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• Prefixes• Suffixes • Compound words, ex: telephone numb
er, bookshop• Collocation (words that occur together),
ex: black tea, heavy rain• Idioms are a kind of fixed expression as
they can’t be changed
• Synonyms (words with the same or similar meanings)
• Antonyms (words with opposite meanings),
• Lexical sets (groups of words that belong to the same topic area), ex: family, furniture, food.
• Word family, ex: real, really, realistic, unreal
• False friends (they are words which have the same of a similar form in two languages but a different meaning)
• Homophones (words with the same pronunciation but different meaning or spelling)
• Homonyms (words with the same spelling but different meaning)
• Varieties of English
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