A list of words below have undergone semantic shift in English and other languag

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A list of words below have undergone semantic shift in English and other languages.

Slelect what kind of semantic shift each word has undergone from the following types: Transfer, pejoration, narrowing, or ameloriation.

'any crawling creature' > worm

'warlike' > chivalrous

'pleasure' > lust

Latin tripaliare 'torture with a 3-spiked instrument' > French travailler 'work'

'any crawling creature' > worm

'warlike' > chivalrous

'pleasure' > lust

Latin tripaliare 'torture with a 3-spiked instrument' > French travailler 'work'

1) Pejoration , as it describes something.

2) Transfer, as the situation is .

3) Narrowing, shifting of the moments and more depth of something.

4) Ameloriation, Its the act of making something more better.

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