Identify the meaning relation for each example. Possible answers are synonymy, antonymy, polysemy, homophony, contradict, hyponymy, hypernymy, paraphrase, contradiction.

a) chair / furniture
b) run: verb meaning to walk rapidly / run: a point in baseball
c) Phil owns a dog, but he doesn't own an animal
d) break / build
e) fly: verb meaning to soar through air / fly: a bug
f) Rodney gets no respect / Rodney is insulted often
g) Phil owns a car / Phil has an automobile

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a) hyponymy
b) homophony
c) contradiction
d) antonymy
e) polysemy
f) entailment?
g) paraphrase

Are any of these incorrect? Thanks

2 answers

A - don’t know
B - yes
C - yes
D - yes
E - How is this different from B?
F - don’t know
G - probably
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