Although the meanings of words may

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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Although the meanings of words may necessarily be liable to change, it does not follow that the lexicographer is therefore unable to render spelling, in a great measure, -------.
(A) arbitrary (B) superfluous © interesting (D) flexible (E) constant
I thing (d) is the correct answer. Am I correct?
What does “necessarily” suggest?
What is the sense of the bold part?

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Probably (a) but it looks as if this is context dependent and the view previously lais out should be taken into consideration.
(I think it’s A because the writer has just said that meanings can change but it DOES NOT follow that spelling should do something. I assume, with no further context, that he is saying it does not follow that spelling can change so easily.)

necessarily - there is some necessity for the word meaning to change.

I’ve excplained the meaning of the bold part in my first paragraph.

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  1. Can we sense what kind of necessities are speaking about?
  2. Does “in a great measure” “mean in large scale”?
  3. Does “it does not follow” mean “it does not mean”?
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  1. Presumably this was covered in the previous part of the writing.
  2. It means ‘to a great extent’.
  3. yes, in a way. Although (A) is the case, the same does not apply to (B).