1. Blending*

2. Clipping

3. Acronym

4. Conversion

5. Euphemism

507. Blending

1. Telescoping*

2. Neologisms

3. Clipping

4. Acronym

5. Euphemism

507. Words “buffer, ballet”

1. Not associated graphically*

2. Not associated phonetically

3. Not associated semantically

4. Barbarism

5. All answers are correct

507. The word “refugee” is

1. Derived*

2. Compound

3. Blending

4. Clipping

5. Acronym

507. Rhyming slang

1. Cockney*

2. Term

3. Jargon

4. Colloquial words

5. Poetic diction

507. Empty words

1. Form words*

2. Notional words

3. Historisms

4. Jargon

5. slang

507. Auxiliaries

1. Form words*

2. Notional words

3. Historisms

4. Jargon

5. slang

507. Echoism

1. Onomatopoeia*

2. Sound interchange

3. Affixation

4. Conversion

5. Clipping

507. Unassimilated borrowings

1. Barbarisms*

2. Neologisms

3. Clipping

4. Conversion

5. Antonyms

507. Mon cher

1. Barbarism*

2. Euphemism

3. Clipping

4. Neologism

5. Conversion

507. Tête – a – tête

1. Barbarism*

2. Euphemism

3. Clipping

4. Neologism

5. Conversion

507. Compounds whose components are placed in the order that contradicts the rules of English syntax (N+A)

1. Asyntactical compounds*

2. Syntactical compounds

3. Etymological doublets

4. Euphemisms

5. Clipping

507. Snow – white

1. Asyntactical compound*

2. Syntactical compound

3. Etymological doublets

4. Euphemisms

5. Clipping

507. Compounds whose compounds are placed in the order that conforms to the rules of modern English syntax?

A) Syntactical compound*

B) Asyntactical compound

C) Etymological doublets

D) Euphemisms

E) Clipping

507. The process reverse to specialization is

1. Generalization*

2. Metonymy

3. Metaphor

4. Amelioration

5. Elevation

507. Define the prefix which means “again”

1. Re-*

2. Hyper-

3. Pro-

4. Pre-

5. Co-

507. The words VIP, USSA, I2 are cases of

1. Acronyms*

2. Blending

3. Clipping

4. Conversion

5. Sound imitation

507. The author of the main American dictionary is…

1. N.Webster*

2. Muller

3. Smith

4. Coonin

5. Johnson

507. Define substantive phraseological units

1. The root of the trouble*

2. To rack one’s brain

3. From head to heels

4. To snap one’s fingers

5. To learn by heart

507. Define substantive phraseological units

1. A skeleton in the cupboard*

2. As good as gold

3. Once in a blue moon

4. To learn by heart

5. As cool as a cucumber

507. Define substantive phraseological units

1. Athorn in the flash*

2. As good as gold

3. Once in a blue moon

4. To learn by heart

5. As cool as a cucumber

507. Define verbal phrasal units

1. To take the bullet by the horns*

2. The root of the trouble

3. Once in a blue moon

4. A skeleton in the cupboard

5. As cool as a cucumber

507. Define adjective phrasal units

1. As blind as a bat*

2. To learn by heart

3. To take the bullet by the horns

4. To rack one’s brain

5. To snap one’s finger

507. Define adverbial phrasal units

1. From heard to heels*

2. As good as gold

3. The root of the trouble

4. To learn by heart

5. To take the bullet by the horns

507. Define the phrasal fusion

1. On shank’s make*

2. To be in one’s shoes

3. To stick to one’s ground

4. Like a dog in a manger

5. Like a cat round hot milk

507. Define the phrasal fusion

1. Dead as a doornail*

2. To be in one’s shoes

3. To stick to one’s ground

4. Like a dog in a manger

5. Like a cat round hot milk

507. Define the phrasal combination

1. To meet a demand*

2. As dead as a doornail

3. On shank’s mare

4. Red tape

5. A mare’s nest

507. Never … till tomorrow that you can do today

1. Put off*

2. Put on

3. Put over

4. Put above

5. Put down

507. Better late than …..

1. Never*

2. Always

3. Ever

4. Just now

5. Usually

507. Actions speak louder than …..

1. Words*

2. Phrases

3. Proverbs

4. Sentences

5. Texts

507. As busy as a …

1. Bee*

2. Tortures

3. Cat

4. Dog

5. Kitten

507. As brave as a …

1. Lion*

2. Dog

3. Tiger

4. Cow

5. Bull

507. Lost time is never found …

1. Again*

2. Always

3. Never

4. Usually

5. Actually

507. A stereotyped expression a trite phrase that has lost precise meaning through iteration

1. Chliché*

2. Euphemism

3. Slang

4. Jargon

5. Term

507. Spoken English

1. Colloquial*

2. Slang

3. Dialectism

4. Term

5. Euphemism

507. Local variation of Standard English

1. Dialect*

2. Colloquial

3. Slang

4. Term

5. Euphemism

507. Buzz, cuchoo, bang, hiss are coses of

1. Onomatopoeia*

2. Affixation

3. Conversion

4. Blending

5. Clipping

507. Every cloud has a silver …

1. Lining*

2. Naming

3. Setting

4. Fighting

5. Smiling

507. The material meaning of a word

1. Lexical*

2. Grammatical

3. Phonetical

4. Etymological

5. Morphological

507. The meaning of the formal membership of a word expresses by the word’s form

1. Grammatical*

2. Logical

3. Dictionary

4. Lexical

5. Phonetical

507. The part of a word which remains unchanged throughout its paradigm

1. Stem*

2. Prefix

3. Suffix

4. Ending

5. All answers are correct

507. The existence within one word of only one meaning

1. Monosemy*

2. Polysemy

3. Homonymy

4. Synonyms

5. Antonyms

507. Give adjective of Latin origin mouth

1. Oral*

2. Nosal

3. Urban

4. Rural

5. Solar

507. Give adjective of Latin origin side

1. Lateral*

2. Solar

3. Maternal

4. Paternal

5. Urban

507. Give adjective of Latin origin sight

1. Visual*

2. Filial

3. Urban

4. Rural

5. Solar

507. Give adjective of Latin origin year

1. Annual*

2. Feminine

3. Fraternal

4. Urban

5. Rural

507. Define the neutral derived compound

1. Honey – mooner*

2. Pick – pochet

3. Dragon fly

4. R-day

5. U-turn

507. Define the contracted compound

1. V – day*

2. Brunch

3. Smog

4. AIDS

5. Prof

507. Which contractions is pronounced as a word

1. UNO*

2. VIP

3. CNN

4. CEO

5. CIS

507. Define the language from what the word is borrowed “coup d’état”

1. French*

2. German

3. Italian

4. Russian

5. Latin

507. Define the language from what the word is borrowed “Blitzkrieg”

1. German*

2. French

3. Italian

4. Russian

5. Latin

507. Define the language from what the word is borrowed “kindergarten”

1. German*

2. French

3. Italian

4. Russian

5. Latin

507. Define fully assimilated word

1. Skin*

2. Buffet

3. Restaurant

4. Phenomenon

5. Ballet

507. Define fully assimilated word

1. Wine*

2. Garage

3. Buffet

4. Denoument

5. Police

507. Define partially assimilated word

1. Garage*

2. Skin

3. Tete-a-tete

4. Large

5. Beet

507. Define clipping

1. Tec*

2. H – bomb

3. VIP

4. NATO

5. CNN

507. I have never read Balzac in the original

1. Metonymy*

2. Metaphor

3. Irony

4. Onomatopoeia

5. Euphemism

507. My sister is fond of old China

1. Metonymy*

2. Metaphor

3. Irony

4. Euphemism

5. Synonymy

507. Find synonym to “policeman”

1. Cop*

2. Tailor

3. Master

4. Proprietor

5. Boss

507. Find synonym to “master”

1. Owner*

2. Officer

3. Employer

4. Employee

5. Bobby

507. Find synonym to “manufacture”

A) Fabricame*

B) Employ

C) Hire

D) Fire

E) Built

507. Find synonym to “residence”

1. House*

2. Labourer

3. Maintenance

4. Discord

5. Discount

507. Fine synonym to “worker”

1. Labourer*

2. Bobby

3. Cop

4. Refugee

5. Employer

507. Define the synonym to “desktop”

1. Laptop*

2. Pillow

3. Cushion

4. Mirror

5. Vent

507. Define the synonym to “fireplace”

1. Mantelpiece*

2. Laptop

3. Cushion

4. Refugee

5. Landscape

507. Define the synonym to “private”

1. Personal*

2. Readable

3. Eatable

4. Fragile

5. Fantastic

507. Words originating from the same etymological source but differing in phonemic shape and in meaning

1. Etymological doublets*

2. Jargons

3. Translation loans

4. Euphemisms

5. All answers are correct

507. Affixational morphemes include …

1. Suffixes and prefixes*

2. Roots and suffixes

3. Roots and prefixes

4. Endings

5. Functional affixes

507. The lexical nucleus of the word is ….. morpheme

1. Root*

2. Functional

3. Derivational

4. Endings

5. Euphemisms

507. The word which consists only of one root morpheme is …..

1. Root word*

2. Derived

3. Compound

4. Compound – derived

5. Euphemism

507. …. Morphemes can function independently

1. Free*

2. Bounded

3. Derivational

4. Functional

5. Endings

507. Pig – headed

1. Compound derivative*

2. Root

3. Derivative

4. Radicals

5. Compound

507. …. is a productive way of word – formation

1. Affixation*

2. Sound – imitation

3. Back – formation

4. Sound – interchange

5. All answers are correct

507. Define prefix denoting space, time

1. Pre-*

2. Mis-

3. Un-

4. Il-

5. Ir

507. Who was the author of the classification of the phraseological units based on the semantic principles

1. Vinogradov*

2. Smith

3. Coonin

4. Arnold

5. Antrushina

507. Phraseological fusions are …

1. Non – motivated*

2. Motivated

3. Simple

4. Calque

5. Euphemisms

507. Define phraseological units functioning like verbs

1. To take advantage*

2. Baby’s man

3. Cat’s paw

4. Red tape

5. To and fro

507. Define phraseological units functioning like adjectives

1. Tooth and nail*

2. To take advantage

3. Baby’s man

4. Cat’s paw

5. Red tape

507. Define phraseological units functioning like adverbs

1. By heart*

2. To take advantage

3. Baby’s man

4. Cat’s paw

5. Red tape

507. Father, mother belong to

1. Indo – European stock*

2. German stock

3. Dutch

4. Russian

5. French

808. Define the type of composition in the word ‘son-in-law’

1. Syntactic*

2. morphological

3. neutral

4. conversion

5. affixation

808. The smallest meaningful language unit

1. Morpheme*

2. word

3. set expression

4. free phrase

5. idiom

808. The main way of enriching vocabulary

1. word-building*

2. word-structure

3. metaphor

4. metonymy

5. phoneme

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

1. Affixation*

2. metophor

3. metonymy

4. phenomenon

5. word-stock

808. Define the origin of the word ‘opera’

1. Italian*

2. German

3. Latin

4. Greak

5. Russian

808. Define the origin of the word ‘steppe’

1. Russian *

2. Latin

3. French

4. German

5. Italian

808. 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

808. Define the type of borrowing ‘solar’

1. Latin*

2. French

3. German

4. Spanish

5. Russian

808. Complete the simile ‘as busy as …’

1. bee *

2. horse

3. dog

4. plane

5. cat

808. Give homophone to ‘fare’

1. Fair*

2. fear

3. fiber

4. fire

5. feint

808. Give homophone to ‘hear’

1. here *

2. hire

3. hare

4. harm

5. herd

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

1. Affixation*

2. conversion

3. sound-imitation

4. shortening

5. back formation

808. Define a feminine suffix

1. –ess*

2. -er

3. -ness

4. -less

5. -ful

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

1. neutral *

2. morphological

3. syntactic

4. conversion

E) sound-imitation

822. What is polysemy

1. the existence within one word of several connected meanings*

2. the ability of words to coincide in their sound forms

3. the existence of contrastive meanings within a word

4. the existence of only one meaning within words

5. words with opposite meanings

823. Homographs are

1. words identical in spelling, but different both in their sound-form and meaning*

2. words identical in sound-form, but different both in spelling and in meaning

3. words identical in sound-form, but different in meaning

4. words identical in meaning, but different in spelling

5. words identical in spelling and sound-form meaning, but different in meaning

824. A Don Juan, the foot of the bed, bookworm, the head of the school are cases of

1. a metaphor*

2. a metonymy

3. a euphemism

4. an irony

5. litotes

825. Which of the following synonymic group belong to total (complete or absolute) synonymy

1. functional affix, inflection, flexion*

2. pretty, handsome, beautiful

3. to eat, to partake , to peck

4. capable, skillful, qualified

5. companion, friend, associate

826. Noun and substantive are

1. partial synonyms*

2. ideographic synonyms

3. stylistic synonyms

4. antonyms

5. total synonyms

827. The following definition “coal is a black, hard substance that burns and gives off heat” is an entry form

1. a descriptive dictionary*

2. a pronunciation dictionary

3. a bilingual dictionary

4. a dictionary of pronunciation

5. an etymological dictionary

828. Free word-groups are

1. words put together to form lexical units*

2. stereotyped or unchangeable set expressions

3. phraseological fusions

4. phraseological colloquialisms

5. phraseological unities

829. (to be) like a bull in a china shop means

1. to be a careless, clumsy person who may cause damage through lack of skill or care*

2. to be a cause of danger

3. to be an insensitive, crude person

4. to feel very proud and happy about something

5. to feel uncomfortable, ill at ease in one’s surroundings situation

830. Which of the following phraseological units is not motivated

1. hot dog*

2. bear a grudge

3. bear malice

4. take a linking

5. to show one’s teeth

831. 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

832. What is Cockney

1. one of the best known southern dialects (the regional dialect of London)*

2. the British Standard English

3. the Scottish variant of English

4. an artificial language

5. the Irish dialect

833. The following words dormitory, fall, elevator, apartment are typical for

1. American English*

2. Standard English

3. Cockney

4. Canadian English

5. Slang

834. Explanatory dictionary can also be called

1. unilingual dictionary*

2. bilingual dictionary

3. translation dictionary

4. glossary

5. encyclopedia

835. A Prefix is

1. derivational morpheme preceding the root*

2. a derivational morpheme following the stem

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

4. an affix placed within the word

5. a combining form

836. Which of these nouns are derived from verbs

1. a break, a catch, a jump*

2. a pain, a tramp, a button

3. a pen, a weekend, a drink

4. a cook, a button, a monkey

5. a fall, a windglass, an act

837. Form of functional words comprise

1. all this group*

2. auxiliary verbs

3. prepositions

4. conjunctions

5. relative adverbs

839. What are homonyms

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

2. words with identical sound and graphic forms

3. words differing in their morphemic structure but coinciding in their sound-form

4. words coinciding in some shades of meaning

5. words with opposite meanings