1. familiar quotation*

2. cliche

3. proverb

4. idiom

5. Free phrase

272. Isotope is a

1. neologism*

2. historism

3. common colloquial word

4. jargonism

5. vulgarism

273. Complete the following idiom of comparison as busy as

1. a bee*

2. a mouse

3. a frog

4. a dove

5. an ant

274. Red tapes, mare’s nest are

1. phraseological fusions*

2. phraseological unities

3. phraseological combinations

4. proverbs

5. familiar quotations

275. Which of the following words contain demunitive suffixes

1. booklet, hanky*

2. heroine, actress

3. poetic, picturesque

4. cloudy, girlish

5. funny, sunny

276. What is the meaning of -scribe in the words transcribe, subscribe, describe,

inscribe

1. write*

2. read

3. spell

4. say

5. print

277. An infix is

1. an affix placed wthin the word*

2. a derivational morpheme proceeding the root

3. a derivational morpheme following the stem

4. a common element of words within a word-family

5. a combining form

278. The word exam is a cause of

1. clipping*

2. blending

3. back-formation

4. sound-interchange

5. onomatopoeia

279. Grammatical meaning is

1. the meaning proper to sets of word-forms common to all words of a certain class*

2. the meaning proper to the given linguistic unit in all its forms and distributions

3. the component of the lexical meaning that makes communication possible

4. the connotational meaning

5. the denotational meaning

280. An exaggerated statement not meant to be understood literally but expressing

an intensely emotional attitude of the speaker to what he is speaking about is

called

1. hyperbole*

2. exaggeration

3. irony

4. Metaphor

5. litotes

281. Seal – to seal are

1. lexical homonyms*

2. lexico-grammatical homonyms

3. grammatical homonyms

4. morphological homonyms

5. phonetical homonyms

282. Phraseological units differ from free word-group in

1. their reproducibility in speech, idiomaticity and structural stability*

2. their reproducibility in speech and structural variability

3. their reproducibility in speech and usability in the direct sense

4. their ability to function as independent units of communication

5. their ability to function as word-equivalents

283. Which of the following phraseological units are synonymous

1. through thin and thin, by hook or by crook, for love or money*

2. in the soup, in the pink, under a cloud

3. to show one’s cards, to look through one’s fingers, to show the white feather

4. to take the bull by the horns, to wear one’s heart on one’s sleeve, to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs

5. to wash one’s dirty linen in public, jack in the box, Jack of all trades

284. The word unmistakable has constituents originated from

1. 3 languages *

2. 4 languages

3. 2 languages

4. 1 languages

5. 5 languages

285. The words pacifist, innocence, cordial have

1. a bound stem *

2. a free stem

3. a semi-bound stem

4. a semi-free stem

5. a compound stem

286. The morphemic analysis applies the method of

1. UC’s*

2. AMP

3. statistical analysis

4. structural analysis

5. etymological analysis

287. Functional affixes

1. convey grammatical meaning*

2. form different words

3. provide the structural completeness of a word-group

4. convey emotional components of meaning

5. form blendings

288. What is blending

1. telescoping, reduplication*

2. sound and stress interchange

3. back-formation

4. sound imitation

5. affixation

289. The words lab and laboratory are different in

1. structure*

2. stylistics

3. meaning

4. affixation

5. derivation

290. Adding derivational affixes to stem is called

1. affixation*

2. acronym

3. abbreviation

4. reduplication

5. sound interchange

291. Dictionaries of American English are

1. specialized dictionaries*

2. explanatory dictionaries

3. etymological dictionaries

4. general dictionaries

5. dictionaries of synonyms

292. A metaphor is

1. a transfer of name based on the association of similarity *

2. a transfer based upon the association of contiguity

3. a shift of names between things that are known to be in some way or other

connected to reality

4. degradation of meaning

5. amelioration of meaning

293. Which of the following words is the cause of a metaphor

1. the bonnet of the car*

2. the Pentagon

3. to kick the bucket

4. at all

5. tick-tack

294. A term is

1. a peculiar type of word or word combination expressing a definite connection*

2. a preposition

3. a proverb

4. a conjunction

5. slang

295. To lose one’s life is a (an)