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Emotionally colored words

Emotionally coloured words are contrasted  to  the emotionally neutral ones. The words of  this type express notions but do not say  anything about the state of the speaker or his   mood. F:  copy, report, reach, say, well  are all  emotionally neutral. Many words are neutral  in their direct meaning and emotional under  special conditions of context .
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Synonyms and their classification

English is very rich in synonyms. An elementary dictionary of  synonyms contains over 8 000 synonyms.  Synonymy is the coincidence in the essential meaning of words which usually preserve their differences in connotations and stylistic characteristics.  Synonyms are two or more words belonging to the same part  of  speech and possessing one or more identical or nearly  identical denotational meanings, interchangeable in some contexts. These words are distinguished by different shades of meaning, connotations and stylistic features. We divide synonyms into the following groups:  ideographic ( e.g. beautiful, fine, handsome, pretty, pleasant,  different, various  large, great, huge, tremendous, colossal ) stylistic ( e.g.    doctor (official), doc (familiar examination (official), exam (coll.) to commence (official), to begin (coll.) )  contextual ( e.g.  I’ll go to the shop and  buy ...
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