Washing the food down with water as a substitute ________ chewing is not a good habit

The professor worked for 7 hours at a ________. 

A mong the following words, “ ______ ” does NOT have inflectional affixes.

Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary (1987) has some unique features such as definition, extra column and ______.

What he told us was more of a(n) ________ than a reality.

The differences between synonyms exist in the following areas EXCEPT ______.

There is an ambiguity in the sentence “ He is a hard businessman ” due to ______.

Which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics of idioms?

Generally, a dictionary covers the following contents EXCEPT ______. 

______ of meaning is a process by which a word that originally had a specialized meaning has now become generalized.