L. T. Kilevaya Doctor of Philological Sciences, Docent

№18. What is polysemy?

1. 
   the ability of words to coincide in their sound form
   
2. 
   the existence of contrastive meanings within a word
   
3. 
   the existence within one word of several connected meanings as the result of the development and changes of its original meaning
   
4. 
   words with opposite meanings
   
5. 
   the existence of only one meaning within words
   

№19. Words are the same in spelling but different in sound is called …

1. 
   homographs
   
2. 
   homonyms proper
   
3. 
   homophones
   
4. 
   complete homonyms.
   
5. 
   partial homonyms
   

№20. The words: electronic, automaniac, zebrule were created according to …

1. 
   Back-formation
   
2. 
   Compounding
   
3. 
   Blending or telescoping
   
4. 
   Reduplication
   
5. 
   Shortening
   

№21. The only existing classification system of synonyms was established by …

1. 
   I.V. Arnold
   
2. 
   V.V. Vinogradov
   
3. 
   G.B. Antrushina.
   
4. 
   R.S. Ginzburg.
   
5. 
   A.V. Koonin
   

№22. The word “math” is ...

1. 
   final clipping
   
2. 
   medial clipping
   
3. 
   Reduplication
   
4. 
   initial clipping
   
5. 
   sound interchange
   

№23. Which of the following words are homonyms proper?

1. 
   tear (n) - tear (v)
   
2. 
   sea (n) - see (v)
   
3. 
   wind (n) - wind (v)
   
4. 
   bank (n) - bank (n)
   
5. 
   knight (n) – night (n)
   

№24. The word “BBC” is an example of

1. 
   shortening
   
2. 
   back-formation
   
3. 
   reduplication
   
4. 
   motivation
   
5. 
   sound-imitation
   

№25. The words: brunch, magalog, motel were formed with the help of …

1. 
   Affixation
   
2. 
   Conversion
   
3. 
   Blending
   
4. 
   Shortening
   
5. 
   Sound-interchange
   

№26. Find acronym of alphabetic reading.

1. 
   NATO
   
2. 
   UNO
   
3. 
   FIFA
   
4. 
   NASA
   
5. 
   VIP
   

№27. Polysemy is …

1. 
   words with opposite meanings
   
2. 
   the ability of words to coincide in their sound forms
   
3. 
   the existence of only one meaning within words
   
4. 
   the existence within one word of several connected meanings
   
5. 
   the existence of contrastive meanings within a word.
   

№28. Stylistic synonyms are …

1. 
   words which differ in connotations
   
2. 
   words identical in their sound -form or in graphic form or in both, but different in meaning
   
3. 
   two words having the same denotational meaning but differing in stylistic connotation
   
4. 
   words which differ in their morphemic structure but coinciding in their sound-form
   
5. 
   words which differ in shades of meaning.
   

№29. Which of the following lines is not the source of synonyms?

1. 
   Shortening
   
2. 
   Prepositions
   
3. 
   Euphemisms
   
4. 
   Native and borrowed words
   
5. 
   Conversion
   

№30. Homographs are …

1. 
   words identical in spelling, but different both in their sound-form and meaning
   
2. 
   words identical in sound-form but different in meaning
   
3. 
   words identical in meaning but different in spelling
   
4. 
   words identical in spelling and sound-form but different in meaning
   
5. 
   words identical in sound-form but different both in spelling and in meaning
   

№31. Choose the antonym: “friendly”.

1. 
   young
   
2. 
   bright
   
3. 
   clever
   
4. 
   hostile
   
5. 
   capable
   

№32. Define the French borrowing word.

1. 
   tomato
   
2. 
   council
   
3. 
   datum
   
4. 
   plant
   
5. 
   piano
   

№33. The words consist of a root and affix or affixes are called …

1. 
   derivatives
   
2. 
   nucleus
   
3. 
   productives
   
4. 
   shortenings
   
5. 
   contractions
   

№34. Define non-root morphemes or inflections

1. 
   friend, friendly
   
2. 
   active, inactive.
   
3. 
   please, pleasant
   
4. 
   child, childish
   
5. 
   teachers, teacher’s
   

№35. Sound imitation, reduplication, clipping, abbreviation are …

1. 
   productive ways of word-building
   
2. 
   minor types of word-making
   
3. 
   principal ways of word-building
   
4. 
   ways of making up phraseological units
   
5. 
   ways of changing syntactic pattern and paradigm of words
   

№36. Define the idiomatic compounds with partial changed meaning.

1. 
   Bluebottle
   
2. 
   bluestocking
   
3. 
   tallboy
   
4. 
   blackberries
   
5. 
   butter-fingers
   

№37. Define the type of homonyms: “homophones”.

1. 
   a bank – a bank;
   
2. 
   piece – peace;
   
3. 
   to bow – bow;
   
4. 
   to tear – tear;
   
5. 
   desert – to desert
   

№38. Define non-synonymic word.

1. 
   to astound
   
2. 
   to produce
   
3. 
   to create
   
4. 
   to make
   
5. 
   to fabricate
   

№39. What is shortening?

1. 
   a common element of words
   
2. 
   a derived word
   
3. 
   the smallest meaningful unit
   
4. 
   a significant subtraction in which part of the original word is taken away
   
5. 
   blending
   

№40. Which of the following words are blendings?

1. 
   beggar, to burgle, to edit
   
2. 
   hanky, nighty, radar
   
3. 
   M.P., USA, BBC
   
4. 
   ping-pong, topsy-turvy, walkie-talkie
   
5. 
   Interpol, slimnastics, netizen
   

№41. Define the meaning of the adjective «dull» as «uninteresting».

1. 
   a dull book
   
2. 
   a dull day
   
3. 
   a dull girl
   
4. 
   a dull colour
   
5. 
   dull eyes
   

№42. The word “bye-bye” is an example of

1. 
   shortening
   
2. 
   sound-imitation
   
3. 
   reduplication
   
4. 
   motivation
   
5. 
   back-formation
   

№43. The word “cock – a – doodle - doo” is an example of

1. 
   conversion
   
2. 
   back-formation
   
3. 
   shortening
   
4. 
   sound-imitation
   
5. 
   reduplication
   

№44. It is the way of word-building when a word is formed by imitating different sounds

1. 
   conversion
   
2. 
   blending
   
3. 
   back-formation
   
4. 
   compound word
   
5. 
   sound imitation
   

№45. Define the word of native origin.

1. 
   father, tree
   
2. 
   enemy, crime
   
3. 
   status, method
   
4. 
   alarm, violin
   
5. 
   sky, skirt
   

№46. Choose the synonym: “to stare”.

1. 
   to please
   
2. 
   to admire
   
3. 
   to gaze
   
4. 
   to flash
   
5. 
   to adore
   

№47. Which of the following words were derived by means of back-formation

1. 
   to burgle, to envy, to escape
   
2. 
   to trust, to finger, to learn
   
3. 
   to show, to chat, to lift
   
4. 
   chortle, brunch, smog
   
5. 
   to babysit, to beg, to cobble
   

№48. Define the type of lexical abbreviation – apocope.

1. 
   mart (market)
   
2. 
   phone (telephone)
   
3. 
   expo (exposition)
   
4. 
   bookstore
   
5. 
   net (internet)
   

№49. Which of the following lines of words have derived stems?

1. 
   story-teller, match-box, friendly
   
2. 
   beautiful, girlish, activate
   
3. 
   distance, experiment, sequence, police
   
4. 
   ache, cup, look
   
5. 
   chortle, goody-goody, UNO
   

№50. What are antonyms?

1. 
   words identical found form, but different in meaning
   
2. 
   words different in their sound-form, but identical or similar in some of their meanings and interchangeable at least in some context
   
3. 
   word a which are idiomatic and ready-made units
   
4. 
   words different in sound-form and characterized by semantic polarity of denotational meaning
   
5. 
   words which are typical in grammar
   

2^nd variant

№1. Special Lexicology…

1. 
   devotes its attention to the description of the characteristic peculiarities in the vocabulary of a given language
   
2. 
   discusses the origin of various words, their change and development
   
3. 
   deals with the vocabulary of a given language of a given stage of development
   
4. 
   deals with casual relations between the way the language works and develops and the facts of social life
   
5. 
   studies the correlation between the vocabularies of two or more languages
   

№2. Conversion is a word-building process in which words are built

1. 
   by combining parts of two words
   
2. 
   by joining two or more stems together
   
3. 
   by adding word-building affixes to stems
   
4. 
   by means of changing the paradigm
   
5. 
   by changing of affixes
   

№3. Define the words with the borrowed affixes

1. 
   wisdom, freedom
   
2. 
   ugly, likely
   
3. 
   create, appreciate
   
4. 
   length, truth
   
5. 
   worker, teacher