13. Morphemes serving to make new words are called:

a) inflectional suffixes;

b) derivational suffixes;

c) allomorphs;

d) free morphemes.

14. State to what group of compounds belong the following words: bigwig, blackmouth, greenhorn

a) exocentric compound;

b) endocentric compound;

c) bahuvrihi group;

d) ablaut combination.

15. Paronyms are:

1. Two or more words of the same language belonging to same part of speech, identical in style, associated and often used together so that their denotative meanings render contradictory or contrary notions;

2. Words that are kindred in origin, sound and meaning and therefore liable to be mixed but in fact different in meaning and usage and therefore only mistakenly interchanged;

3. Two or more words of the same language, belonging to the same part of speech and possessing one or more identical or nearly identical denotational meanings, interchangeable, at least in some context ;

4. Words of the same sound but different spelling and meaning.

16. State in what respect the following synonyms differ: begin, commence, start

1. do not differ;

2. in shades of meaning;

3. in context;

4. in style.

17. Absolute antonyms are also called

a) total antonyms;

b) root antonyms;

c) derivational antonyms;

d) perfect antonyms.

18. To what group of synonyms belong the following: father, dad, parent

a) contextual;

b) stylistic;

c) relative;

d) absolute.

19. The following pairs of words : soul – sole, court – caught, sun –son belong to:

a) synomyms.

b) perfect homonyms ;

c) homographs;

d) homophones

20. What is the structural type of the following words : bald-headed, ill-mannered, three-coloured, long-legged:

a) derived;

b) compounds;

c) derivational compounds;

d) simple.

21. Morpheme clued in the words conclude, occlude, include, preclude is:

a) free morpheme;

b) bound morpheme;

c) positional variant of morpheme;

d) allomorph.

22. Type of word-formation, when new words are produced in the same part of speech is called :

a) shortening;

b) conversation;

c) blending;

d) sound-imitation.

23.The following fords : brunch, smog, slanguage, radiotrition are made by means of:

a) clipping;

b) blending;

c) abbreviation;

d) conversion.

24. The following words: fan, cap, exam, lab, doc are formed by means of:

a) apocope;

b) syncope;

c) aphaeresis;

d) apocope an aphaeresis combined.

25. The process when a word of wide meaning acquires a narrower sense , in which it is applicable only to some of the objects which it previously denoted is called

a) extension;

b) narrowing;

c) degradation;

d)elevation.

26. Stock-phrases which differ so much from the natural meanings to be gathered from the component words that their meaning can never be derived as a whole from the conjoined meanings of its elements are called

a) standardized phrases;

b) phraseological unities;

c) ) phraseological fusions or iron-cast idioms;

d) set expressions.

27. Two or more words of the same language belonging to same part of speech, identical in style, associated and often used together so that their denotative meanings render contradictory or contrary notions are called:

a) antonyms;

b) synonyms;

c) homonyms;

d) paronyms.

28 . Choose the word which is the antonym of the word given: industrious

a) floppy;

b) lazy;

c) hard-working;

d) joyful.

29. The following pairs of words : minute (n) – minute (adj); baw (v) – baw(n) belong to:

a) homophones ;

b) perfect homonyms ;

c)homographs;

4. synonyms.

30. Lexicography is:

a) a science about lexical units in the language;

b) a science of compiling dictionaries;

c) a science about word-building;

d) a science of correct writing words .