1. compounding*

2. Shortening

3. Conversion

4. blending

5. back-formation

325. Stylistic synonyms are

1. two words having the same denotational meaning but differing in stylistic connotation*

2. words which differ in shades of meaning

3. words which differ in connotations

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

5. words which differ in their morphemic structure but coinciding in their sound-form

326. Head of cabbage is

1. a metaphor*

2. a metonymy

3. a saying

4. a euphemism

5. a proverb

327. Synonyms for the word to hope is

1. to expect, to look forward, to anticipate*

2. to look forward, to sway, to puff

3. to wait, to plague, to anticipate

4. to appeal, to sway, to look forward

5. to controvert, to contradict, to glare

328. Taboo is the main cause of such a linguistic phenomenon as a (an)

1. euphemism*

2. idiom

3. hybrid

4. etymological doublet

5. Metonymy

329. Which of the following sound-imitative words are interjections

1. bang!, bush!, pooh!*

2. purr, mew, cock-a-doodle-do

3. quack, moo, buzz

4. hiss, gibber, bray

5. clash, crash, whip

340. Red flower is a (an)

1. free word-group*

2. set phrase

3. idiom

4. phraseological unit

5. word-equivalent

341. The stem of root or morpheme words contains

1. one free morpheme*

2. not less than two morphemes of which at least one is bound

3. not less than two free morphemes

4. not less than two free morphemes and one bound morpheme

5. a group of words

342. Prefixes mis-, mal-, pseudo- are

1. perjorative*

2. negative

3. privative

4. locative

5. prefixes of time and order

343. According to the structure the words: fridge, pub, tech, USA, exam are

1. shortened*

2. simple

3. compound

4. derived

5. blendings

344. The underlined words in the following sentences: “How often do you milk the cows?”, “Restaurants in all large cities have ups and downs.” “He began to nose about like an old bloodhound.” are cases of

1. conversion *

2. allusion

3. cliché

4. metaphor

5. euphemism

345. The words TV, T.B. are cases of

1. abbreviation*

2. clipping

3. blending

4. back-formation

5. sound interchange

346. What kind of clipping in the word “math”

1. media clipping *

2. final clipping

3. initial clipping

4. reduplication

5. sound interchange

347. Metonymy is based on

1. contiguity of meaning*

2. harrowing of meaning

3. pejoration of meaning

4. amelioration of meaning

5. extention of meaning

348. Check for the case of a hyperbole in the following

1. thousand pardons *

2. the White House

3. mother tongue

4. the leg of the table

5. grass green

349. Dictionaries of toponyms are

1. special dictionaries *

2. general

3. dictionaries of the most difficult words

4. dictionaries of frequency

5. explanatory dictionaries

350. Which of the following line has words belonging to terminology

1. telegraph, antibiotic, radar, metaphor *

2. lovely, beautiful, colorful, handsome

3. a book, a shop, a suite, a street

4. to go to bed, to get up, to have breakfast, to clean

5. three, above, are, far, straight

351. The synonymic dominant in series of leave, depart, quit, retire, clear out is

1. leave *

2. depart

3. quit

4. retire

5. clear out

352. A proverb is

1. a saying expressing some well-known truth*

2. a familiar quotation

3. a free word-group

4. a verb-adverb combination

5. a traditional compound

353. Complete the following idiom as sly as

1. a fox*

2. a cat

3. a cock

4. a mouse

5. an owl

354. Hybrids are

1. words made up of affixes from two or more different languages*

2. idiomatic compounds

3. removal of all functional and derivational elements

4. words which are made after existing patterns

5. the smallest meaningful units

355. Lass, Kirk are examples of

1. vulgarism*

2. slang

3. common colloquial words

4. dialectical words

5. jargonism

356. Structural morphemes fall into

1. free, semi-free, bound, semi-bound, morphemes*

2. root morphemes

3. stem morphemes

4. prefixational morphemes

5. suffixational morphemes

357. Friend is a

1. free morpheme*

2. bound morpheme

3. semi-free morpheme

4. semi-bound morpheme

5. morphol

358. Sound imitation is

1. the meaning of an action or thing by a more or less exact reproduction of a sound association with it*

2. the derivation of new words by subtraction of real or supposed affix from existing words

3. opposition of words or word-forms

4. lexical abbreviations

5. reduction of a word to one of its parts

359. What is the denotational meaning

1. the component of the lexical meaning which makes communication possible*

2. the component of meaning that considers emotive charge and stylistic reference of words

3. the component of meaning that distinguishes one word from all others containing identical morphemes

4. the component of meaning recurrent in identical sets of individual forms of different words

5. the connotational meaning

360. Euphemism is

1. the substitution of unpleasant words by mild ones*

2. a taboo

3. an irony

4. an ellipsis

5. litotes

361. Metaphor is a transfer of name based on

1. the association of similarity*

2. contiguity of meaning

3. pejoration of meaning

4. amelioration of meaning

5. extention of meaning

362. Jargonisms are

1. words used within a particular social group and bearing a secret and cryptic character*

2. common colloquial words

3. professionalisms

4. vulgarisms

5. barbarisms

363. Words jersey, pullover are

1. international words*

2. slang words

3. neologisms

4. obsolete words

5. terms

364. Which of the following statements is the distinctive feature of proverbs

1. proverbs function as independent units of communication*

2. proverbs are neither parts of statement, nor do they stand for the whole statement

3. proverbs are completely non-motivated

4. proverbs function as word-equivalents

5. proverbs function as word-groups

365. Complete the simile: as brave as a….

A) lion*

B) fox

C) donkey

D) cow

E) bull

366. The words “pipe of peace”, “pale face” were borrowed from

1. Indian language*

2. Latin language

3. Greek language

4. French language

5. Japanese language

367. The words pyjamas, khaki, mango, bungalow which became international come from

1. India*

2. New Zealand

3. Australia

4. Canada

5. the USA

368. What is polyglot?

1. multilingual dictionary*

2. glossary

3. specialized dictionary

4. encyclopedia

5. bilingual dictionary

369. The root of the word is

1. the basic part of a word which affixes are added*

2. the basic unit of a language

3. a derivational affix

4. a grammatical paradigm

5. a derived stem

370. Affixation, word-composition and conversion are

1. principle and productive ways of forming new words*

2. non-productive ways of word-formation

3. minor types of word-building

4. morphosyntactically conditioned combinability of words

5. word-building patterns

371. Which of the following parts of words has the verb derived from the noun

1. a monkey – to monkey*

2. a peel – to peel

3. a help – to help

4. a tramp – to tramp

5. a jump – to jump

372. Which of the following is a minor way of word-formation