№8. The words

USSR,

EU, UNO

A. Acronyms

B. sound

interchange

C. back-formation

D. Graphical

abbreviation

E. Lexical

abbreviation

№7. The denotational meaning is …

A. the component

of meaning that distinguishes one word from all others containing identical

morphemes

B. the

connotational meaning

C. the component

of meaning recurrent in identical sets of individual forms of different words

D. the component

of meaning that considers emotive charge and stylistic reference of words

E. the component

of the lexical meaning which makes communication possible.

№6. Metonymy is …

A. degradation of

meaning

B. a transfer

based upon the association of contiguity of meaning

C. amelioration of

meaning

D. a transfer of

name based on the association of similarity

№5. The parts of speech, especially affected by

conversion, are …

A. Pronouns

B. Verbs and nouns

C. Numerals

D. Adverbs

E. Adjectives

4. What is the

primary focus of semantics?

A. Analyzing the

arrangement of morphemes in words

B. Studying the

history of words

C. The study of

meanings 

D. The study of

relations between words

3. What are free

morphemes?

A. Morphemes

that require attachment to other morphemes

B. Morphemes

that are the smallest meaningful units

C. Morphemes

that have multiple meanings

D. Morphemes

that can occur alone as individual words 

2. What is the

primary focus of lexicography?

A. Studying the

history of words

B. Studying meanings within a language's vocabulary

C. Investigating

and theorizing about vocabulary

D. Writing or

compiling dictionaries 

№16. What is polysemy?

A. the ability of

words to coincide in their sound form

B. the existence

of contrastive meanings within a word

C. the existence

within one word of several connected meanings as the result of the development

and changes of its original meaning

D. words with

opposite meanings

E. the existence

of only one meaning within words

№15. ____ are words belonging to the same part of

speech, identical in style, expressing contrary or contradictory notions.

A. homonyms

B. synonyms

C. euphemisms

D. antonyms

№14. What are compound words?

A. words

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

B. class of

lexical elements possessing the same lexical-grammatical meaning

C. nouns denoting

some feeling and state

D. derivational

morphemes standing before the root