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The word “bank” can mean both “a financial institution” and “the side of a river”. Which term describes this?

• Homophone

• Synonym

• Homonym

• Antonym

The American word “apartment” and the British word “flat” are examples of what?

• Collocation

• Idiom

• Variety of English

• Word family

The dictionary definition of the word “rose” as “a type of flower” is called what?

• Figurative meaning

• Denotative meaning

• Homonym

• Antonym

In “She has a heart of gold”, the meaning is symbolic, not literal. Which term applies?

• Figurative meaning

• Denotative meaning

• Collocation

• False friend

Understanding a word by looking at the sentence around it is using what?

• Lexical set

• Context

• Affixation

• Homophone

The group of letters “un-” in “unhappy” is an example of what?

• Suffix

• Prefix

• Homophone

• Compound noun

The ending “-ness” in “happiness” is an example of what?

• Prefix

• Suffix

• Collocation

• Antonym

The process of adding affixes like “-er” or “un-” to base words is called what?

• Word-building

• Context

• Affixation

• Synonym

The word “toothpaste” is an example of what?

• Collocation

• Compound noun

• Idiom

• Word family

The phrase “make a decision” is an example of what?

• Collocation

• Idiom

• Homophone

• Antonym