If you call the container in which you carry your lunch a bag and your roommate calls the container in which s/he transports lunch a sack, you are demonstrating that
A)words are context bound.
B)words are culturally bound.
C)words have denotative meaning.
D)words are arbitrary.

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Words are arbitrary because there is no inherent connection between the word itself and the object it represents; different people can use different words for the same object.

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