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  2. False friend - Wikipedia

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    The term was introduced by a French book, Les faux amis: ou, Les trahisons du vocabulaire anglais (False friends, or, the betrayals of English vocabulary), published in 1928. As well as producing completely false friends, the use of loanwords often results in the use of a word in a restricted context , which may then develop new meanings not ...

  3. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.

  4. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence). Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect. [24] Irish: ar ball can mean "a while ago" or "in a little bit/later on" [25]

  5. Cloze test - Wikipedia

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    A cloze test (also cloze deletion test or occlusion test) is an exercise, test, or assessment in which a portion of text is masked and the participant is asked to fill in the masked portion of text. Cloze tests require the ability to understand the context and vocabulary in order to identify the correct language or part of speech that belongs ...

  6. Friendship - Wikipedia

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    The friends believe that it is fun and easy to spend time together. [37] Agency The friends have valuable information, skills, or resources that they can share with each other. [37] For example, a friend with business connections might know when a desirable job will be available, or a wealthy friend might pay for an expensive experience.

  7. Devanagari - Wikipedia

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    When Devanāgarī is used for writing languages other than Sanskrit, conjuncts are used mostly with Sanskrit words and loan words. Native words typically use the basic consonant and native speakers know to suppress the vowel when it is conventional to do so. For example, the native Hindi word karnā is written करना (ka-ra-nā). [60]

  8. List of Hindi authors - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of authors of Hindi literature, i.e. people who write in Hindi language, its dialects and Hindustani language This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.

  9. Heterophily - Wikipedia

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    Heterophily, or love of the different, is the tendency of individuals to collect in diverse groups; it is the opposite of homophily.This phenomenon can be seen in relationships between individuals.