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It frequently happens in descriptive and expressive language that a low-frequency word has to be put through the following process:

  • Break it down into all its primary and secondary, conceptual and connotative meanings

  • Decide which of these have any valency with the given context.

  • Pare these down to two words (or at very most three if they do not disturb the dynamic of the text).

  • Bracket off any remainder for possible later weighting of subsequent componential analyses. A couple of English-Czech examples:

dapper - upraveny a cily
facetious - obhrouble nebo nejapne vtipny
quaint - pritazlivy, starobyly, pitoreskni...