№13. It is a way of word-building when a word is

formed by imitating different sounds.

A. conversion

B. blending

C. back-formation

D. compound word

E. onomatopoeia

№12. Choose the synonym of the word “to stare”.

A. to please

B. to admire

C. to gaze

D. to flash

E. to adore

№11. Taboo is the main cause of such a linguistic

phenomenon as a (an) …

A. idiom

B. euphemism

C. hybrid

D. etymological

doublet

E. metonymy

№10. Give the English equivalent for the phrase “целый и невредимый”.

A. high and mighty

B. odds and ends

C. safe and sound

D. whole and mad

E. thin as a rail

1. What do lexis, lexicon, and vocabulary

refer to?

A. The total

stock of words in a language 

B. The study of

phonemes in word meanings

C. The

association between different forms of the same lexeme

D. Simple,

compound, and complex words