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Ex.W3. Semantic Relationships

This document identifies semantic relationships between 107 word pairs. It provides the semantic relationship type for each pair, such as binary antonymy, homonymy, hyponymy, polysemy, synonymy, relational antonymy, gradable antonymy, and homophony. The semantic relationship types reflect how the meanings of the words in each pair are related, such as being opposites, having similar but distinct meanings, one being a type of the other, or sounding the same but having different meanings.

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Ex.W3. Semantic Relationships

This document identifies semantic relationships between 107 word pairs. It provides the semantic relationship type for each pair, such as binary antonymy, homonymy, hyponymy, polysemy, synonymy, relational antonymy, gradable antonymy, and homophony. The semantic relationship types reflect how the meanings of the words in each pair are related, such as being opposites, having similar but distinct meanings, one being a type of the other, or sounding the same but having different meanings.

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SEMANTIC RELATIONSHIP EXERCISE

Identify the semantic relationship between the words in the following pairs

1. honest – dishonest: BINARY ANTONYMY


2. night – knight: HOMOPHONY
3. wider – narrower: RELATIONAL ANTONYMY
4. clothes – jeans: HYPONYMY
5. refuse – decline: SYNONYMY
6. long ( a verb which means “yearn”) – long (not short): HOMONYMY
7. guard (person who guards, sentinel) – guard (solid protective shield): POLYSEMY
8. animal – foal: HYPONYMY
9. crop (harvest) – crop (handle of a riding whip): HYPONYMY
10. sight – site: HOMOPHONY
11. fix – repair: SYNONYMY
12. luggage – suitcase: HYPONYMY
13. flat (an apartment) – flat (smooth and level): HOMONYMY
14. purchase – buy: SYNONYMY
15. tail (of a coat) – tail (of an animal): POLYSEMY
16. row (a quarrel) – row (a line of things or people): HOMOGRAPHY
17. enormous – huge: SYNONYMY
18. sawed – sword: HOMOPHONY
19. lead (as in Does this road lead to town?) – lead (as in Lead is a heavy metal.):
HOMOGRAPHY
20. before – after: RELATIONAL ANTONYMY
21. sell – cell: HOMOPHONY
22. wound (an injury) – wound (injure someone with a knife): POLYSEMY
23. in front of – behind: RELATIONAL ANTONYMY
24. lip (of a jug) – lip (of a person): POLYSEMY
25. branch (a part of a tree) – branch (a division or office of a large business or
organization): HOMONYMY
26. wind (as in The wind was blowing hard.) – wind (as in wind one’s watch): HOMOGRAPHY
27. customer – supplier: RELATIONAL ANTONYMY
28. vehicle – car: HYPONYMY
29. ripe – mature: SYNONYMY
30. professor – student: RELATIONAL ANTONYMY
31. fork (in a road) – fork (instrument for eating): POLYSEMY
32. rude – polite: GRADABLE ANTONYMY
33. bow (bend the head or upper part of the body as a sign of respect, greeting, or shame) –
bow (a knot): HOMOGRAPHY
34. doctor – patient: RELATIONAL ANTONYMY
35. never – always: GRADABLE ANTONYMY
36. married—single: BINARY ANTONYMY
37. sweet – suite: HOMOPHONY
38. absent – present: BINARY ANTONYMY
39. well (in good health) – well (a source for water in the ground): HOMONYMY
40. know – no: HOMOPHONY
41. accept – refuse: BINARY ANTONYMY
42. husband – wife: RELATIONAL ANTONYMY
43. thin – thick: GRADABLE ANTONYMY
44. tire (to grow fatigued) – tire (a part of a wheel): HOMONYMY
45. blew – blue: HOMONYMY
46. deny – admit: BINARY ANTONYMY
47. steal – steel : HOMOPHONY
48. postpone – delay: SYNONYMY
49. plant – rose: HYPONYMY
50. cup (drinking vessel) – cup (an ornamental trophy ): POLYSEMY
51. fall – autumn: SYNONYMY
52. host – guest: RELATIONAL ANTONYMY
53. right – write: (HOMOPHONY)
54. bat (an implement used to hit a ball) – bat (a nocturnal flying mammal):
HOMOPHONY
55. deep – shallow: GRADABLE ANTONYMY
56. where – wear: HOMOPHONY
57. figure (a person's bodily shape) – figure (a number): HOMOPHONY
58. rite – right: HOMOPHONY
59. fruit – orange: HYPONYMY
60. wood – would: HOMOPHONY
61. heavy – light : GRADABLE ANTONYMY
62. crocodile – reptile : HYPONYMY

63. fair (an exhibition) – fair (pleasing) : HOMONYMY


64. right – wrong : BINARY ANTONYMY
65. weak – week : HOMOPHONY
66. match (a stick for making a flame) – match (a contest in which people or teams compete
against each other in a particular sport) : HOMONYMY
67. pass – fail: BINARY ANTONYMY
68. dear – deer: HOMOPHONY
69. high – low: GRADABLE ANTONYMY
70. bye – buy: HOMOPHONY
71. sole (bottom part of foot) – sole (edible flat fish that live in sea): HOMONYMY
72. soil – earth: SYNONYMY
73. rode – road: HOMONYMY
74. asleep – awake: BINARY ANTONYMY
75. permit – allow: GRADABLE ANTONYMY
76. well – badly: GRADABLE ANTONYMY
77. plane (aeroplane) – plane (flat surface): HOMONYMY
78. sport – football: HYPONYMY
79. quick – rapid: SYNONYMY
80. pen (handwriting instrument) – pen (enclosure): HOMONYMY
81. feat – feet: HOMOPHONY
82. mug (drinking vessel) – mug (gullible person): HOMONYMY
83. ceiling (top inner surface of a room) – ceiling (upper limit): POLYSEMY
84. flour – flower: HOMONYMY
85. alive--dead: BINARY ANTONYMY
86. far – near: GRADABLE ANTONYMY
87. bark (a tree's out layer) – bark (the sound a dog makes): HOMONYMY
88. principle – principal: HOMOPHONY
89. address (to speak to) - address (location): HOMONYMY
90. drive (operate and control the direction and speed of a motor vehicle) – drive (Propel or
carry along by force in a specified direction): POLYSEMY
91. bass (the lowest adult male singing voice) – bass (the common European freshwater
fish): HOMOGRAPHY
92. fowl – rooster: HYPONYMY
93. fall – autumn: SYNONYMY
94. give – receive: RELATIONAL ANTONYMY
95. fish – salmon: HYPONYMY
96. conceal – hide: SYNONYMY
97. import – export: RELATIONAL ANTONYMY
98. die (to cease living) – die (a cube marked with numbers one through six):
HOMONYMY
99. happy – sad: GRADABLE ANTONYMY
100. male – female: BINARY ANTONYMY
101. kind (type) – kind (caring): HYPONYMY
102. broad – wide: SYNONYMY
103. clever – stupid: GRADABLE ANTONYMY
104. right (correct) – right (direction opposite of left): HOMONYMY
105. Earth (the planet that we live on) – earth (soil, the substance that plants grow in):
POLYSEMY
106. tear (a noun) – tear (a verb): HOMOGRAPHY
107. cereal – serial : HOMOPHONY

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