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Lexical semantics

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 7mins

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1.

Absolute synonymy are rare because they are ...

(a)  

2.

Choose absolute absolute synonyms

a)

chair/sofa

b)

somebody/someone

c)

elevator/lift

d)

noone/anyone

3.

Define plesionyms

a)

Plesionyms differ in meaning entirely.

b)

Plesionyms differ in meaning, but sound the same.

c)

Plesionyms differ in meaning slightly.

d)

Plesionyms are pronounced differently, but have the same meaning.

4.

What is an example of plesionym?

a)

rain/fog

b)

bark/bark

c)

misty/foggy

d)

sell/cell

5.

What is an example of near synonymy?

a)

error, mistake

b)

bear/bear

c)

mist/fog

6.

What are cognitive synonymy?

a)

Illustrate only the difference in time, dialect and intensity.

b)

Illustrate the difference in style and register only.

c)

Illustrate the difference in style, register, intensity, semantic analysis, time, dialects and connotations

7.

What is an example of emotive connotation? More than one is correct.

a)

politician - statesman

b)

Monday -Mondayitis

c)

smell - fragrance

d)

pretty-beautiful

8.

Are CONTRARY antonymy gradable? 

a)

yes

b)

no

9.

Complementary Antonyms are ...

a)

Complementary adjectives ONLY (true-false, open-closed)

b)

Complementary adjectives (true-false) and Contradictory - The door is open = the door is not closed

c)

Have rhetorical function. “It is meeting the public need, not private greed”

d)

Expresses a 'part-of 'relation between the denotations of related nouns

10.

Meronymy and holonymy - choose correct examples

a)

Trunk and branch are meronyms of tree, tree is a holonym of trunk and branch

b)

The house has a door, the door has a handle, the handle is a meronym of  a house

c)

A finger is a part of a hand, a hand has fingers. = fingers are meronym of a hand

d)

To stroll is to walk in some manner. stroll is a meronym of a walk

11.

Hyponymy and hyperonymy are also called ...

a)

complementaries

b)

subordinates and superordinates

c)

partonymy and troponymy

12.

What is absolute synonymy?

a)

Lexemes with same meaning, one can be substituted for the other

b)

Lexemes with similar meaning.

c)

Almost indistinguishable difference in meaning of words.