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"Quarantine" once had the restricted meaning "forty days’ isolation". This is an example of ().

A. semantic broadening
B. semantic narrowing
C. semantic shift
D. loss of words

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The word holiday originally meant a holy day; but now the word signifies any day when we don’t have to work. This is an example of ().

A. meaning shift
B. widening of meaning
C. narrowing of meaning
D. loss of meaning
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Which of the following words is the example of semantic broadening().

A. hound
B. companion
C. silly
D. girl
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