A group of words that belong to the same category, such as apple, kiwi, banana, pineapple, is known as what?

• A. Lexical set
• B. Word family
• C. Compound adjective
• D. Endophoric reference

Answer: (A)

Grouping words by the category they belong to is called forming a lexical set. In this example, apple, kiwi, banana, and pineapple are all fruits, so they share the same semantic domain and fit as a lexical set. This helps you see how related words connect in meaning and aids memory by linking items under a common category. The other terms don’t describe this idea: a word family involves words that share a root or morphological family, not a shared category; a compound adjective is a specific grammatical form created by combining words into an adjective; and an endophoric reference is a linguistic device that refers to something earlier in a text.