Word Associations
> When you come across a word, a number of ideas may come into your mind. You are able to think of other words. the process of forming links as you think of the word is called words association. the more links there are between words, the more you understand them. Word association also help you remember better words you have learned before. As you recall them they become a part of your active vocabulary. You, eventually, are able to use them when you talk or write.
Word associations are generally classified as follows:
1. similarity
Example: road --- street, path, highway
2. contrast
Example: happy --- sad
3. assonance
Example: site --- cite, sight, scythe
4. subordination
Example: animal --- lion, tiger
5. co-ordination
Example: violin --- guitar, cello, banduria
6. superordination
Example: cabbage --- vegetables
7. derivation
Example: friend --- friendship
8. predication
Example: bird --- fly, eat, drink
9. predication
Example: black --- blackboard
10. characteristics or property
Example: teacher --- strict, intelligent
Exercise 1
Think of words which you usually associate with the words in the list. Write as many answers as you can.
1. family - __________________________________________________________________________
2. university - __________________________________________________________________________
3. king - __________________________________________________________________________
4. space - __________________________________________________________________________
5. love - __________________________________________________________________________
6. ambition - __________________________________________________________________________
7. job - __________________________________________________________________________
8. friend - __________________________________________________________________________
9. nature - __________________________________________________________________________
10. money - __________________________________________________________________________
Exercise 2
The underlined word in each number is the key word. the rest follow are associated with the key word except one. Pick out this one and encircle it.
- hospital -- physician, teacher, nurse, attendant
- live -- lively, living, alive, believe
- library -- beds, shelves, tables, chairs
- baby -- roll, kicks, works, crawls
- woman -- vain, handsome, lovely, demure
- parents -- caring, big, negligent, rich, poor
- friend -- sincere, helpful, hypocrite, kind
- book -- magazine, newspaper, boy, comics
- offer -- leader, manager, coordinator, house
- athletes -- baseball, ballet, soccer, tennis
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