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Semantic Relationships

The document discusses different types of semantic relations between words including synonymy, antonymy, homonymy, homographs, and homophones. Synonymy refers to words having the same or similar meaning, antonymy refers to words that are opposites, homonymy refers to words that sound or look the same but have different meanings, homographs look the same but sound different, and homophones sound the same but look different.

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Semantic Relationships

The document discusses different types of semantic relations between words including synonymy, antonymy, homonymy, homographs, and homophones. Synonymy refers to words having the same or similar meaning, antonymy refers to words that are opposites, homonymy refers to words that sound or look the same but have different meanings, homographs look the same but sound different, and homophones sound the same but look different.

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SEMANTIC RELATIONS BETWEEN WORDS

SYNONYMY

ANTONYMY

HOMONYMY

a word having a meaning that is the same as or very similar to the meaning of another word of the same language to leave-to depart

words belonging to the same grammatical category which are opposed in meaning to each other good-bad

words which have different meanings but are identical in sound and/or spelling light-adjective light noun

HOMOGRAPHS identical spelling, different sound:

HOMOPHONES Identical in sound, different in spelling

lead li:d lead led I vs eye

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