1.

In my foggy state I decided to leave the apartment – in my foggy state

2. Find a homonym (homophone) to the following word week – weak
3. Find cases of conversion in the following sentence: Melissa went to town
and did a buy. – a buy
4. Place the relative synonyms in order of increasing the quality: enraged -
angry – furious - angry-furious-enraged
5. Substitute a phraseological … - I just called to say I love you and I mean it
really – from the bottom of my heart
6. White out the following metaphors used in … - Kathy arrived at the grocery
store with an army of children. - an army of children
7. White out the following metaphors used in … - We are all shadows on the
wall of time. - shadows on the wall of time
8. Use a phraseological unit instead of the underlined words: She eats very
little. - like a bird
9. What language does this word come from? Machine – French
10. What language does this word come from? Sputnik – Russian
11. What language does this word come from? Kindergarten – German
12. The number of borrowed words in Modern English comprises 70% of all
words in the language.
13. Explain whether the assimilation of the following borrowing is complete or
partial: phenomenon – Partial
14. What language does this word come from? Tomato – Spanish
15. What language does this word come from? Opera – Italian
16. State the origin of the following words: Flora-Latin, Canoe-Native,
Magazine-Arabic, Landscape-Dutch/Flemish/Scandinavian, Wife-Old
English
17. Classify the following borrowings according to the sphere of human activity
they represent: primadonna – art
18. Classify the following borrowings according to the sphere of human activity
they represent: sputnik – science
19. What language does this word come from? Czar – Russian
20. State what these words are: shirt – skirt - etymological doublets
21. Classify the following borrowings according to the sphere of human activity
they represent: comedy – art
22. What language does this word come from? Garage – French
23. The word globisity is a blend
24. Define the particular type of word-building process: advertisement –
affixation, BBC-abbreviation, roar-sound-imitation, to finger -conversion,
Oxbridge-blending, Ladybird-composition, doc-shortening
25. Find cases of conversion in the following sentence: Remember to milk the
cows. – to milk
26. Classify the following borrowings according to the sphere of human activity
they represent: philosophy – science
27. State what homonyms the following words are: ball (a round object used for
playing) - ball (a dancing party) -homonyms proper
28. Classify the homonyms into homonyms proper, homographs and
homophones: Row [rou] - row [rau]-homographs, tale-tail-homophones,
match – match-homonyms Proper
29. The type of transference based on the similarity of two objects or notions is:
metaphor
30. Clever – stupid
31. Define the type of transference in the word hand in the following sentence:
Can you please give me a hand carrying this box up the stairs? Metaphor
32. State the origin of etymiligical doublets: hospital-hotel – Latin
33. Find a homonym to the following word: eye – I
34. Explain whether the assimilation of the following borrowing is complete or
partial: street –complete
35. The type of transference when the range of meaning becomes broader but
the meaning itself becomes more obscure – generalization
36. Explain whether the assimilation of the following borrowing is complete or
partial: wall – complete
37. Find a homonym (homophone) to the following word: dye – die
38. Making a new word from some existing word by changing the category of
its part of speech, the morphemic shape of the original word remaining
unchanged is conversion
39. Complete the following sentence using the best word from the FAT list. He
should do some exercise - he's getting rather plump
40. BBC - British Broadcasting Corporation
41. Define the type of transference in the following words and word
combinations. The seeds of evil-metaphor, a Mercedes-metonymy, silly
(saint) - silly (stupid) -elevation of meaning, a bird (a young bird) - a bird
(any bird)- generalization of meaning, villain (farm laborer) - villain (an evil
person) -degradation of meaning, a hound (any dog) - a hound (a dog used
for hunting) - specialization of meaning
42. sitcom = situation + comedy and is a blend
43. BB- bed and breakfast