WorksheetsLexicology 151/200
Total questions: 56
Worksheet time: 28mins
Phraseology studies
synonyms and antonyms
graphical abbreviations
free word-combinations and phraseological units
Shortening is
a significant subtraction of a word
a common element of words
a derived word
Which of the given words stand for the American variant of the word flat
mansion
apartment
room
What is the meaning of the underlined parts of words monolingual, monosyllable, monologue
many
each
one
Which of the following words are international
farm, video, friend, man
coffee, mango, sputnik, radio
radio, wonder-child, country, pen
Which of the following words is the British variant of the American fall
Autumn
Spring
Season
The word TV is a case of
clipping
sound interchange
abbreviation
Has been in the following sentence “She had to be satisfied with the role of a has been” is the result of
word-composition
word derivation
conversion
What is motivation
the connection between the structural pattern of the word and its graphical form
the connection between the meaning of the word and referent
the connection between the structural pattern of the word and its meaning
What are antonyms
words different in sound and graphic form and characterized by semantic polarity of denotational meaning
words different in their sound-form, but identical or similar in some of their meanings
words identical in their sound-form or in graphic form or in both, but different in meaning
Which of the following words are homonyms proper
sea (n) – see (v)
wind (n) – wind (v)
bank (n) – bank (n)
A list of words in which the entry words are arranged in alphabetical order starting with their final letters are
reverse dictionaries
pronouncing dictionaries
usage dictionaries
Which of the following lines contains only form words
lonesome, handful, are
dog-like, through, to help
from, oh!, am
Which of the following homonyms are partial
bank (n) – bank (n)
found (v) – found (v)
match (n) – match (v)
Conversives are
synonyms
antonyms
homophones
Complete the idiom “to be like as…” using one of the following words
bears
peas
twins
Now or never is
phraseological unit
saying
proverb
Which of the following suffixes are of Greek origin
-dom, -hood, -ly
-ist, - ism, - ite
-anti, -dom, -ful
The difference between the British and American English is noticeable in the field of
phonetics
grammar
in all fields of the language system
pot cheers is a word from
New York city dialect
Eastern New England dialect
Standard American
Semantically morphemes are classified as
free morphemes
semi-free morphemes
root and affixational morphemes
Lexicography deals with
classification of loan words
the word-making process in English
the theory and practice of compiling dictionaries
The type of word-building used in the following words ping-pong, riff-raff, chit-chat is
shortening
compounding
conversion
“Skin-deep” and “true-blue” are…
Derived words
Root words
Compound words
“Just” and “unjust” are…
Derivational antonyms
Absolute antonyms
Relative antonyms
The British variant of the word “конфета” is…
a candy
a sweet
all answers are correct
In the phrase “I see thee in my dreams” thee is …
a verb
a neologism
an archaism
WC is …
Synonym
Euphemism
Antonym
External meaning
morphological structure
Inner structure
Synonym
The stem of root or morpheme words contains
not less than two free morphemes
one free morpheme
a group of words
Prefixes mis-, mal-, pseudo- are
negative
privative
perjorative
The underlined words in the following sentences: “How often do you milk the cows?”, “Restaurants in all large cities have ups and downs.” “He began to nose about like an old bloodhound.” are cases of
conversion
cliché
euphemism
Which part of lexicology studies the evolution of vocabulary
general lexicology
historical lexicology
special lexicology
Which of the following words are compounds
marketing
management
seashore
The main problems in lexicography are connected with
selection and arrangement of meaning and definition of the last
illustrative examples and choice of adequate equivalents
all the problems mentioned above
Seeds of evil is
metaphor
metonymy
simile
Eye- wash
derived compound
neutral compound
contracted compound
Set expression “tooth and nail” functions like a (an)
adverb
verb
adjective
Lexical valency is the aptness of a word
to generalize its meaning
to lose its meanings
to appear in various word combinations
Which of the following phraseological units is a phraseological fusion
take a fancy
to come into fusion
red tape
Barbarisms are
grammatically assimilated words
partially assimilated words
words which are not assimilated
Functional suffixes can be called
endings
prefixes
infixes
The word dogged is
root word
compound
derivative
Which of the following dictionaries are general ones
dictionaries of slang
unilingual and bilingual dictionaries
dictionaries of toponymy
Suffixes –able, -ible are of
French origin
of Latin origin
of German origin
The specific feature of Cockney is
sound-interchange
rhyming slang
blending
The system of the grammatical forms of a word is
a stem
a root
a paradigm
What kind of clipping in the word “math”
final clipping
initial clipping
reduplication
Functional suffixes are called
infixes
prefixes
endings
Special lexicology…
discusses the origin of various words, their change and development
devotes its attention to the description of the characteristic peculiarities in the vocabulary of a given language
deals with the vocabulary of a given language of a given stage of development
The words consist of a root and affix or affixes are called ...
productives
nucleus
derivatives
Define the French borrowing word.
tomato
council
piano
Choose the antonym: “friendly”.
hostile
clever
capable
Find the type of compounding of following words "motor+hotel= motel":
Blending
clipping
abbreviation
Group of words that often sit together are called as …
Collocations
Homophones
Sound imitation
Linguistic relations between words are divided into what types?
general and special
syntagmatic and paradigmatic
contextual and distributional
