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5 Written questions

1. is the central or core meaning of a word, sometimes claimed to be

the relationship between a word and the reality it refers to, and often contrasted with
connotation.

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2. is a word formed by taking the initial letters of the words in a phrase

or title and pronouncing them as a word.

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3. is one of the principal ways of forming words in modern English

which consists in making a new word from some existing word by changing the
Print test category of a part of speech; the morphemic shape of the original word remains
unchanged.
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4. is the smallest meaningful unit of a language, which has lexical or

grammatical meaning

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5. is a speech variety appropriate to a particular speech situation (e.g.,

formal versus casual).

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5 Matching questions

A. is a speech variety spoken in a particular

1. Derivational morpheme
geographical area
(e.g., Appalachian English).

2. Regional dialect
B. are regional varieties possessing a literary norm

C. is the aptness of a word to appear in specific

3. Variants of English
grammatical (or rather syntactic) structures

D. is an affixal morpheme which is added to the

4. Grammatical valency stem to
form a new word.

5. Homophones E. are words of the same sound, but of different

meaning

5 Multiple choice questions

1. is a variant of a morpheme

Semantics

Allomorph

Homographs

Bound morpheme

2. is a list of all the words which are used in a particular book or in

the works of a particular author, together with the contexts in which each word occurs
(usually not including highly frequent grammatical words such as articles and
prepositions), e.g. The Concordance to Shakespeare.

Lexical meaning

Thesaurus

Concordance

Lexicography

3. are words grouped together on the basis of the semantic relations of

opposition

Antonyms

Homonyms proper

Eponym

Homonyms

4. is a speech variety spoken by a group of people who share a

particular social characteristic such as economic class, ethnicity and age.

Dictionary

Sociolect

Concept

Epithet

5. is a word or phrase used as a comment on, or brief description of, a

person or object o attention.

Dialect

Equivalent

Lexeme

Epithet

5 True/False questions

1. is the formation of a word due to an alteration in the

phonemic composition of its root. → Grammatical valency

True

False

2. is the paradigm of an adjective, noun or pronoun, giving all its

forms. → Declension

True

False

3. is a manner of pronunciation of a language. → Accent

True

False

4. is the form to which an affix is added  → Base

True

False

5. is a language spoken as a native language by the

majority of people in a given geographic region. e.g. Russian in Russia. → Endoglossic language

True

False

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