Homophones are …

Identical in sound-form but different in spelling*

Identical in spelling but different in sound-form

Identical in spelling

Identical in sound form

All answers are correct

When two or more homonyms can originate from different meanings of the same word when, for some reason, the semantic structure of the word breaks into several parts, this type of formation of homonyms is called …

Split of polysemy*

Borrowing

Word-building

Synonyms

Antonyms

Define the word with final shortening

VAC*

Smog

Brunch

VIP

Motel

Word-formation …

Is an autonomous language mechanism which is used to make new words*

Deals with segmentation of words into morphemes

Origin of words

Combinability

Evolution of words

The morphemes which may occur alone and coincide with word-forms or immutable words are …

Free morphemes*

Bound morphemes

Mixed morphemes

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Functional morpheme

Affixation consists in …

Adding an affix to a stem*

Putting two stems together

Changing morphemes

All answers are correct

Sound imitation

A non-affixal type of word-building is …

Conversion*

Compounding

Blending

Clipping

All answers are correct

Define the acronym which is read as a word

FIFA*

CNN

VIP

CIS

USSR

Define the fine acronym with the alphabetic readings

WHO*

UNO

NATO

SALT

TEEL

Define the fine acronym with the alphabetic readings

IQ*

UNO

NATO

SALT

TEEL

Conversion is …

Formation of verbs or nouns from other parts of speech*

Formation of verbs

Formation of nouns

Componential analysis

Comparative analysis

Which of the phraseological units are completely non-motivated and usually stable?

Phraseological fusions*

Phraseological unities

Phraseological collocations\

Proverbs

Sayings

Volt

Metonymy*

Metaphor

Irony

Euphemism

Hybrid

Walt

Metonymy*

Metaphor

Irony

Euphemism

Hybrid

A variety of a language which prevails in a district, with local peculiarities of vocabulary, pronunciation and phrase is …

A dialect*

An accent

A term

Slang

Poetic words

British, American, Australian and Canadian English are …

Regional variants of standard language*

Local dialects

Slang

Jargon

Colloquial words

The science of dictionary-compiling is …

Lexicography*

Lexicology

Semantic

Etymology

Homonymy

Linguistic dictionaries deal with …

Lexical units*

Concepts

Phraseological units

Synonymy

Antonyms

Historical events, geographical names, names for diseases, plants, animals, institutions are included in …

Encyclopaedic dictionaries*

Linguistic dictionaries

Phraseological dictionaries

Dictionary of synonyms

Dictionary of antonyms

The dictionary giving the information in the same language is …

Monolingual*

Bilingual

Phraseological

Technical

Politecnical

The dictionaries containing units in one language and their equivalents in another are …

Translation dictionaries*

Explanatory dictionaries

Glossary

Encyclopedic

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Define the prefix which “very large”

Mega – *

Non-

Dis –

Un-

Dis-

Define the prefix which “above”

Over*

Pro-

Non-

Dis-

Mega-

Define the prefix which “false”

Pseudo –*

Poly-

Under

Vice

Pre-

Define the prefix which “in the place of”

Vice*

anti –

mal-

under –

co-

The main types of semantic transfer are …

Metaphor and metonymy*

Overstatement and understatement

Irony and enantiosis

Euphemism

Synonyms and antonyms

Metaphor is based on …