If you take an “easy” class your friend recommended and find it “hard,” you have had semantic problems due to
a. euphemistic language.
b. relative words.
c. equivocal words.
d. fiction terms.
e. semantic distracters.
Answer: b
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
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