Literally awesome - Young World Club
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Literally awesome

  • POSTED ON: 14 Jul, 2021
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  • POSTED BY: Nimi Kurian
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English is a living language. That means it is continually growing, changing and evolving. In the process, new words are created, while old words stop being used or take on new meanings. Many words we use today had different meanings in the past.

Awe referred to fear or dread but later morphed into a reverential wonder and literally meant something that was actually happening but is today used for emphasis.

Let’s take a look at some of them. Drag and drop the meanings into the boxes given beside the word. How many did you get right?