词汇学期末考试.docxVIP

— PAGE \* Arabic 1 — 词汇学期末考试 词汇学  1. In what aspects do synonymous words differ? Give examples to illustrate each aspect.  Firstly, synonymous words mean two or more than two words which are of the same language and grammatical category that have the same essential or general meaning in denotation but may differ in connotative meaning. For example: see, look, watch  Secondly, there are mainly two kinds of synonyms.  Complete synonyms (absolute/ perfect synonyms): Complete synonyms mean synonymous words that are identical in every aspect, no matter in denotation or connotation. For example: word building and word formation; compounding and composition. However, complete synonyms are very rare.  Relative synonyms (partial synonyms): words are similar or nearly the same in denotation, but embrace other different connotative meanings. Relative synonyms mainly differ in the following three connotations.  1: In degree of a given quality or in shades of meaning. A. In degree of a given quality, for example, in different degrees of intensity: small, tiny, diminutive, minute, microscope. These are synonyms, but they denote different degrees of smallness. B. IN shades of meaning, for example: refuse, reject, and decline. In shades of meaning, generally speaking, decline, reject, refuse  2. In affective meaning and stylistic meaning. A. Some words have emotional coloring but some have not. Take small and little for example, both mean not big, not old. However, when we associate emotion with the designation, we will say little boy instead of small boy, for the word small has no affective meaning. B. In stylistic meaning。In this case, synonyms refer to the same thing but belong to different stylistic layers, which means some words of the same synonyms are used at a certain situation. For example: man, fellow, bird, chap, guy. This is a group of synonyms with the same denotative meaning but with different stylistic layers.  3.In collocation