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Leksykologia - nst 8 units 24/25

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Please choose the missing word to get an idiom:


To dig into a ...............

a)

foot

b)

hole

c)

blank

d)

life

2.

Please choose the missing word:


To clutch at ...................

a)

grip

b)

grips

c)

straw

d)

straws

3.

Which idiom means "to accept criticism or punishment for something you have done" or " wypić piwo, które się nawarzyło"?

a)

to spread yourself too thin

b)

to draw a blank

c)

to face the music

d)

to get to grips

4.

Which idiom means "works immediately and very well indeed"?

a)

works magically

b)

works like magic

c)

works magic

d)

works as magic

5.

Imagine something bad happens to you and you decide you will never let it happen again. What would you say in such a situation?

a)


I've learned my lesson

b)

I had a bash

c)

I'm at beck and call of the situation

d)

I'll get my own way

6.

Don't try to................................... You cannot do all those things at the same time.

a)

jump for joy

b)

draw a blank

c)

spread yourself too thin

d)

make do

7.

Which idiom means "make someone annoyed"?

a)

fall into place

b)

put a damper on

c)

carry the can

d)

rub up the wrong way

8.

I really ............................. when I asked about his wife– she had just run away with his friend! i felt so embarrassed!

a)

got the message

b)

made all the difference

c)

did the trick

d)

put my foot in it

9.

The noise that my neighbours are making is really.........................................

a)

giving me a piece of their mind

b)

giving me an earful

c)

sending the cat among the pigeons

d)

driving me up the wall

10.

He loves whitewater rafting. He does it

a)

for kicks

b)

out of sorts

c)

to be floating on air

d)

out for blood

11.

Choose the odd word out (i.e. not referring to the same concept)

a)


lexicon

b)

vocabulary

c)

lexis

d)

lexicology

12.

Which of the areas does lexicology not really rely on?

a)

semantics

b)


morphology

c)

philosophy

d)

etymology

13.

Which of the following is the study of meaning?

a)

semantics

b)


lexicography

c)

morphology

d)

etymology

14.

A person that writes and publishes dictionaries is involved in......... ?

a)

theoretical lexicology

b)

lexicography

c)

semantics

d)

syntax

15.

What do we call morphs which are different representations of the same morpheme?

a)


antimorphs

b)

minimal pairs

c)

allophones

d)

allomorphs

16.

Information on style and registers may be entered into dictionary. Those concepts normally belong to the area of.......?

a)

sytnax

b)

phonology

c)

sociolinguistics

d)

morphology

17.

Apart from the origins of words, what does etymology also deal with?

a)


the study of the syntax

b)

the study of philosophical aspects of language

c)

The study of the history of words

d)

the study of the internal structure of words

18.

What do we call a special technique of writing and compilation of dictionaries?

a)

applied etymology

b)

applied syntax

c)

lexicology

d)

lexicography

19.

What do we call morphemes that can occur alone as individual words?

a)

prefixes

b)

bound morphemes

c)

free suffixes

d)

free morphemes

20.

What do we call a historical process whereby speakers who cannot analyse an obscure form and replace it with a different form which is morphologically transparent?

a)

folk lexycology

b)

historical sytnax

c)

folk etymology

d)

etymology