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease (H.).
8. There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance (S.).
9. Governments never learn. Only people learn (M.F.).
10. A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influ-
ence stops (H.A.).
exeRCIse 15.
Classify the following words into logical groups going from
hyperonym to hyponym.
Animal, beetroot, birch, buffalo, building, bulldog, bungalow,
bush, cabbage, carnation, collie, comedy, cottage, cow, dahlia,
dandelion, dog, drama, fiction, file, flower, goat, grass, husky,
The .word .and .its .characteristics . .Componential .analysis . .Semantic .field
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in-tray, linden, maple, mansion, marker, novel, oak, onion, pin,
plant, poodle, scotch, stationery, stapler, story, tulip, vegetable,
vertebrate, villa.
exeRCIse 16.
Draw tree-charts to illustrate the hyponymy relations. Give hypo-
nyms to the following hyperonyms.
Container, crockery, vegetable, bird, tree, dog, flower, vehicle,
exeRCIse 17.
Propose a meronymy tree to illustrate the meronymy relations.
Give meronyms to the following superordinates.
Bicycle, book, cat, flower, knife, shirt.
exeRCIse 18.
Give the hyperonyms for the following hyponymic groups. Pro-
vide the Lithuanian equivalents for hyponyms.
1. Bream, carp, catfish, cod, eel, herring, jellyfish, pike, piranha,
salmon, sole, starfish, swordfish, trout, tune.
2. Blackbird, canary, crane, crow, eagle, falcon, humming bird,
lark, ostrich, oriole, owl, peacock, penguin, raven, seagull,
sparrow, woodpecker.
3. Arrow, canon, dagger, knuckleduster, missile, pike, rifle,
sword, truncheon.
4. Camomile, carnation, daffodil, forget-me-not, fox glove,
poppy, rose, tulip.
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MeAnInG oF tHe WoRD. PoLYseMY
oF tHe WoRD. tYPes oF MeAnInGs.
CHAnGe oF MeAnInG. Context
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exeRCIse 19.
Specify grammatical and lexical meaning of the words in bold.
1. Everything was revealed the other day when I was by chance
walking through Covent Garden.
2. “i called you”, he whispered in a softer voice. “But your boys
denied my call”.
3. She takes my hand and stands up in front of me.
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