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Dictionaries of American English, dialect and slang dictionaries are:

Unilingual.

Bilingual.

Multilingual.

Encyclopedic.

Glossaries.

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 sictionaries.

Dictionaries of word frequency.

Dictionaries of slang.

Dictionaries of toponyms are:

Special dictionaries.

General dictionaries.

Dictionaries of the most difficult words.

Dictionaries of frequency.

Explanatory dictionaries.

The selection of lexical units, arrangement and setting of the entries is one of the main problems in:

Lexicography.

Lexicology.

Phonetics.

Phraseology.

Grammar.

The following definition "coal, n. a black, hard substance that burns and gives off heat" is an entry from:

A descriptive dictionary.

A pronunciation dictionary.

A bilingual dictionary. v

A dictionary of pronunciation.

An etymological dictionary.

Explanatory dictionaries provide information about:

All the above mentioned features of lexical units.

The semantic features of lexical units.

The grammatical features of lexical units.

The stylistic features of lexical units.

The etymological features of lexical units.

The encyclopedic dictionaries are:

Thing-books that give information about the extra-linguistic world.

Unilingual books that give definitions of terms.

Dictionaries explaining the origin of words.

Word-books containing vocabulary items in one language and their equivalents in another language.

Multilingual dictionaries.

American English, Canadian English, Australian English, New Zealand English are:

Variants of English, its regional or territorial variety having its own grammar and vocabulary.

Dialects.

Separate languages.

Variants of English, its regional or territorial variety having neither grammar nor vocabulary of its own.

Artificial languages.

What is Cockney?:

One of the best known southern dialects (the regional dialect of London).

The British Standard English.

The Scottish variant of English.

An artificial language.

The Irish dialect.

The word TV is a case of:

Abbreviation.

Clipping.

Blending.

Back-formation.

Sound interchang.

Varieties of the English language peculiar to some districts and having no normalized literary form are:

Local dialects.

Variants of English.

Separate languages.

Dialectisms.

Artificial language.

Which of the following words are international?:

Coffee, mango, sputnik, radio.

Farm, video, friend, man.

Bungalow, blitz, masterpiece, money.

Radio, wonder-child, country, pen.

Escalator, car, park, television.

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

In all fields of the language system.

Phonetics.

Grammar.

Vocabulary.

Rhythm and intonation of speech.

Nothern, Midland, Eastern, Western and Southern as dialects exist in:

Great Britain.

New Zealand.

Australia.

The USA.

Canada.

The words pyjamas, khaki, mango, bungalow which became international come from

India.

New Zealand.

Australia.

Canada.

The USA.

Words borrowed from one language into several other languages are called:

International.

Borrowings.

Euphemisms.

Synonyms.

Toponyms.

The words glamour, kilt, raid came into English from:

The Scottish dialect.

Cockney.

The Irish dialect.

Australian English.

Canadian English.

The specific feature of Cockney is:

Rhyming slang.

Shortening.

Sound-interchange.

Reduplication.

Blending.

Check for the line where all the words have American spelling:

Humor, theater, program, thru.

Travelling, centre, colour, offence.

Jewellery, woolen, favour, metre.

Armour, although, fibre, monologue.

Telegramme, center, picturesque, favour.

The toponyms Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Utah are:

Indian words (of Indian tribes).

Spanish words.

German words.

French words.

Italian words.

The following words dormitory, fall, elevator, apartment are typical for:

American English.

Standard English.

Cockney. ^v

Canadian English.

Slang.

A word that appears or is specially coined to name a new object or express a new concept is a:

Neologism.

Euphemism.

Homonym.

Hybrid.

Loan word.

The system of the grammatical forms of a word is:

A paradigm.

A stem.

A root.

Grammatical.

A syntax.

A stereotyped expression mechanically reproduced in speech is a:

Cliche.

Proverb.

Set-expression.

Phraseological unit.

Idiom.

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

Blending.

Shortening.

Conversion.

Compounding.

Back-formation.

Which of the following words arc native English?:

empty, ask, belly.

Devoid, interrogate, stomach.

Vacuum, question, abdomen.

Finish, complete, ascend.

Compare, cry, commence.

What does lexical assimilation of borrowings comprise?:

Various changes in the semantic structure of the word and formation of derivatives from borrowed word-stems.

Change in sound form and stress.

Different changes in sound -form and grammatical paradigms.

Changes in sound form.

Structural changes.

Which of the following suffixes are of Greek origin?

-ist, -ism, -ite.

-dom, -hood, -ly.

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

-age, -ful, -ence.

-anti, -dom, -fill.

Red tape, mare's nest are:

Phraseological fusions.

Phraseological unities.

Phraseological combinations.

Proverbs.

Familiar quotations.

Which of the following statements is the distinctive feature of coordinative compounds?:

ICs are semantically and structurally equally important.

ICs are structurally equally important.

ICs are semantically equally important

ICs are neither structurally nor semantically equal in importance.

They are made up only with the help of a linking element.

Which of the following words are syntactic compounds?:

Seashore, hardball, whitehead, black shirt.

Shoeblack, bluebottle, red-hot, whitehot.

Blue pencil, babysitting, slow coach.

Heartbreaking, shipbuilding, whitehot.

Whitehead, heartburning, shilly-shally.

Which of the following words are case of back formation?:

To baby-sit, to beg, to cobble.

To burgle, to envy, to escape.

To trust, to finger, to learn.

To show, to lift, to chat.

Chortle, brunch, smog.

Complete the idiom "like as..." using one of the following words:

Peas

Bears

Twins

Cucumbers

Nuts

What is the difference between the derivational and functional suffix?:

A derivational suffix forms various new words while a functional suffix forms various grammatical forms of the same word.

A derivational suffix precedes and a functional suffix follows the root.

Both of them precede the root. , _k

Both type of suffixes follow the root, a derivational suffix forms nouns, functional suffix forms other parts of speech.

They are synonymous terms.

Omission of a word or words considered for grammatical completeness but not for the conveyance of the intended lexical meaning is called:

Ellipsis.

Blend.

Portmanteau word.

Shortening.

Acronym.

Which of the following dictionaries are general ones?:

Dictionaries of derivations, antonyms, borrowings.

Etymological, frequency, phonetical, rhyming dictionaries.

Dictionaries of slang.

Dictionaries of American English dialect.

Dictionaries of toponymy.

Which of the following words contain diminutive suffixes?

Auntie, nightie, manikin.

Mini-car, mini-skirt, mini-crisis.

Drunkard, gangster, underling.

Poetic, picturesque.

Lowly, sunny, wonderful.

What is the similarity between a set-expression and a word?:

Both words and set-expressions possess semantic unity.

Both words and set-expressions possess figurative meanings.

They have no similarity at all.

They both are grammatically variable.

They are completely similar.

Proof in the word fireproof is:

A semi-affix.

An infix.

An allomorph.

A suffix.

An inflection.

Which of the following words have derived stems?:

Beautiful, girlish, activate.

Story-teller, match-box, friendly.

Distance, experiment, sequence, police.

Take, cup, look.

Chortle, goody-goody, UNO.

An exaggerated statement not meant to be understood literally but expressing an intensely emotional attitude of the speaker to what he is speaking about called:

Hyperbole.

Exaggeration.

Irony.

Metaphor.

Litotes.

Synonyms for the word to hope is:

To expect, to look forward, to anticipate.

To look forward, to sway, to puff.

To wait, to plague, to anticipate.

To appeal, to sway, to look forward.

To controvert, to contradict, to glaze.

Ideographic dictionaries are designed for:

English speaking writers, orators, seeking to express their ideas.

Those who look for improving pronunciation.

Those who are interested in phraseological units.

Children.

Language learners.

Check for the case of a hyperbole in the following:

Thousand pardons.

The White House.

Mother tongue.

The leg of the table.

Grass green.

Complete the following idiom as sly as...:

A fox.

A cat.

A rock.

An owl.

A rose.

Seeds of evil is:

Metaphor.

Metonymy.

Simile.

Litotes.

Epithet.

An occasional word is:

A word which cannot be considered a permanent element of the word stock.

A word that appears or is specially coined to name a new object.

A word of etymologically different origins.

A word borrowed from another language.

A word formed by combining stems.

What does the native element of the English vocabulary consist of?:

Indo-European and Germanic elements.

Latin and Celtic elements.

Celtic, Germanic and Scandinavian elements.

Indo-European and Celtic elements.

Celtic and Scandinavian elements.

Which of the following words are homophones?:

Night (n)-knight (n).

Tear (n) - tear (v).

Lead (n) - lead (v).

Wind (n) - wind (v).

New (adj) - old (adj.

Which parts of speech are especially affected by conversion?:

Verbs and nouns.

Adjectives.

Adverbs.

Pronouns.

numerals.

Grammatical meaning is the component of meaning proper to:

Sets of word-forms.

Words.

Parts of the sentence.

Parts of speech.

Affixes.

Which of the following phraseological units is a phraseological fusion?:

Red tape.

Take a fancy.

Wash one's dirty linen in public.

Show one's teeth.

To come into fashion.

How many semantic structures does a compound word possess?:

A single semantic structure.

Two semantic structures.

Three semantic structures.

Four semantic structures.

Five semantic structures.

Concept is:

A thought.

An object.

A sound-form.

A meaning.

A referent.

Which of the following words are homonyms proper?:

Ball (n)-ball(n).

Wind (n) - wind (v).

Check (n) - cheque (n).

Been (v)- bean (n).

Bear (n) - bear (v).

The word exam is a case of:

Clipping.

Blending.

Back-formation.

Sound-interchange.

Onomatopoeia.

Which of the following phraseological units is a phraseological collocation?:

To bear malice.

To come into fashion.

To kick the bucket.

To show one's teeth.

Red tape.

Has been in the following sentence "She had to be satisfied with the role of a has been " is the result of:

Conversion.

Word-composition.

Word derivation.

Polysemy.

Affixation.

Morphemes occur as

Constituents of words.

Constituents of sentences.

Constituents of sounds.

Constituents of phrases.

Free forms.

The words lab and laboratory are different in:

Structure.

Stylistics.

Meaning.

Affixation.

Derivation.

Which of the following homonyms are partial?:

Match (n) -match (v).

Found (v) -found (v).

Bank (n) -bank (n.

Ball (n)-ball (n).

Jam (n) -jam (n).

Which of the following phraseological units is not motivated?:

Hot dog.

Bear a grudge.

Bear malice.

Take a liking.

To show one's teeth.

Check for the homographs in the following sets of words:

Bow - bow.

New - knew.

Brake - break.

By - buy.

Piece – peace

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

Abbreviation.

Clipping.

Blending.

Back-formation.

Sound interchange.