| Theories in semantics | Connotative Semantic | Denotative Semantic | Euphemisms | Paronyms |
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What is Formal Semantics?
A highly formalized theory of natural language semantics.
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What is Confident
Cocky
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What is Home?
A place where one lives.
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What is Dead?
Passed away.
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What is Except?
Accept
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What is Truth-conditional semantics?
Natural language sentence with a meta-language description of the conditions under which it is
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What is Relaxed?
Lazy
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What is Player
He’s a womanizer
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What is Firing employees?
Downsizing personnel
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What is Collusion
Collision
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What is Conceptual semantics?
This theory is an effort to explain properties of argument structure.
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What is challenging
Difficult
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What is Pushy
Loud-Mouthed and Irritating Person
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What is Shit?
Shoot
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What is Affect?
Effect
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What is Lexical semantics?
A linguistic theory that investigates word meaning.
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What is Dominant
Bossy
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What is Politician
A person who holds a political office.
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What is Bankrupt?
Fiscal Underachiever
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What is Industrious?
Industrial
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What is Computational semantics?
Focused on the processing of linguistic meaning.
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What is Persevering
Stubborn
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What is Corruption
A Cohesion of Departmental Policies
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What is Torture?
Enhanced interrogation methods.
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What is Prescribe?
Proscribe
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