Lexicology Test

'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

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