Homonymy, Different words with the same form / “Bank” → river bank / money bank, Polysemy, One word with multiple related meanings. / “Head” → body part / leader of a group, Synonymy, Words with similar meanings. / “Big” ≈ “Large”, Antonymy, Words with opposite meanings. / “Hot” ↔ “Cold”, Hyponymy, A specific word within a general category. / “Rose” → a type of flower, Meronymy, Part–whole relationship between words. / “Wheel” → part of a car, Metonymy, Referring to something using a related concept. / “The White House announced…” → the U.S. government, Anomaly, A semantically odd combination of words. / “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously”

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