WorksheetsTKT Glossary quiz Unit 2 Lexis
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
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1 Which of the following words could be described as abstract?
A cheese
B happiness
C crowd
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2 What is affixation?
A groups of words with similar meanings
B letters added to the beginning or end of a word to make a new word
C a pair of words that are normally used together
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3 Which option contains examples of affixes?
A -ment, -ly, re-, dis-
B / f/ʊə/ʒ/
C ; @ ?
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4 Which of these pairs of words are antonyms?
A there–their
B clothes–socks
C dry–wet
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5 Which of these groups of words are in the same category?
A useful, potato, trees, truth
B water, milk, lemonade, tea
C in, decide, natural, desk
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6 Which of these contains a chunk?
A I’ll do it tomorrow.
B See you later.
C What’s his mother’s name?
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7 Which of these describes a collocation?
A words which are made up of two or more words
B words which are regularly used together
C words which have a similar sound
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8 Which of these is a compound noun?
A brown hair
B minibus
C head teacher
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9 A compound noun is made by putting together
A words from the same lexical field.
B words of the same or different parts of speech.
C words with prefixes and/or suffixes.
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10 Concrete lexis refers to
A feelings and attitudes.
B complex ideas.
C things that can be seen or touched.
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11 A contraction is a reduced form of words
A with an apostrophe representing the sounds omitted.
B using letters in the place of full nouns.
C where different spellings are acceptable.
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12 False friends are words which
A look/sound similar and have different meanings across two languages.
B look/sound similar and have the same meaning across two languages.
C look/sound similar and have different pronunciations across two languages.
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13 Which of these describes homonyms?
A words with the same spelling and pronunciation but with different meanings
B words with different spelling but with the same meaning
C words with the same spelling but with different pronunciation
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14 Which of these pairs of words are homophones?
A tree–three
B breath–breathe
C know–no
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15 Which option contains an idiom?
A Would you like a cup of tea?
B I didn’t like the film. It wasn’t my cup of tea.
C Be careful with that cup of tea. It’s hot.
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16 Which of the following describes a lexical set?
A words which share the same topic
B words which are the same part of speech
C words which are usually used together
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17 What is lexis/vocabulary?
A words that make grammatical language patterns
B words that have only one meaning or use
C words, groups of words and phrases
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18 Which of the following are all parts of speech?
A past participles, gerunds, affixes
B conjunctions, pronouns, verbs
C countables, quantifiers, synonyms
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19 Which of these sentences contains a phrasal verb / multi-word verb?
A I don’t get on with her family very well.
B They looked up at the sky.
C She put the book down on the table.
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20 Which of these words has a prefix?
A happily
B impolite
C deliver
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21 Which is the root/base word of misunderstanding?
A understand
B standing
C misunderstand
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22 Which of these words has a suffix?
A mushroom
B postcard
C relationship
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23 Thin is a synonym of
A slim.
B thick.
C tin.
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24 Which is the best definition of terminology?
A words or expressions related to a particular subject
B words or expressions with an abstract meaning
C words or expressions from the same lexical field
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25 Which of these pairs of words is part of a word family?
A educate, education
B think, thing
C water, orange juice
