1. all the above mentioned cases*

2. native and borrowed words

3. Shortening

4. Conversion

5. euphemisms

231. The main types of dictionaries are

1. general and special*

2. general and etymological

3. special and multilingual

4. usage and slang dictionaries

5. general and ideographic

232. The following words hell, damn, shut up are

1. vulgarisms*

2. terms

3. dialectical words

4. slang

5. synonyms

233. An idiom is

1. an expression or phrase the meaning of which is different from the literal meanings of its components*

2. a free word-group

3. a proverb

4. a familiar quotation

5. a saying

234. Which of the following antonyms are derivational

1. careful – careless*

2. slow – fast

3. correct – incorrect – wrong

4. temporary- permanent

5. enemy – friend

235. Check for the line where all the words have American spelling

1. humor, theater, program, thru*

2. traveling, centre, color, offence

3. jewellery, woolen, favour meter

4. armour, although, fibre, monologue

5. telegramme, center, picturesque, favour

236. Word composition is a word-building process in which words are built

1. by joining two or more stem*s

2. by adding derivational affixes to stems

3. by means of changing the paradigm

4. by combining parts of two words

5. by clipping the beginning or the end of the word

237. Which of the following words are blendings

1. smog, brunch, clap*

2. beggar, to burgle, to edit

3. hanky, nighty, radar

4. M.P., USA, BBC

5. ping-pong, topsy-turvy, walkie-talkie

238. According to which word-formation way the Americanisms electronic, automaniac, Gerrymander were created

1. blending or telescoping*

2. Shortening

3. reduplication

4. compounding

5. back-formation

239. The word story is an example of

1. initial clipping*

2. final clipping

3. medial clipping

4. reduplication

5. sound interchange

240. 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

241. 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

242. 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

243. 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

244. Noun and substantive are

1. partial synonyms*

2. ideographic synonyms

3. stylistic synonyms

4. antonyms

5. total synonyms

245. 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

246. 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

247. (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

248. 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

249. 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

250. 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

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

1. American English*

2. Standard English

3. Cockney

4. Canadian English

5. Slang

252. Explanatory dictionary can also be called

1. unilingual dictionary*

2. bilingual dictionary

3. translation dictionary

4. glossary

5. encyclopedia

253. 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

254. 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

255. Form of functional words comprise

1. all this group*

2. auxiliary verbs

3. prepositions

4. conjunctions

5. relative adverbs

256. 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