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HW2

Updated 4 Oct 2026

  1. Which statement contains both emotive and cognitive meanings?
    • The athletes were on a boat this year.
    • The ceremony was 4 hours and 19 minutes long.
    • Some scandalous scenes at the opening ceremony made some people feel offended.
    • There was a display of architecture and culture in most of the parts of the ceremony.
  2. Which of these statements may have a problem with vagueness?
    • Our company ran this package trip more than ten times last year.
    • There are activities on this trip that you can participate in.
    • The entire trip package will cost you 97,000.00 baht.
    • The trip includes a few stops at places where you can shop.
  3. Which of these terms has cognitive meaning only?
    • bloodlust
    • person
    • slaughtered
    • inhuman
  4. These expressions are hazy, obscure, and imprecise that it is impossible to know if they apply or not to borderline cases.
    • Tambiguous
    • vague
    • lexical
    • precising
  5. These expressions have more than one interpretation or distinct meaning.
    • Ambiguous
    • Vague
    • Etymological
    • Precise
  6. Which statement is a case of stipulative definition?
    • Tax is a system of squeezing hard-earned money from honest middle-class citizens only.
    • During our project presentation, one student member will bring all the materials. We will call that student "Chao Phraya".
    • In intercultural studies, power distance, one of the attributes of a national cultures proposed by G. Hofstede, means the degree to which the members of the group accept the uneven distribution of power among its members.
    • On this reselling app, a luxury bag means a container made of flexible materials with an opening on top and can be used for carrying things. This container must at least have a retail price of 30,000.00 THB.
  7. This definition assigns meaning to a word for the first time.
    • Stipulative
    • Theoretical
    • Lexical
    • Precising
  8. Which statement has ambiguous terms?
    • College students are turning to vegetables.
    • Some questions in the college exams are easy to answer.
    • The change in education system is too slow.
    • Students do not get tested on their understanding of the lessons often enough.
  9. Mary: The bride walked down the aisle with her father, wearing a beautiful gown.
    Paul: Why was her father in a dress?
    What type of ambiguity is the above example? (Bonus item. This topic has been excluded in the current syllabus.)
    • Cross-reference
    • Factual dispute
    • Structural
    • Lexical
  10. The word or words being defined.
    • Definiendum
    • Defective
    • Delta
    • Defininiens
  11. Which is a verbal dispute?
    • Conversation 1
      • Fawn: China is an ASEAN member state.
      • Poon: No, it's not. The member states are all Southeast Asian countries.
    • Conversation 2
      • Book: You are late again.
      • Bank: Again? This was the only time that I was late.
    • Converstation 3
      • Tay: Your boyfriend is abusive. He hits you.
      • New: He's not abusive. He's just full of passion.
    • Conversation 4
      • Fah: I came here first.
      • Toey: You're wrong. I got here an hour before you.
    • The one between Fawn and Poon.
    • The one between Fah and Toey.
    • The one between Tay and New.
    • The one between Book and Bank.
  12. To define "inanimate", Paul lifted the plastic chair and said, "This is inanimate." 
    What definition technique did Paul use?
    • Synonymous
    • Enumerative
    • By genus and difference
    • Demonstrative
  13. Which definition suggests a deductive consequence that can be further investigated through research?
    • Theoretical
    • Precising
    • Stipulative
    • Persuasive
  14. "Cancer- late Middle English: via Anglo-Norman French from Latin, ‘crab’" What definition technique is used here?
    • By subclass
    • Demonstrative
    • By genus and difference
    • Etymological
  15. When the emotive terms are removed, which best captures the cognitive meaning of the original statement?
    • "This course on innovation has been mangled into utter uselessness by reducing it into a semester of unrelated topics and useless child's craft project."
    • The contents that do not relate to the course and basic art project have lowered the value of the course on innovation.
    • The course on innovation has been replaced with a different subject that introduces students to popular topics.
    • The innovation course met success due to students' engagement with the activities of the course.
    • The course on innovation introduces new contents each year.
  16. Which statement uses vague terms?
    • The song needed a second bridge. I did not mean you should construct an elevated road.
    • Luxury goods are items that cost three times more than the average price of similar products.
    • My teacher said to read the short text, but the passage is 6 pages long.
    • My best friend is so traditional that we call him "salim".
  17. Which box contains the definition?
    • Yellow box
    • Blue box
    • Purple box
    • The definition is not inside any box at all.
  18. Which box contains the definiendum?
    • Yellow box
    • Blue box
    • Purple box
    • The definiendum is not inside any box at all.
  19. Which word below causes ambiguity?
    • "The car hit the post so hard that it was damaged badly."
    • hit
    • post
    • it
    • badly
  20. Which statement has a problem with ambiguity?
    • You need to be fit enought.
    • I died when I learned I was going to a Taylor Swift concert.
    • The building is very huge.
    • I thought this exam was so difficult.Which of these terms has cognitive meaning only