In the sentence “Just after two years he is quite a grown boy now.” The word "grown" can be classified into（）sense of transfer.
Pitiful originally meant "full of pity", but now has changed to "deserving pity". This example shows （ ）.
The meanings of “lip” and “tongue” in “the lip of a wound” and “the tongue of a bell” have experienced（）.
Transfer as a mode of semantic change can be illustrated by the example（ ）
Degradation of meaning is the opposite of semantic elevation. The following words belong to degradation EXCEPT（ ）.
Degradation can be illustrated by the following example:（ ）.
Degradation is a process whereby words of good origin fall into ill reputation or non-affective words come to be used in derogatory sense. The following words belong to degradation EXCEPT（ ）.
Degradation of meaning is the opposite of semantic elevation. Which of the following words belong to this process?（ ）
The word silly used to mean happy, but now means foolish. This serves as an example of （ ）of word-meaning.
Degradation can be illustrated by the following example:（ ）
The process by which words of good origin fall into ill reputation or non-affective words come to be used in derogatory sense is （ ）of word meaning.
Degradation is a process whereby words of good origin fall into ill reputation or non-affective words come to be used in derogatory sense. Which of the following words belong to this process?（ ）
Which of the following shows degradation of word meaning?（ ）
A “boor” was merely a “peasant” and now means a “rude, ill-mannered person”, which belongs to（）of word meaning.
Degradation of meaning can be shown in the word ( ).
Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions according to the course book.
The degraded meaning “sexual desire ”of the word “lust ”comes from its old meaning “ ”.
Observation shows that it is much more common for word meanings to change in denotation from to pejorative than it is for them to go the other way.
Which of the following examples shows degradation of word meaning?（ ）
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