Question

When we speak of the flavor of a word, we're talking about the extra understood meanings that it carries in addition to its main meaning. These extra meanings are called

A. shadings.
B. connotations.
C. denotations.
D. definitions.

Answer 1

Usually, these extra meanings are called, "connotations" since they are not explicitly stated, but the reader can take away a wide variety of meaning from them.