1) Access WordNet here.  Follow the link in the left-hand frame called “Use WordNet Online”. You will reach a page that asks for a word to search, takes the word you enter, performs the search, and returns the result. You can use the browser's backward to go back to the search page to search for another word when you are finished with the results.

• Search for the word mouse. Note which parts of speech it has, and how many meanings for each part of speech.
• Search for several English words of your choice, and for each use the pull-down menu to look up its hierarchically related terms: synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, meronyms, etc. Try some ambiguous words and some unambiguous ones, some from each part of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.) and some technical and non-technical words.
• Answer the following questions:
  1. How many word senses are there for the noun reading of the word bank? How many for its verb reading?
  2. Give a sentence which uses the word bank with one of its less common senses (use your judgment to decide). Then provide a careful paraphrase of that sentence without using the word bank.
  3. Give a concept that WordNet lists as having a meronymic relationship with sense 9 of the noun reading for the word bank. Then give another concept that is meronymically related to the same sense, that WordNet doesn't list but that you know is possible, based on your experience with this kind of bank.

2) (Optional) Download and install onto your own machine any of the WordNet Local Interfaces (API's) and/or Extensions, for any programming/scripting language you're familiar with. Give examples of data you found using your local installation.