Semantic Changes

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Amelioration
Lexis takes a more positive meaning
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Pejoration
Lexis takes a more negative meaning
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Broadening
Word keeps its original meaning but acquires others
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Idiom
An expression that can’t be understood literally from the meanings
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Cliché
Where an idiom is regularly used
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Metaphor
Where the lexis acquires new meaning because it is used metaphorically
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Euphemism
Describing something in a pleasant manner
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Card 2

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Pejoration

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Lexis takes a more negative meaning

Card 3

Front

Broadening

Back

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Card 4

Front

Idiom

Back

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Card 5

Front

Cliché

Back

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