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How easy it is to understand an idiom by knowing all its parts is a question of ...
- ... transparency
- ... clarity
- ... fixedness
Denotation refers to ...
- ... how the word is used in communication
- ... the basic sense of a word
- ... the meanings people attach to a word
- ... the word's grammatical function
The difference between the term cow applied to a person and applied to a farm animal is one of ...
- idiomaticity
- connotation
- sense
- denotation
The expression room and board is ...
- ... an idiom
- ... three words
- ... a noun phrase
- ... a lexeme
blueishness is not in the dictionary so it's not a proper word.
- False
- Don't know
- True
Reference meaning refers to ...
- ... a particular instance of the use of a lexeme
- ... the idiomatic meaning of a lexeme
- ... the general sense of a lexeme
- ... the meaning some people might attach to a lexeme