help with the deifinitions

[cmars2]

I can't find a site that has grammar definitions. I badly needed it for our project. I'm looking for the definitions of the following words:

Context clues
Collocations
Figurative Meaning
Figure of speech
Idioms
Idiomatic expression
Lexical
Lexicon
Polysemy
reading
Reading comprehension
Reading difficulty
Structural Analysis
Synonyms
VOcabulary Proficiency
Implicit Learning
Explicit Learning

Please help. Thanks in advance.

 

[RonBee]

The term is context cues. Those are cues (indications) you get from context about the meaning of a word or sentence.

Collocations are words that are typically used together. An example of that is waiting for.

A figurative meaning of something is not a literal meaning. It is instead metaphorical.

An idiom and an idiomatic expression are pretty much the same thing. The meaning of an idiom cannot be deduced by the words alone. An idiomatic expression is not meant literally but figuratively.

Many of those terms can be found in the UsingEnglish glossary. It would be best to look them up there and if you need further help ask about them on the forum. (The phrase look them up is an example of a collocation. (It is also a phrasal verb.))

 

[Tdol]

https://www.usingenglish.com/glossary.html

 

[RonBee]

P.S. What's your project, and why do you want to know what polysemy means?

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