Question

Extension/ Intension

Name three things connoted by the following:

1. country

2. game

3. planet

4. city

5. mammal

Name three things denoted by each of the following:

6. movie

7. U.S. Senator

8. Philosopher

9. Nobel Prize winner

10. jazz musician

11. Put the following in order of increasing intension

shrub, Portland rose, plant, perennial, rose

12. Put the following in order of increasing extension:

polygon, equilateral triangle, isosceles triangle, convex polygon, triangle

13. Put the following in order of decreasing intension:

printing, book, 20th-century fictional book, The Grapes of Wrath, fictional book

14. Put the following on order of decreasing extension:

human, Apollo 11 crew member, pilot, Neil Armstrong, astronaut

Answer 1

Connotations indicate the associated or secondary meaning( such as cultural interpretations) of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning. In the following words, the possible connotations are as follows:

1 country: ‘ a place of birth’, ‘ a territory which gives identity to people’ , ‘ a region for which wars are fought’.

2. Game: ‘ a leisure activity ‘, ‘ a time associated with childhood’, ‘ an act that may involve chess boards’

3. Planet: ‘ the number 9’, ‘ the universe’, ‘ something which is outside of our vision’

4. City: ‘ a crowded place’, ‘ bigger than town’, ‘ a place with high end retail stores’.

5. Mammal: ‘creatures that rhyme with mother’, ‘ those animals who care for their offspring’s for longer time’, ‘ closer to human beings’.