1. hyperbole

2. Metonymy

3. Metaphor

4. euphemism

5. litotes

7. The selection of lexical units, arrangement and setting of the entries is one of the main problem in

1. lexicography

2. lexicology

3. phonetics

4. phraseology

5. grammar

8. Which of the following sentences has an idiom

1. “why can’t the mayor just cut all the red tape and let us have a parade without a permit?”

2. there are two possible explanations about the origin of this famous phrase

3. some idioms originated as colloquialisms or slang

4. some idioms were well-known proverbs and short sayings that express practical, basic truth

5. it’s time to go to bed

9. Which of the following words are of French origin

1. beau, commence, chauffeur

2. empty, ask, belly

3. afternoon, and, ask

4. hyena, home, husband

5. hippopotamus, guerilla, caftan

10. Which of the following words are native English

1. summer, hope, life

2. vacuum, exist, act

3. machine, parachute, valley

4. xylophone, epoch, chemist

5. confetti, macaroni, life

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1. A stem is

1. an unchanged part

2. a functional affix

3. a derivational affix

4. a prefix

5. a suffix

2. Suffix -er is

1. productive and active

2. non-productive and active

3. active

4. productive

5. productive and non-active

3. Conversion is a word-building process in which words are built

1. by means of changing the paradigm

2. by joining two or more stems together

3. by adding word-building affixes to stems

4. by combining parts of two words

5. by shortening a written word or phrase

4. Sound imitation, reduplication, clipping, abbreviation are

1. minor types of word making

2. productive ways of word-building

3. principal ways of word-building

4. ways of making up phraseological units

5. ways of changing syntactic pattern and paradigm of words

5. Compound words contain

1. not less than two morphemes

2. one free morpheme

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

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

5. a group of words

6. Dictionaries of abbreviations, antonyms, borrowings, new words are

1. special dictionaries

2. general dictionaries

3. glossaries

4. rhyming and thesaurus type of dictionaries

5. etymological dictionaries

7. Which of the following words is the case of an initial clipping

1. story, phone, cello

2. T-shirt, H-bone, V-day

3. flu, fridge, tech

4. babble, chatter, giggle

5. beg, housekeep, butler

8. -age, -an, -ary are

1. noun-forming suffixes

2. verb--forming suffixes

3. adjective-forming suffixes

4. adverb-forming suffixes

5. numeral-forming suffixes

9. Sources of synonyms are

1. all the above mentioned cases

2. native and borrowed words

3. shortening

4. conversion

5. euphemisms

10. The main types of dictionaries are

1. general and special

2. general and etymological

3. special and multilingual

4. usage and slang dictionaries

5. general and ideographic

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1. The following words hell, damn, shut up are

1. vulgarisms

2. terms

3. dialectical words

4. slang

5. synonyms

2. An idiom is

1. an expression or phrase the meaning of which is different from the literal meanings of its components

2. a free word-group

3. a proverb

4. a familiar quotation

5. a saying

3. Which of the following antonyms are derivational

1. careful – careless

2. slow – fast

3. correct – incorrect – wrong

4. temporary- permanent

5. enemy – friend

4. Check for the line where all the words have American spelling

1. humor, theater, program, thru

2. traveling, centre, color, offence

3. jewellery, woolen, favour meter

4. armour, although, fibre, monologue

5. telegramme, center, picturesque, favour

5. Word composition is a word-building process in which words are built

1. by joining two or more stems

2. by adding derivational affixes to stems

3. by means of changing the paradigm

4. by combining parts of two words

5. by clipping the beginning or the end of the word

6. Which of the following words are blendings

1. smog, brunch, clap

2. beggar, to burgle, to edit

3. hanky, nighty, radar

4. M.P., USA, BBC

5. ping-pong, topsy-turvy, walkie-talkie

7. According to which word-formation way the Americanisms electronic, automaniac, Gerrymander were created