Ideographic synonyms are

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Glossaries are

# unilingual books that give definitions of terms;

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Which of the following words are homophones?

# night (n) – knight (n);

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-er, -dom, -ness, -ation are

# noun-forming suffixes;

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A proverbs is

# a short familiar saying expressing some well-known truth;

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Morphemes occur as

# constituents of sentences;

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«Has been» in the following sentence «She had to be satisfied with the role of a has been» is the result of

# conversion;

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Which of the following antonyms are mixed antonyms?

# active - passive - inactive;

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Sound imitation, reduplication, clipping, abbreviation are

# minor types of word making;

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Affixation is the formation of words

# by adding derivational affixes to stems;

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A list of words in which the entry words are arranged in alphabetical order starting with their final letters are

# reverse dictionaries;

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What are derivational compounds?

# compound words that have affixes;

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Which of the following pairs of words has the verb derived from the noun?

# a monkey - to monkey;

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Jargonisms are

# words used within a particular social group and bearing a secret and cryptic character;

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What are antonyms?

# words different in sound-form and characterized by semantic polarity of denotational meaning;

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Structurally morphemes fall into

# free, semi-free, bound, semi-bound morphemes;

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Check for the type of word-formation in the following words: UNO, NATO, laser, radar

# shortening;

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What are compound words?

# words consisting of at least two stems which occur in the language as free forms;

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Absolute (or complete synonyms are:

# words coinciding in all their shades of meaning and in all their stylistic characteristics;

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What is motivation?

# the connection between the structural pattern of the word and its meaning;

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"head of a cabbage" is

# a metaphor;

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What are homonyms?

# words identical in their sound -form or in graphic form or in both, but different in meaning;

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Which of the these proverbs expresses best the idea of the following situation?

"Very soon after his father's death Mike's mother died and he became an orphan."

# It never rains but it pours.

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Classification of phraseological units cannot be based on

# only on the structural principle;

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“To be like a bull in a china shop” means

# to be a careless, clumsy person who may cause damage through lack of skill or care;

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Words borrowed from one language into several other languages are called

# international;

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The following words pyjamas, khaki, mango, bungalow which became international came from

# India

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An exaggerated statement not meant to be understood literally but expressing an intensely emotional attitude of the speaker to what he is speaking about is called

# hyperbole;

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Which of the following words are native English?

# empty, ask, belly;

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Which of the following suffixes are of Greek origin?

# -ist, -ism, -ite;

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Which of the following phraseological units is a phraseological collocation?

# to bear malice;

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Which of the following phraseological units is not motivated?

# hot dog;

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Which of the following words is the case of an initial clipping?

# story, phone, cello;

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What is the meaning of "-scribe" in the words "transcribe, subscribe, describe, inscribe"?

# write;

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What does the native element of the English vocabulary consist of?

# Indo-European and Germanic elements;

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Define the type of the compound word “good-for-nothing”:

# morphological

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Complete the simily “as graceful as a…”

# swan

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Define the etymology of the word “kindergarten”

# German

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Complete the comparison “to swear like a …”

# sailor

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Define the nature of the semantic change in “diesel”:

# metonymy

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Define the nature of the semantic change in “the teeth of a saw”:

# metaphor

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Define the type of word-building in the word “lady-killer”:

# composition

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Define the type of word-building in the word “a find”:

# conversion

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Define the type of informal word “pal”:

# colloquial

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Define the type of the borrowing “phenomenon”:

# loan proper

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Define the type of the phraseological unit “to meet the necessity”

# phraseological combination

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Define the type of informal word “thou”:

# archaic

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Complete the simily “as cunning as a …”

# fox

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Complete the simily “as wise as an …”

#owl

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Complete the simily “as gentle as a …”

#dove

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Complete the simily “as red as a …”

#beetroot

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Complete the simily “as fat as a …”

#pig

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Complete the comparison “to get along like a …”

#million dollars

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Give a homonym to “hair”

#hare

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Give a homonym to “higher”

#hire

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Define the etymology of the word “ballet”

#French

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Define the etymology of the word “major”

#Latin

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Define the etymology of the word “blitzkrieg”

#German

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Define the etymology of the word “bronco”

#Spanish

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Conversion is a word-building process in which words are built

#by means of changing the paradigm;

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The synonyms of the word “to look“ are..

# to stare, to gaze

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Metaphor is a transfer of name based on

# the association of similarity;

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Which of the following synonymic groups belong to total (complete or absolute synonymy?

#functional affix, inflection, flexion;

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Which of these nouns are derived from verbs?

#a break, a catch, a jump;

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Compound derivatives contain

# not less than two free morphemes and one bound morpheme;

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Sources of synonyms are

# all the above mentioned cases;

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Phraseology studies

# free word-combinations and phraseological units:

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Check for the synonyms to the word «to look»

# to see, to gaze, to blame;

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What common element do the words cities, tables, relations have?

# the grammatical meaning of plurality.

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The component of meaning recurrent in identical sets of individual forms of different words is …..

# grammatical meaning

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The component of meaning proper to the word as a linguistic unit is…..

# lexical meaning

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The component of the lexical meaning which makes communication possible is …….

# denotational meaning

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One of the objective semantic features proper to words as linguistic unit and forms part of the connotational component of meaning. It is……

# emotive charge

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The smallest two-facet language unit possessing path sound-form and meaning is…. .

# the morpheme

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The semantic component that serves to distinguish one word from all others containing identical morphemes is ….

# differential meaning

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The main criterion in morphological motivation is …. .

# relationship between morphemes

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Morphological motivation is …..

# relative

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A direct connection between the phonetically structure of the word and its meaning is. .

# phonetical motivation

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The relationship between the central and the coexisting meaning of a word is … .

# semantic motivation

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Change of meaning is effected through association between …… .

# the existing meaning and the new

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The factors causing semantic changes may be subdivided into …. .

# extra –linguistic and linguistic

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Monosemantic word are word having …

# one meaning

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If polysemy viewed a word may retain its previous meaning or meanings and at the same time acquire one or several new ones.

# diachronically

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The following words ‘dormitory, fall, elevator, apartment’ are typical for …

# American English;

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Red tape, mare's nest are …

# phraseological fusions;

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Which of the following words have derived stems?

# beautiful, girlish, activate;

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Varieties of the English language peculiar to some districts and having no normalized literary form are….

#local dialects;

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The words ‘glamour, kilt, raid,’ came into English from …

# the Scottish dialect;

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Which of the following words is the case of a metaphor?

# the bonnet of the car;

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Which of the following homonyms are partial?

# match (n) -match (v);

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Which of the given words stand for the American variant of the word “flat”?

# apartment;

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Which of the following words are homonyms proper?

# bank (n) – bank (n)

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Dictionaries of toponyms are

# special dictionaries;

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Metaphor is a transfer of name based on …

# the association of similarity;

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Which of the following synonymic groups belong to total (complete or absolute synonymy?

# functional affix, inflection, flexion;

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Homographs are

# words identical in spelling, but different both in their sound-form and meaning;

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Which of these nouns are derived from verbs?

# a break, a catch, a jump;

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Compound derivatives contain

# not less than two free morphemes and one bound morpheme;

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Sources of synonyms are

# all the above mentioned cases;

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Phraseology studies

# free word-combinations and phraseological units

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Check for the synonyms to the word «to look»

# to see, to gaze, to blame;

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Concept is …..

# a category of human cognition.

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Meaning comprises ….

# the interrelation of linguistic signs with categories and phenomena outside the scope of language

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The functional approach maintains that the meaning of a linguistic unit may be studied through …..

# its relation to other linguistic units

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Word meaning is ……

# homogeneous

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The component of meaning recurrent in identical sets of individual forms of different words is …..

# grammatical meaning

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The component of meaning proper to the word as a linguistic unit is…..

# lexical meaning

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The component of the lexical meaning which makes communication possible is …

# denotational meaning

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One of the objective semantic features proper to words as linguistic unit and forms part of the connotational component of meaning. It is …

# emotive charge

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The smallest two-facet language unit possessing path sound-form and meaning is ….

# the morpheme

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The semantic component that serves to distinguish one word from all others containing identical morphemes is ….

# differential meaning

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The main criterion in morphological motivation is ….

# relationship between morphemes

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Morphological motivation is ….

# relative

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A direct connection between the phonetically structure of the word and its meaning is …

# phonetical motivation

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The relationship between the central and the coexisting meaning of a word is … .

# semantic motivation

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Change of meaning is effected through association between …… .

# the existing meaning and the new one

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The factors causing semantic changes may be subdivided into …. .

# extra –linguistic and linguistic

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Monosemantic word are word having

# one meaning

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