Экзаменационные вопросы по лексикологии

«Kick the bucket» is euphemistic word for________

• Death

• Apologize

• Play

• Beg

• Question

One of the best-known Southern dialects is__________

• Cockney

• Midland

• American

• RP

• North

The science of dictionary-compiling is called _________

• Lexicography

• Lexicology

• Lexis

• Stylistics

• Morphology

_______ is a variety of a language which prevails in a district, with local peculiarities of vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar

• A dialect

• A slang

• A term

• A metaphor

• A morpheme

How many main groups of dialects are there in GB?

• 5

• 4

• 6

• 3

• 7

_______ are used in everyday conversational speech both by cultivated and uneducated people of all age groups.

• Colloquial words

• Professional words

• Literary words

• Slang words

• Historical words

What is American equivalent of the word "sweets"?

• Candies

• Cookies

• Biscuits

• Mints

• Lollipops

_______are words which are no longer used in everyday speech, which have been ousted by their synonyms.

• Archaisms

• Phraseologisms

• Neologisms

• Homonyms

• Antonyms

________are word-groups that cannot be made in the process of speech they exist in the language as ready-made units.

• Phraseologisms

• Homonyms

• Archaisms

• Neologisms

• Antonyms

To native words belong ____________

• Most of prepositions

• Study of meaning

• Study of word-building

• All of them

• Some adjectives