B. Enormous and Huge
1. Enormous
The definition of enormous taken from CAD is very much exceeding the usual size, number, or degree; of great size; huge; vast; immense. Initially, the first line and the other lines from the very first query done from the figure below by researcher directly suggest that enormous is used exactly like what the dictionary defined since there are repetition of enormous until three times which suggest that it is very much surpass the usual degree.
2. Huge
The word huge is described by CAD as:
• Very large; gigantic; immense
• Very great; important; powerful, extensive, etc
• Extremely …show more content…
On the other hand, researcher has to admit that the differences between these words are quite fuzzy.
Notably, the difference between these words are in the forms of wealth. Enormous has been analyzed that it is found with either money or fortune in the same line. Contrary to the previous, the usage of fortune is nowhere to be found together with the word huge.
To put it briefly, these words cannot be viewed as absolute synonyms even though it is quite difficult to find the borderline that differs these words, due to the fact that every concordance lines that has been analyzed showed different thoughts about what can be categorized as either enormous or huge. However, this put enormous and huge actually differ in denotational variations especially in fuzzy denotational since the differences in their denotation is not clear-cut.
C. Envious and Jealous
1. Envious
CAD gives brief definition of envious as characterized by envy; feeling, showing, or resulting from envy. The actual usage of envious from the concordance lines of COCA showed the researcher that all the examples are suitable to what CAD defines as envy.
2. Jealous
In this section, jealous as the synonym of envious, is described by CAD