Лексикология

1. Give a homophone to ‘suite’

1. sweet

2. suit*

3. swite

4. cirt

5. swart

2. Give a homophone to ‘sew’

1. so

2. saw

3. sure

4. sir*

5. sore

3. Define the type of composition in the word ‘sunflower’

1. neutral *

2. morphological

3. syntactic

4. conversion

5. affixation

4. Define the type of composition in the word ‘handicraft’

   1. Morphological*

2. neutral

3. syntactic

4. affixation

5. no correct answer

5. The smallest meaningful language unit

1. Morpheme*

2. word

3. set expression

4. free phrase

5. idiom

6. The main way of enriching vocabulary

1. word-building*

2. word-structure

3. metaphor

4. metonymy

5. phoneme

7. One of the most productive ways of word-building

1. Affixation*

2. metophor

3. metonymy

4. phenomenon

5. word-stock

8. Define the origin of the word ‘opera’

1. Italian*

2. German

3. Latin

4. Greak

5. Russian

9. Define the origin of the word ‘steppe’

1. Russian*

2. Latin

3. French

4. German

5. Italian

10. Homophones are…

1. words of the same sound form but of different spelling and meaning *

2. words which are different in sound form and meaning but identical in spelling

3. words similar in meaning

4. words of opposite meaning

5. words of native origin

11. Define the type of borrowing ‘solar’

1. Latin*

2. French

3. German

4. Spanish

5. Russian

12. Complete the simile ‘as busy as …’

1. Bee*

2. horse

3. dog

4. plane

5. cat

13. Give homophone to ‘fare’

1. Fair*

2. fear

3. fiber

4. fire

5. feint

14. Give homophone to ‘hear’

1. Here*

2. hire

3. hare

4. harm

5. herd

15. Define the type of word-building in the word ‘re-think’

1. Affixation*

2. conversion

3. sound-imitation

4. shortening

5. back formation

16. Define a feminine suffix

1. –ess*

2. -er

3. -ness

4. -less

5. -ful

17. Define the type of word-building process in a word ‘earthquake’

1. Neutral*

2. morphological

3. syntactic

4. conversion

5. sound-imitation

18. Define the type of word-building process in a word ‘honey-mooner’

1. dirived compound *

2. simple

3. compound

4. derived

5. root

19. Define the etimology of the word ‘genre’

1. French*

2. German

3. Latin

4. Spanish

5. Russian

20. Define the etimology of the word “bouquet’’

1. French*

2. German

3. Latin

4. Russian

5. Spanish

21. Give homophone to ‘paw’

1. pour *

2. pair

3. pure

4. peer

5. pire

22. Lexicology is …

1. the study of words*

2. the study of meaning

3. the study of grammar

4. the study of sounds

5. the study of syntax

23. By external structure of the word we mean its

1. morphological structure*

2. meaning

3. grammar

4. syntax

5. emotions

24. The internal structure of the word is its…

1. semantic structure*

2. morphological structure

3. syntax

4. emotions

5. grammar

25. The totality of words in a language…

1. Vocabulary*

2. dictionary

3. loan

4. onomatopiea

5. synchrony

26. The system of the gramatical forms of a word is…

1. paradigm*

2. referent

3. concept

4. notion

5. lexeme

27. Find a synonym to ‘benevolent’

1. Friendly*

2. homely

3. goodly

4. earthly

5. brotherly

28. Give adjective of Latin origin to ‘sun’

1. Solar*

2. sunny

3. vital

4. oral

5. feline

29. Complete the simile ‘as fast as….’

1. Lightning*

2. lion

3. swine

4. cat

5. dog

30. Complete the simile ‘ as light as …’

1. Feather*

2. weather

3. horse

4. lion

5. lightning

31. Complete the simile ‘ as black as …’

1. soot *

2. wolf

3. dog

4. cat

5. feather

32. Complete the proverb ‘a new broom…’

1. sweeps clean*

2. spoils the brolh

3. makes light work

4. forms the defence

5. catches the worm

33. Complete the proverb ‘fortune favours…’

1. the brave*

2. like home

3. easy go

4. sweeps clean

5. make light work

34. The smallest indivisible two-faced language unit is…

1. Morpheme*

2. word

3. phrase

4. phoneme

5. idiom

35. Define the type of the compound word ‘son-in-law’

1. Syntactic*

2. neutral

3. morphological

4. shortening

5. conversion

36. Define the type of the phraselogical unit ‘to be good at something’

1. phraseological combination*

2. phraseological unity

3. phraseological fusion

4. phraseological-unit

5. phraseological construction

37. Words which are no longer used in everyday speech

1. archaisms*

2. neologisms

3. synonyms

4. antonyms

5. metaphor

38. The theory and practice of compiling dictionaries

1. lexicography *

2. lexicology

3. semasiology

4. phraseology

5. morphology

39. Affixless way of word-building

1. Conversion*

2. derivation

3. connotation

4. denotation

5. reversion

40. Onomatopeia

1. sound imitation*

2. composition

3. compounding

4. conversion

5. shortening

41. Define words which are made by doubling a stem

1. ping-pong *

2. railway

3. dragon-fly

4. good-for-nothing

5. son-in-law

42. Define words which are made by doubling a stem

1. walkie-talkie*

2. forget-me-not

3. father-in-law

4. merry-go-round

5. looking-glass

43. Define words which are made by doubling a stem

1. dilly-dallying*

2. medium-size

3. dragon-fly

4. T-shirt

5. light-hearted

44. The ability of words to have more than one meaning

1. Polysemy*

2. synonymy

3. homonymy

4. antonymy

5. anomaly

45. The process of development of a new meaning or a change of meaning is termed…

1. Transference*

2. transformation

3. transmission

4. transportation

5. treason

46. Transference based on resemblance

1. metaphor *

2. metonymy

3. paradox

4. sound imitation

5. onomatopoeia

47. Transference based on contiguity

1. Metonymy*

2. metaphor

3. synonymy

4. antonymy

5. homonymy

48. Define the type of transference in 'a neck of the bottle'

1. metaphor *

2. metonymy

3. synonymy

4. homonymy

5. antonymy

49. The word TV is a case of

1. Abbreviation*

2. clipping

3. blending

4. antonymy

5. homonymy

50. Define the type of transference in 'kashmir'

1. Metonymy*

2. metaphor

3. synonymy

4. homonymy

5. antonymy

51. Define the word with diminutive suffix

1. Birdie*

2. fussy

3. listless

4. approval

5. terrible

52. Define the word with diminutive suffix

1. Mummy*

2. affection

3. violence

4. hostile

5. dignity

53. Functional suffixes can be called

1. Endings*

2. prefixes

3. suffixes

4. idioms

5. set expressions

54. Inner form of the word is..

1. Meaning*

2. morphological structure

3. phraseology

4. syntax

5. grammar

55. Synchronic approach deals with

1. the vocabulary of a language as it exits at a given time*

2. its changes and development of a vocabulary in the coarse of time

3. with grammar

4. with phraseology

5. with sound forms

56. Denotative component is…

1. the leading semantic component*

2. additional semantic component

3. complied component

4. borrowed component

5. neutral component

57. Connotation is the...

    1. additional semantic component *

2. leading semantic component

3. complex component

4. borrowed component

5. neutral component

58. Descriptive lexicology deals with

1. the vocabulary of a given language at a given stage of its development*

2. the evolution of any vocabulary

3. general properties of word

4. description of the characteristic peculiarities in the words

5. the properties of the vocabulary of two or more languages

59. Syntagmatic relationships are studied by

1. means of contextual,distributional transformational types of analysis*

2. by means of word with relating means

3. by means of words with opposite meaning

4. comparison with other words

5. by phraseology

60. Etimology

1. studies the origin of words*

2. studies the meaning o the word

3. studies the compiling dictionaries

4. studies the set-expression

5. ways of formation of new words

61. Shortening is…

1. a signeficant subtraction of a word*

2. a common element of words

3. a derived word

4. blending

5. phraseological unit

62. Onomatopoeia

1. sound imitation*

2. morphological structure

3. grammatical meaning

4. conversion

5. back formation

63. Define the type of word-bulding in ‘Blue-eyed’

1. compound derivative*

2. root

3. derivative

4. compound

5. simple

64. A paradigm is

1. the system of grammatical forms characteristic of a word*

2. totality of words

3. word-group

4. synonimic dominant

5. neologism

65. Define the type of compound in ‘Heartache’

1. neutral compound*

2. morphological compound

3. syntactic compound

4. lexicalized phrase

5. affixation

66. Define the type of compound in ‘Forget-me-not’

1. lexicalized phrase*

2. neutral compound

3. morphological compound

4. affixation

5. no answer

67. Define the type of compound in ‘Lily-of-the-valley’

1. syntactic compound*

2. neutral compound

3. lexicalized phrase

4. morphological compound

5. affixation

68. Define the type of compound in ‘Statesman’

1. morphological compound*

2. syntactic compound

3. neutral compound

4. syntactic compound

5. affixation

69. Define the type of compound in ‘Ad’

1. Clipping*

2. blending

3. conversion

4. sound imitation

5. back formation

70. Define the type of the compound in ‘T-shirt’

1. contracted compound*

2. morphological compound

3. derivational compound

4. syntactic compound

5. nonce-word

71. Define the type of word-building in ‘water- to water’

1. Conversion*

2. reduplication

3. shortening

4. juxtoposion

5. reversion

72. Define simple neutral compound

1. Topcoat*

2. a glass-walled room

3. radio-equpped car

4. U-turn

5. hunting-knife

73. Define the simple neutral compound

1. waterproof *

2. lady-killer

3. thirty-foot-tall

4. watch-maker

5. gold-seekers

74. Define the simple neutral compound

1. Nightgown*

2. match-breaker

3. high-pitched voice

4. sportsman

5. forget-me-not

75. Define the simple neutral compound

1. Bookworm*

2. pain-killer

3. U-turn

4. dinning-room

5. two-seater

76. Define the simple neutral compound

1. Butterfly*

2. medium-sized

3. good-for-nothing

4. bread-and-butter

5. maid-of-all work

77. Define the simple neutral compound

1. Necklace*

2. V-day

3. bread-and-butter

4. pain-killer

5. radio-equpped car

78. Define a feminine suffix

1. –ess*

2. -less

3. -ness

4. -ette

5. -ful

79. Define a feminine suffix

1. –ine*

2. -ful

3. -less

4. -ness

5. -ful

80. Define a negative prefix

1. non*

2. re-

3. over

4. under

5. co-

81. Define a negative prefix

1. il- *

2. le-

3. over-

4. under

5. co-

82. Define the type of phraseological unit ‘as mad as a hatter’

1. phraseological fusion*

2. phraseological unity