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Semantic relationships

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1.- Words having the same spelling and pronunciation, but with two or more meanings.

a)

Antonyms

b)

Polysemes

c)

Homonyms

2.

2.- The same word which has many RELATED meaning.

a)

Synonym

b)

Polysemy

c)

Antonymy

3.

3.- It’s the semantic relationship that exists between two (or more) words that have opposite meanings.

a)

Polysemy

b)

Homonymy

c)

Antonymy

4.

4.- They are combinations of two or more words that often occur together in speech and writing.

a)

Polysemes

b)

Homonyms

c)

Collocations

5.

5.- Words playing different roles, also called "parts of speech".

a)

Collocations

b)

Multi-words

c)

Word classes

6.

6.- Words that share the same base or root but take different endings.

a)

Semantic fields

b)

Word families

c)

Idioms

7.

7.- It's the process of combining two or more independent words.

a)

Clipping

b)

Blending

c)

Compounding

8.

8.- These are groups of more than one word that can function as a meaningful unit.

a)

Word families

b)

Multi-word units

c)

Polysemes

9.

9.- Words that have similar meaning.

a)

Synonyms

b)

Homonyms

c)

Semantic field

10.

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).

a)

Polysemy

b)

Hyponymy

c)

Antonymy

11.

"dead - alive " This is an exmple of :

a)

Synonyms

b)

Antonyms

c)

Polysemes

12.

12.- "rich - wealthy"

This is an example of:

a)

Antonyms

b)

Homonyms

c)

Hyponyms

13.

13.- "Bank" can refer to a financial institution or the side of a river.

  1. "Bat" can refer to a flying mammal or a piece of sports equipment.

  2. These are examples of:

a)

Homonyms

b)

Polysemes

c)

Hyponyms

14.

14.- "kick the bucket"

This is an example of:

a)

collocation

b)

idiom

c)

polysemy

15.

15.- A process where a word can be co-opted (integrate) from one part of the speech and used as another.

a)

Clipping

b)

Compounding

c)

Conversion

16.

16.- A process where new words can be coined by shortening or clipping longer words.

a)

Conversion

b)

compounding

c)

clipping

17.

17.- This process of word formation does not affect either meaning or word class.

a)

Inflexion

b)

Derivation

c)

Compounding

18.

18.- This process of word changes the meaning and / or the word class.

a)

Clipping

b)

Inflexion

c)

Derivation

19.

19.- "planetary-military-honorary"

These are examples of:

a)

suffixes

b)

affixes

c)

clipping

20.

20.- "restart-rebuild-rewrite"

These are examples of:

a)

suffixes

b)

affixes

c)

inflexion