Prepare Vocabulary Recap Lesson

Prepare Vocabulary Recap, concise version 1

Part I.

1. Single Words and Compound Words
Question 1:
- Single word: a word consisting of only one syllable.
- Compound word: a word consisting of two or more syllables. Compound words include:
+ Blends: syllables sharing similar sounds.
+ Compounds: syllables sharing semantic relationships.
Question 2:
- Compounds: tight-fisted, confinement, binding, fresh, frothy, vegetation, transport, yielding, falling, desire. Note: each syllable in these compound words has meaning. Among the syllables in these compound words, there is similarity in sound, but the similarity is random, not based on semantic relationships.
- Blends: the remaining words.
Question 3: Diminishing meaning blends: white moon, beautiful curtain, tiny grapes, chilly, sparkling. The remaining words are increasing meaning blends.

2. Idioms:
Question 1: Idioms are fixed expressions commonly used to convey a complete meaning. The meaning of idioms often carries a figurative rather than literal meaning.
Question 2:
- Idioms: hit the eye and throw away the handle, the elephant seeks the fairy, crocodile tears.
- Proverbs: near ink, black; near light, bright; hanging a dog by its collar.
- Explanation of meanings:
+ Near ink, black; near light, bright: influenced by bad people, infected with bad things, close to darkness, learn and absorb good things, progress.
+ Hit the eye and throw away the handle: unfinished work, irresponsibility.
+ The elephant seeks the fairy: greedy, wanting one thing after another.
+ Crocodile tears: fake sympathy to deceive others.

Question 3:
- Animal-themed idioms:
+ Frog sits at the bottom of the well: comparing a person who lives in a narrow environment, has little contact with the outside world, so little knowledge, narrow vision. He just boasts about it, but in fact, he is only a frog sitting at the bottom of the well.
+ Fish in a pot and birds in a cage: describing the situation of being confined, bound, helpless, and losing freedom. Since getting married, she has lived in the situation of fish in a pot and birds in a cage.
- Plant-themed idioms:
+ Eggplant vine to squash vine: describes speaking, writing in a tangled, lengthy manner. I want you to express your thoughts clearly and concisely, not like eggplant vine to squash vine, so tedious.
+ Big tree shades: a person with power, great prestige, and the ability to shelter, help others. Uncle is a big tree shade, thanks to him, we have a safe life.

From playful words to insightful idioms, language is a colorful tapestry of expression. Explore these linguistic gems and enrich your understanding.

Discover the subtle shifts in meaning through diminutive and augmentative word formations, adding depth to your vocabulary.

Embark on a journey through the world of idioms, where words paint vivid pictures and convey cultural nuances.

Unveil the wisdom hidden within expressions featuring animals and plants, decoding the secrets of nature's language.

'As days turn to months, half a year slips by, with butterflies dancing in the garden and clouds veiling the mountains. Yet, the sadness lingering at the edge of the horizon remains unstoppable.' (Nguyen Du, The Tale of a Southern Girl)

III. The Meaning of Words

Câu 1: The meaning of a word encompasses the essence of the concept it represents.
Câu 2:
- Interpretation (a) is correct.
- Interpretation (b) is incorrect as it incorrectly contrasts the meaning of 'mother' with 'father' solely in terms of 'female.'
- Interpretation (c) is incorrect as it inaccurately suggests a shift in the meaning of 'mother' in the phrase 'Failure is the mother of success' through metaphor.
- Interpretation (d) is incorrect as it wrongly suggests a common meaning between 'mother' and 'grandmother' solely as 'female.'

Câu 3:
- (a) is a noun phrase, which cannot be used to explain an adjective (quantity).
- (b) is the correct explanation as it employs adjectives to elucidate another adjective.

IV. Polysemous Words and Semantic Shift

Câu 1:
A word can have one or multiple meanings, giving rise to polysemy.
- Semantic shift is the phenomenon of a word's meaning changing, leading to polysemy.
- Within polysemous words:
+ The primary meaning is the original meaning from which other meanings derive.
+ The shifted meaning is a meaning developed from the original meaning.
+ The shifted meaning is based on the primary meaning.
- Typically, a word in a sentence has a definite meaning. However, in some cases, a word can simultaneously carry both its primary and shifted meanings.
Câu 2: The word 'flower' in 'tears of flowers' is used in its shifted meaning.

V. Homonyms
Câu 1: Homonyms are words that sound alike but have different meanings, unrelated to each other.
Câu 2:
- a. There's the phenomenon of polysemy, as the meaning of the word 'leaf' in 'leaf of lung' can be seen as a result of semantic shift from the meaning of 'leaf' in 'leaf of tree.'
- b. There's the phenomenon of homonymy. The two words 'road' have similar phonetic structures. Because the meaning of 'road' in 'road to battle' has no connection with the meaning of 'road' in 'sweet as sugar road.' There's absolutely no basis to suggest that this meaning is formed based on the other.

VI. Synonyms
Câu 1: Synonyms are words with similar or nearly identical meanings (in some cases interchangeable).
Câu 2: Choose interpretation (d). Synonyms can only be interchangeable in some cases; otherwise, they cannot be replaced because most cases of synonyms are not completely interchangeable.
Câu 3: The word 'spring' can replace 'age' here because 'spring' has shifted its meaning through metaphor (taking a season in place of a year, i.e., taking a part for the whole). Substituting 'spring' for 'age' reflects the optimistic spirit of the author (as spring is an image of youthfulness, of vibrant life).

VII. Antonyms
Câu 1: Antonyms are words with opposite meanings.
Câu 2: Examples of antonym pairs: ugly – beautiful, far – near, wide – narrow.
Câu 3:
- Antonym pairs in the same category as life – death: war – peace, male – female. These pairs of antonyms represent mutually exclusive concepts.
- Antonyms in the same category as old – young: love – hate, tall – short, shallow – deep, rich – poor. These antonym pairs represent a scale of comparison, asserting one does not imply the exclusion of the other.

VIII. Levels of Word Meaning Generalization
Review the Vietnamese language review lesson (7th grade, 1st semester)
IX. Vocabulary Field
Câu 1: A vocabulary field is a collection of words sharing at least one common semantic feature.
Câu 2: Note the sentence 'They bathe our revolutions in a pool of blood' where the words 'bathe' and 'pool' share the same semantic field, enhancing the expressive power of the sentence, thus intensifying the indictment against French colonialism.

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