1. Antonyms

2. synonyms

3. homophones

4. hybrids

5. etymological doublets

6. Complete the idiom “like as…” using one of the following words

1. peas

2. bears

3. twins

4. nuts

5. cucumbers

7. Now or never is

1. phraseological repetition

2. saying

3. proverb

4. hyperbole

5. jargon

8. Which of the following suffixes are of Greek origin

1. -ist, - ism, - ite

2. -dom, -hood, -ly

3. -able, -ible, -ant, -ous

4. -age, -ful, -ence

5. -anti, -dom, -ful

9. The difference between the British and American English is noticeable in the field of

1. in all fields of the language system

2. phonetics

3. grammar

4. vocabulary

5. rhythm and intonation of speech

10. pot cheers is a word from

1. New York city dialect

2. Eastern New England dialect

3. Inland Northern dialect

4. Standard American

5. Standard English

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1. Semantically morphemes are classified as

1. root and affixational morphemes

2. free morphemes

3. semi-free morphemes

4. bound morphemes

5. semi-bound morphemes

2. Lexicography deals with

1. the theory and practice of compiling dictionaries

2. the word-making process in English

3. classification of loan words

4. variants of the English language

5. the etymological background of the English word stock

3. The type of word-building used in the following words ping-pong, riff-raff, chit-chat is

1. compounding

2. Shortening

3. Conversion

4. Blending

5. back-formation

4. Stylistic synonyms are

1. two words having the same denotational meaning but differing in stylistic connotation

2. words which differ in shades of meaning

3. words which differ in connotations

4. words identical in their sound-form or in graphic form or in both, but different in meaning

5. words which differ in their morphemic structure but coinciding in their sound-form

5. Head of cabbage is

1. a metaphor

2. a metonymy

3. a saying

4. a euphemism

5. A proverb

6. Synonyms for the word to hope is

1. to expect, to look forward, to anticipate

2. to look forward, to sway, to puff

3. to wait, to plague, to anticipate

4. to appeal, to sway, to look forward

5. to controvert, to contradict, to glare

7. Taboo is the main cause of such a linguistic phenomenon as a (an)

1. euphemism

2. idiom

3. hybrid

4. etymological doublet

5. Metonymy

8. Which of the following sound-imitative words are interjections

1. bang!, bush!, pooh!

2. purr, mew, cock-a-doodle-do

3. quack, moo, buzz

4. hiss, gibber, bray

5. clash, crash, whip

9. External meaning

1. morphological structure

2. Inner structure

3. Synonym

4. idiom

5. semantic structure

10. The stem of root or morpheme words contains

1. one free morpheme

2. not less than two morphemes of which at least one is bound

3. not less than two free morphemes

4. not less than two free morphemes and one bound morpheme

5. a group of words

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1. Prefixes mis-, mal-, pseudo- are

1. perjorative

2. negative

3. privative

4. locative

5. prefixes of time and order

2. According to the structure the words: fridge, pub, tech, USA, exam are

1. shortened

2. simple

3. compound

4. derived

5. blendings

3. 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

1. conversion

2. allusion

3. cliché

4. metaphor

5. euphemism

4. The words TV, T.B. are cases of

1. abbreviation

2. clipping

3. blending

4. back-formation

5. sound interchange

5. What kind of clipping in the word “math”

1. final clipping

2. media clipping

3. initial clipping

4. reduplication

5. sound interchange

6. Metonymy is based on

1. contiguity of meaning

2. harrowing of meaning

3. pejoration of meaning

4. amelioration of meaning

5. extention of meaning

7. Check for the case of a hyperbole in the following

1. thousand pardons

2. the White House

3. mother tongue

4. the leg of the table

5. grass green

8. Dictionaries of toponyms are

1. special dictionaries

2. general

3. dictionaries of the most difficult words

4. dictionaries of frequency

5. explanatory dictionaries

9. Which of the following line has words belonging to terminology

1. telegraph, antibiotic, radar, metaphor

2. lovely, beautiful, colorful, handsome

3. a book, a shop, a suite, a street

4. to go to bed, to get up, to have breakfast, to clean

5. three, above, are, far, straight

10. The synonymic dominant in series of leave, depart, quit, retire, clear out is

1. leave

2. depart

3. quit

4. retire

5. clear out

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1. A proverb is

1. a saying expressing some well-known truth

2. a familiar quotation

3. a free word-group

4. a verb-adverb combination

5. a traditional compound

2. Complete the following idiom as sly as

1. a fox

2. a cat

3. a cock

4. a mouse

5. an owl

3. Hybrids are

1. words made up of affixes from two or more different languages

2. idiomatic compounds

3. removal of all functional and derivational elements

4. words which are made after existing patterns

5. the smallest meaningful units

4. Lass, Kirk are examples of

1. vulgarism

2. slang

3. common colloquial words

4. dialectical words

5. jargonism

5. Structural morphemes fall into

1. free, semi-free, bound, semi-bound, morphemes

2. root morphemes

3. stem morphemes

4. prefixational morphemes

5. suffixational morphemes

6. Friend is a

1. free morpheme

2. bound morpheme

3. semi-free morpheme

4. semi-bound morpheme

5. morphol

7. Sound imitation is

1. onomatopeia

2. the derivation of new words by subtraction of real or supposed affix from existing words

3. opposition of words or word-forms

4. lexical abbreviations

5. reduction of a word to one of its parts

8. What is the denotational meaning

1. the component of the lexical meaning which makes communication possible

2. the component of meaning that considers emotive charge and stylistic reference of words

3. the component of meaning that distinguishes one word from all others containing identical morphemes

4. the component of meaning recurrent in identical sets of individual forms of different words

5. the connotational meaning

9. Euphemism is

1. the substitution of unpleasant words by mild ones

2. a taboo

3. an irony

4. an ellipsis

5. litotes

10. Metaphor is a transfer of name based on

1. the association of similarity

2. contiguity of meaning

3. pejoration of meaning

4. amelioration of meaning

5. extention of meaning

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1. Jargonisms are

1. words used within a particular social group and bearing a secret and cryptic character

2. common colloquial words

3. professionalisms

4. vulgarisms

5. barbarisms

2. Words jersey, pullover are