WorksheetsSemantic relationships
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
1.- Words having the same spelling and pronunciation, but with two or more meanings.
Antonyms
Polysemes
Homonyms
2.- The same word which has many RELATED meaning.
Synonym
Polysemy
Antonymy
3.- It’s the semantic relationship that exists between two (or more) words that have opposite meanings.
Polysemy
Homonymy
Antonymy
4.- They are combinations of two or more words that often occur together in speech and writing.
Polysemes
Homonyms
Collocations
5.- Words playing different roles, also called "parts of speech".
Collocations
Multi-words
Word classes
6.- Words that share the same base or root but take different endings.
Semantic fields
Word families
Idioms
7.- It's the process of combining two or more independent words.
Clipping
Blending
Compounding
8.- These are groups of more than one word that can function as a meaningful unit.
Word families
Multi-word units
Polysemes
9.- Words that have similar meaning.
Synonyms
Homonyms
Semantic field
10.- The semantic relationship that exists between two (or more) words in such a way that the meaning of one word includes (or contains) the meaning of other words(s).
Polysemy
Hyponymy
Antonymy
"dead - alive " This is an exmple of :
Synonyms
Antonyms
Polysemes
12.- "rich - wealthy"
This is an example of:
Antonyms
Homonyms
Hyponyms
13.- "Bank" can refer to a financial institution or the side of a river.
"Bat" can refer to a flying mammal or a piece of sports equipment.
These are examples of:
Homonyms
Polysemes
Hyponyms
14.- "kick the bucket"
This is an example of:
collocation
idiom
polysemy
15.- A process where a word can be co-opted (integrate) from one part of the speech and used as another.
Clipping
Compounding
Conversion
16.- A process where new words can be coined by shortening or clipping longer words.
Conversion
compounding
clipping
17.- This process of word formation does not affect either meaning or word class.
Inflexion
Derivation
Compounding
18.- This process of word changes the meaning and / or the word class.
Clipping
Inflexion
Derivation
19.- "planetary-military-honorary"
These are examples of:
suffixes
affixes
clipping
20.- "restart-rebuild-rewrite"
These are examples of:
suffixes
affixes
inflexion
