Connotation Denotation

MOST POSITIVE Connotation for "lazy":

• slow

• inactive

• heavy

• good for nothing

Which connotation is more positive? We saw ____ animals in the animal house.

• fascinating

• weird

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9.1.1

I recognized the familiar smell of my roommate's cooking. If you change the word smell to stench, the word now has a ____________ connotation.

• positive
• negative

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9.1.2

the emotional and/or figurative meaning of a word

• denotation
• connotation
• etymology
• context clues

the literal, dictionary definition of a word

• denotation
• connotation
• etymology
• synonym

word that means the roughly same thing

• synonym
• connotation
• etymology
• context clue

synonyms can have different

• connotations
• denotations
• definitions

connotation can be described by all of the following EXCEPT

• positive
• negative
• neutral
• synonym

the literal, dictionary definition of a word

• denotation
• connotation
• etymology
• synonym

the emotional and/or figurative meaning of a word

• denotation
• connotation
• etymology
• context clues