Degradation can be illustrated by the following example

 Homophones are often employed to create puns for desired effects of:

The four major modes of semantic change are _____.

 The use of one name for that of another associated with it is rhetorically called _____. 

Idioms adjectival in nature function as _____. 

 Grammatical context refers to _____ in which a word is used.

In the idiom 'in good feather', we change 'good' into 'high, full' without changing meaning.

This change of constituent is known as _____ .

The word "laconic" is _____. 

 CCELD is distinctive for its _____. 

Which of the following words is NOT formed through clipping?

.Old English has a vocabulary of about _____ words.

 _____ are bound morphemes because they cannot be used as separate words. 

Besides French words, English also absorbed as many as 2,500 words of _____ in the Middle English period.

 A word is a symbol that _____ .

Some words in the basic word stock are said to be stable because they _____.

 The same idiom may show _____ differences when it is used in different meanings including affective meaning.

LDCE is a _____ dictionary.

Antonyms are classified on the basis of _____.

 The opposite of semantic elevation in meaning change is called _____.

 Pronouns and numerals enjoy nation-wide use and stability, but have limited _____.

 specialized dictionary

collocative meaning

transfer

morpheme

old English

What's the fundamental difference between radiation and concatenation? Illustrate your points.

 What is dismembering?

 What is collocative meaning? Give one example to illustrate your point.

The 'pen' is mightier than the 'sword'.

Explain what 'pen' and 'sword' mean respectively using the theory of motivation.

 Study the following sentence, paying special attention to the words in italics. If you find anything wrong, please explain

why and then improve the sentence.(100 words)

The police were ordered to stop drinking about midnight.