Meaning and Metaphor - Assignment 10 James Madison University

Instructions: Type or clearly write your answers to each of the following questions. [This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.]

• Choose two words that seem to you to have only abstract meanings. Then go the OED and look up the full entries of those two words. Is there anything in their definitions (archaic and rare ones included) or in the etymological information (make sure to expand that part to see it all) that suggests there is an older, more concrete basic meaning related to the origins of this word? If so, what is that related meaning? Did it have that meaning in English or only in another language?