Define the following terms.
specialization
Define the following term：
narrowing
The process by which words of good origin fall into ill reputation or non-affective words come to be used in derogatory sense is called（）
The process by which the word wife used to mean “woman” but now means "a married woman” isof word-meaning.
Which word that formerly meant animal, and later animal from Latin and beast from French found their way into English?（ ）
Borrowing has caused word-meaning changes，as indicated in“（ ） formerly meant animal，and later animal from Latin and beast from French found their way into English .”
Which of the following is one of the linguistic factors that cause the change of meaning? （）
Which of the following shows that the influx of borrowings has caused some words to change in meaning?（ ）
The following are linguistic factors that cause the change of word meaning EXCEPT（ ）.
Fortuitous formerly denoted"happening by chance" and later took on the meaning"fortunate". Such change of word-meaning is caused by（ ）.
There are generally two major factors that cause changes in meaning，extra-linguistic factors and （ ） factors within the language system.
Which of the following is the internal factor within the language system that causes changes in word-meaning?（ ）
The change of word meaning is brought about by the following internal factors EXCEPT（ ）
The two major factors that cause changes in meaning are（ ）.
As far as transfer is concerned, the phrase “loud colours” falls into the category of transfer（ ）
In the sentence “Never run towards a dangerous animal.”, the word “dangerous” is used in the （ ） sense of transfer.
In the sentence “She said with an embarrassed laugh.”, the word “embarrassed” can be classified into （ ） sense of transfer.
In the sentence “The old man, though poor, is a respectable gentleman.”, the word “respectable” is used in the （ ） sense of transfer.
Dreadful and hateful belong to（）.
The meaning of clear-sounding has changed from "sight" to "hearing". This example shows（ ）
of word-meaning.