PART ONE
Directions: For each item, you will see a pair of verbs. We want to know how similar in meaning each of the new senses is to the standard sense. Two senses are “similar in meaning” to the extent that they refer to the same kinds of things and actions in the world. Here are some examples of the things we have in mind:

For both the target verb and the test verb, the verb refers to an action.
For both verbs, one object contacts another and causes it to move or change.
For both verbs, the action results in a sound.
For both verbs, the action involves a circle.
For both verbs, the action is completed.
For both verbs, there is a high pitched sound.
Both verbs refer to the internal state of some person (e.g., hunger, tiredness, mood).
For both verbs, the action involves making or moving in a circle.
For both verbs, the action involves something moving.
For both verbs, the action involves the use of the hands.
For both verbs, the action involves the use of the feet.
For both verbs, the action begins abruptly.
For both verbs, the action is performed on a physical object.
Both verbs refer to someone speaking.
For both verbs, the action involves a twisting motion.
For both verbs, the action is voluntary.
For both verbs, the entire body of the person is moved.
For both verbs, the action lasts for some period of time.
For both verbs, there was motion in a vertical direction.
For both verbs, liquid was added or removed.
For both verbs, the action involves a flexible object.
For both verbs, the action involves a permeable object.

If the verb in the test sentence you are rating shares many aspects of meaning like these with the verb in the target sentence, it should be rated as highly similar (a high number on the scale of 1 to 7). But if the verb shares few of these aspects with the verb in the target sentence, they should be rated as not similar (a low number on the scale).

Please refer back to this list often as you fill out this questionnaire to be sure that you are rating similarity in the proper way.

1 = meanings are not similiar -

7 = meanings are similar
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1. Splitting and Hitting
2. Baking and Shaking
3. Weeping and Heaping
4. Splitting and Spitting
5. Shrinking and Drinking
6. Admitting and Submitting
7. Heeding and Exceeding
8. Splitting and Quitting
9. Baking and Faking
10. Slowing and Showing
11. Lighting and Knighting
12. Siding and Confiding
13. Binding and Blinding
14. Baking and Taking
15. Glowing and Plateauing
16. Siding and Colliding
17. Rowing and Plateauing
18. Bestowing and Plateauing
19. Sliding and Gliding
20. Kinging and Slinging
21. Faking and Flaking
22. Cutting and Putting
23. Shrinking and Blinking
24. Shrinking and Sinking
25. Heaping and Seeping
26. Faking and Shaking
27. Shrinking and Stinking
28. Heeding and Needing
29. Raking and Shaking
30. Slowing and Snowing
31. Aching and Shaking
32. Growing and Knowing
33. Slighting and Inviting
34. Priding and Dividing
35. Biting and Inciting
36. Hiding and Abiding
37. Snowing and Mowing
38. Lighting and Delighting
39. Colliding and Presiding
40. Stinging and Stringing
41. Biting and Delighting
42. Shaking and Partaking
43. Blowing and Showing
44. Growing and Mowing
45. Sliding and Presiding
46. Growing and Rowing
47. Minding and Reminding
48. Mistaking and Shaking
49. Sliding and Deriding
50. Sinking and Blinking
51. Creeping and Sleeping
52. Weeping and Beeping
53. Cutting and Strutting
54. Creeping and Sweeping
55. Gliding and Siding
56. Spending and Lending
57. Creeping and Weeping
58. Splitting and Fitting
59. Leaping and Reaping
60. Abiding and Colliding
61. Sinking and Linking
62. Shutting and Putting
63. Slitting and Splitting
64. Sinking and Winking
65. Sweating and Petting
66. Beeping and Reaping
67. Reading and Bleeding
68. Setting and Sweating
69. Beeping and Seeping
70. Creeping and Keeping
71. Blinking and Linking
72. Slitting and Spitting
73. Breaking and Waking
74. Blinking and Winking
75. Reaping and Seeping
76. Shrinking and Linking
78. Shedding and Threading
79. Shutting and Cutting
80. Setting and Abetting
81. Gliding and Subsiding
82. Knowing and Snowing
83. Gliding and Guiding
84. Showing and Rowing
85. Growing and Snowing
86. Siding and Deciding
87. Gliding and Residing
88. Mowing and Rowing
89. Blowing and Plateauing
90. Priding and Providing
91. Creeping and Beeping
92. Shedding and Treading
93. Bleeding and Heeding
94. Creeping and Reaping
95. Spending and Bending
96. Bleeding and Ceding
97. Pleading and Heeding
98. Exceeding and Ceding

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