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Lexicological Patterning Flashcards

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Synonymy

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Pairs or groups of words that have exact or highly similar meanings

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Lexical Choice

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The role of content words to create a text. These are often - synonym, antonymy, hyponym, and hypernymy.

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Antonymy

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groups of words that have different or opposite meanings

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Hyponymy

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A word that belongs to a larger category of terms

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Hypernymy

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A word that labels a category of terms

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