【正确答案】正确答案：Synonymy refers to the sameness or close similarity of meaning. Words that are close in meaning are called synonyms. Some semanticians maintain, however, that there are no total synonyms.(3 points)The so-called synonyms are all context dependent. They differ from one another in one of the following aspects such as shades of meaning, stylistic meaning, emotive meaning, collocative meaning, and dialectal differences(in British and American usages). Therefore, there are rare real synonyms.(2 points)

【答案解析】解析：考查同义词的定义。同义关系指意义的相同或相近。意义上相近的词叫做同义词。完全的同义关系很少见。所谓的同义词都是依赖语境的，它们总是在某些方面有所不同，包括语体色彩、使用地域等方面。