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The lineage of a word is called its _____.

a.
synonym
c.
antonym
b.
etymology
d.
anthropology

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The lineage of a word is called it's etymology
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The answer is B: etymology. The lineage of a word is called its etymology.

Etymology is the origin and study of a word or words, or the study of word origins. It's the lineage or "family" of a word.

Synonym - a word or phrase that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word or phrase.

Antonym - a word or phrase twhose meaning is the opposite of another word or phrase.

Anthropology - the study of the human race, its culture and society, and its physical development.

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