1.

Define the type of the phraseological unit “Dutch courage”: half-unity;

2. Define the type of the phraseological unit “to rain cats and dogs”: half-fusion
3. The change of meaning which took place in case with the word villain, the original meaning
- ‘a peasant, (working on a villa)’, is an example of: degradation / degeneration of meaning
4. The word “sushi” is not assimilated: semantically
5. Choose the juxtapositional (simple) compounds: blackbird, landlady, snowfall;
6. The phraseological unit to break silence is an example of: standardized word-combinations
7. Non-literary colloquial words include: Slang, jargon, professionalisms, vulgarisms.
8. The phraseological unit to pay through the nose is an example of: phraseological half-
fusions
9. Define the status of the word “Wi-Fi”: term
10. The phraseological unit an Arkansas toothpick (‘hunting knife’) is an example of:
phraseological fusions
11. Define the type of word-building observed in case with the lexemes grief - to grieve: sound
interchange / gradation
12. Pick the exotisms: samurai, borsch
13. Give the etymological doublet to the word “edible” … eatable
14. The words to burgle and to cobble as made from burglar and cobbler are the earliest
examples of: back-formation / reversion;
15. Say which of the following structural types of conversion is the most productive: N→V
16. The word lily-of-the-valley is: a syntactic compound;
17. Define the type of the following homonyms: “key : quay” partial homonyms (homophones)
18. Define the type of word-building observed in case with the lexeme drunch (drinks + lunch):
blending
19. The word Anglo-Saxon is: a morphological compound;
20. Define the hypernym among the following words: swallow, lark, bird, kingfisher, tit,
sparrow, thrash: bird
21. The word absent-mindedness is: a derived / derivational compound;
22. Define the type of word-building observed in case with the lexeme looks (‘appearance’):
lexicalization of the plural of nouns
23. What is connotation? a supplementary meaning of a word
24. The word bedroom is: a neutral compound;
25. Point out a derived word. Amazement
26. Define the status of the word “job seeker” as opposed to “unemployed” euphemism
27. Define the type of word-building observed in case with the lexeme giggle: onomatopoeia
28. The words language and mother tongue are: phraseological synonyms;
29. Sound interchange is a non-productive type of word-formation.
30. The words to get and to buy are: contextual synonyms;
31. Define the type of word-building observed in case with the lexeme sculpt < sculptor back-
formation / reversion
32. The words hearty and cordial, or terrible and atrocious are: stylistic synonyms;
33. The word “newspaper” is a … one. Compound
34. The words intelligent, shrewd, clever, bright, sagacious are: ideographic-stylistic synonyms;
35. Define the origin of the word “algebra”: Arabic
36. The words to change, to alter, to vary are: ideographic denotational synonyms;
37. Define the type of synonyms “bring : fetch” ideographic synonyms
38. Dictionaries of slang, usage dictionaries, dictionaries of word-frequency, pronunciation
dictionaries etc are: specialized dictionaries;
39. The dictionaries containing vocabulary items in one language and their equivalents in
another language are called: translation dictionaries;
40. Define the type of word-formation illustrated by the word “walkie-talkie”: reduplication
41. Choose the syntactic compounds: man-of-war, stay-at-home, mother-in-law
42. Abbreviations, which are read in accordance with the rules of orthoepy as though they were
ordinary words are called … Acronyms
43. Define the type of word-building observed in case with the lexeme shilly-shally:
reduplication
44. The material side of the word is… its graphic image or sound cluster
45. Name all the types of contraction (clipping). Apocope, apheresis, syncope, mixed type.
46. the dictionaries dealing with the form, usage and meaning of lexical units, and providing
information on all aspects of the lexical units entered are called: explanatory dictionaries;
47. Define the type of semantic change in the word “marschal” amelioration
48. The dictionaries that contain lexical units in ordinary use with a certain proportion of items
from various spheres of life are called: general dictionaries;
49. The dictionaries which give information about the extra-linguistic world rather than present
a word’s spelling and pronunciation, grammatical characteristics, synonyms, antonyms etc.
encyclopaedic dictionaries;
50. Define the type of word-building observed in case with the lexemes phone and flu:
shortening
51. Pick the barbarisms: ad libitum, quid pro quo;
52. Single out the translation loan: masterpiece
53. The method of quantitative study of language phenomena is called: statistical analysis;
54. Find a hypernym among the following words: linguistics
55. Select the phraseological collocations: to make friends, to make sure, ways and means;
56. The method of linguistic analysis which is applied in case with the word-combinations new
potatoes - молода картопля, new bread - свіжий хліб is called: contrastive analysis;
57. The method of linguistic analysis which is applied in case with the word woman - ‘human’,
‘female’, ‘adult’ is called: componential analysis;
58. Name the trope observed in the following example: He drank a couple of glasses.
Metonymy
59. Define the type of word-building observed in case with the lexeme to mister: affixation
60. Define the type of the phraseological unit “to pull smb’s leg”: fusion; fusion;
61. The lexemes rickshaw and sari are: loan-words not assimilated semantically;
62. The word “root” in the phrase “the root of the word” is: a metaphor
63. Define the type of the following synonyms: “money : dough, do-re-mi” stylistic synonyms
64. Find the word with a diffused meaning: object
65. Define the type of word-building observed in case with the lexeme ladybug: composition
66. The lexemes phenomenon and crisis are: loan-words not assimilated grammatically;
67. In the word “painter” one can observe … motivation: morphological
68. The lexemes police and bourgeois are: loan-words not assimilated phonetically;
69. What type of lexical meaning do the following words illustrate (tall story, buy smth for a
song, catch a cold) ? phraseologically bound meaning;
70. The word “musketeer” is an example of: historical words
71. Define the type of word-building observed in case with the lexeme happiness: affixation
72. The lexemes cheese and table are: completely assimilated borrowings;
73. Onomasiology is… the study of the principles of nomination;
74. Words coined for a particular situation or context and aimed at a certain stylistic effect are
called: occasional words
75. The words and word-groups which appear in a language to denote new concepts are called:
neologisms;
76. Words such as brow (‘forehead’), behold (‘see’), lone (‘lonely’) are: poetic words
77. The lexemes downtown and apartment are characteristically: American
78. Define the type of synonyms ‘announce : give notice, report, declare, proclaim’ ideographic
79. The morphemes -proof (waterproof, fireproof), - like (ladylike, businesslike), -worthy
(seaworthy, trustworthy) etc are: semi-affixes;
80. State the type of semantic change in the word ‘fond’ as compared with its etymological
meaning “foolish”
elevation/amelioration
81. The noun-forming suffixes -ess (goddess, lioness) and -ent (movement, resident) are:
Roman;
82. The phraseological units to be a gumtree and a bush lawyer are peculiarly: Australian
83. The native noun-forming suffixes -dom and -hood are: non-productive;
84. Translate the following idiom: Буде й на нашій вулиці свято Every dog has his day
85. British English and American English are two main: variants of the English language
86. The words major and mayor are: etymological doublets;
87. The word-groups whose elements have restricted combinative power (valency) are called…
phraseological collocations
88. State the source of the following idioms: the golden calf, the apple of one’s eye, forbidden
fruit. The Bible
89. The words interesting condition for pregnancy and memorial park for a cemetery are:
euphemisms;
90. The most productive types of word-building observed in the present-day English language
include… affixation, composition, conversion
91. Complete the following idiom: as cool as … - ‘спокійний, мов удав’ a cucumber
92. The words hopeful and hopeless are: affixal antonyms;
93. A case of falsely interpreted semantic motivation, a fancied analogy between foreign words
and some well-known words existing in one’s mother tongue is called: folk etymology
94. The words match (‘a sporting competition’) and match (‘a short, thin piece of wood used to
light a fire’) are: homonyms;
95. Select the words with diffused semantic structure affair, object, to take
96. The words incredulous and incredible are: paronyms;
97. Complete the following idiom: to call a spade … - ‘називати речі своїми іменами’ a spade
98. Select the words with the semi-bound morphemes: Wonderland, homeland, motherland
99. Define the type of word-building observed in case with the lexeme swoosh: sound imitation;
100. Another term for blending is: telescopy
101. Define the type of word-building observed in case with the lexeme insatiable:
affixation;
102. Define the type of word-building observed in case with the lexeme to carpet:
conversion;
103. An expression or a word intended to be less offensive, rude or indecent is known as:
euphemism
104. Define the type of word-building observed in case with the lexeme weekend:
composition;
105. State the nature of motivation observed in case with the lexeme sizzler (‘something
that sizzles’): phonetical and morphological;
106. Considering the transference of meaning in the examples listed below, point out a
figure of intensification (pseudo-simile): as hell
107. The constituent to which a rule of word-formation is applied is known as: a
derivational base
108. State the nature of motivation observed in case with the lexemes finger-ring and ring-
finger: morphological motivation;
109. The essence of the morphemic analysis of words is based on the following
constituents: immediate/ultimate
110. From the standpoint of lexicology, the words “disc” and “dish” are considered to be:
etymological doublets
111. An affixless way of word-building which is often regarded as a particularly English
linguistic phenomenon is called: conversion;
112. Point out the so-termed “false friend of a translator” when compared with seemingly
the same word in Ukrainian: aspirant
113. The term which is habitually used to denote lack of motivation from the point of
view of one’s mother tongue is: idiomaticity
114. Word-formation: is an autonomous language mechanism which is used to build new
words;
115. Single out the diminutive suffix: let
116. How do you call the following words: eatable – edible, word – verb, masculine –
male? etymological doublets.
117. By its nature the lexical meaning of a word is always: individual, unique;
118. Find a word with the semi-prefix: halfback
119. The content plane of the word includes: its lexical and grammatical meaning;
120. Stable word-groups in which the leading component is literal, while the rest of the
group is idiomatically fused are called… half-fusions
121. Which of the linguistic disciplines listed below deals with all types of set expressions
and idioms? Phraseology;
122. The aptness of a word to appear in various combinations is described as its: valency
/ collocability
123. Point out a word with the most productive suffix: heartless
124. The neologism "netiquette" was coined by means of…blending
125. What branch of lexicology is the study of the principles and regularities of the
signification of things and notions by lexical and lexico-phraseological means of a given
language? Onomasiology;
126. Despite the fact that borrowed words comprise about 80% of the English vocabulary,
English still remains a Germanic language because: the native element includes a large
number of high-frequency words and the grammatical structure of the language is essentially
Germanic
127. Compounds are words made of …two or more stems
128. Point out a word with a semi-affix: policeman
129. What branch of lexicology can be described as the science of dictionary-
compiling? Lexicography;
130. Find a compound where at least one of ICs is a derived stem: syntactic
131. The word-building type of the unit "wait-a-bit" is syntactic
132. What branch of lexicology deals with the meaning of words and other linguistic
units? Semasiology
133. State the structural type of the compound “speedometer” morphological
134. Choose the correct variant: By the external structure of a word we mean: its
morphological structure;
135. Allomorph is a ... variant of a morpheme. Positional
136. Point out a derived word. amazement
137. Choose the correct variant to define the type of word-building observed in case with
the lexemes 'export - to ex'port: change of stress;
138. The term "word" means … a combination of stems and sounds
139. Choose the correct variant: Synchronic lexicology deals with the vocabulary of a
language at a given stage of its development, usually at the present time;
140. The process of creating new words is called … word-formation
141. Choose the correct variant to answer the question: What is Special Lexicology? It is
the lexicology of a particular language;
142. Choose the correct variant: Lexicology is a branch of linguistics which deals with:
lexical units and the vocabulary of a language;
143. The change of meaning which took place in case with the word minister, the original
meaning - ‘a servant’, is an example of: elevation / melioration of meaning
144. The term "Lexicology" is of … origin. Greek
145. The smallest meaningful structural unit of a language is called … morpheme
146. From the viewpoint of lexicology, words consist of … morphemes
147. Among archaic words. (USE ADJECTIVE) words denote no-longer existing objects
(e.g. thane, burgess, galleon etc) : Historical
148. By the degree of assimilation of loan-words one may distinguish three groups:
completely assimilated loan words; partially assimilated loan words; non-assimilated loan
words, or____________ (USE A PLURAL NOUN). Barbarisms
149. Choose an archaism: realmleader
150. Choose from the words listed below the one which is a/an poetic word : steed
151. Choose from the words listed below the one which is a/an barbarism : succés d'estime
152. Choose a neologism: meme
153. Choose from the layers of vocabulary listed below the one which describes the
following word: identikit ('photorobot') : neutral
154. Choose from the layers of vocabulary listed below the one which describes the
following word: jail-bird ('convict') : colloquial word neutral
155. Choose the most neutral word: girl
156. Choose from the words listed below the one which is a/an neologism : laptop
157. Define the type of the phraseological unit "to play the first fiddle": unities
158. Type in ONE word to complete the sentence According to the classification of
phraseological units based on the semantic principle, completely non-motivated idiomatic
word-groups as, for example, to show the white feather - 'to betray one's cowardice' are called
__________ fusions
159. The phraseological unit diligence is the mother of good luck is an example of:
phraseological expressions
160. Type in ONE word to complete the sentence According to the classification of
phraseological units based on the semantic principle, proverbs, sayings and aphoristic
familiar quotations (Fools rush in where angels fear to tread (A. Pope) (F дурням закон не
писаний)) are called ______ : expressions
161. Type in ONE word to complete the sentence
162. According to the classification of phraseological units based on the semantic principle,
word-groups with the components whose combinative power (valency) is strictly limited (to
make friends: *to do friends, *to make comrades) are called : collocations
163. Type in ONE word to complete the sentence The branch of linguistics which studies
different types of set expressions, which like words name various types of objects and
phenomena is called ____: phraseology
164. Type in ONE word to complete the sentence According to the classification of
phraseological units based on the semantic principle, stable word-groups in which the leading
component is literal, while the rest of the group is idiomatically fused (to talk through one's
hat - 'to talk foolishly') are called__________ : half-fusions
165. Which of the following compounds is an idiomatic one? : cliffhanger
166. Type in TWO words to complete the sentence A stable linguistic complex which may
be readily applied and perceived by the participants of the process of communication
(proverbs, sayings, set expressions etc is called a_________ : set phrase
167. 21 .The phraseological unit to kill two birds with one stone is an example of:
 phraseological unities
168. 22 . Type in ONE word to complete the sentence
169. According to the classification of phraseological units based on the semantic principle,
metaphorically motivated idioms (their meaning is transparent, but no component is literal as
in to make a mountain out of a mole hill - 'to become exited about trifles,' to wash one's dirty
linen in public- 'to tell people about one's hidden sins and falls') are called ____unities
170. 23 Define the type of the phraseological unit "to cross swords with smb":
phraseological unities
171. 24 Choose the option which characterizes the origin of the unit below: violin :
Italian borrowing
172. 25 Choose the option which characterizes the origin of the unit below: khaki : Urdu
borrowing
173. 26 Choose the option which characterizes the origin of the unit below: alumnus :
Latin borrowing
174. 27 Find out the word which is not assimilated graphically: naïveté
175. 28 A word taken over from another language and usually modified in phonemic shape,
spelling,
176. paradigm, or meaning according to the standards of the English language is called a :
loanword
177. 29 The lexemes superman / overman (Übermensch, 'Nietzsche's superior man of the
future who could rise above conventional Christian morality to create and impose his own
values') and pale-faced ("a European') are: translation loans
178. 30 The lexemes sombrero, lasso are: loan-words not assimilated phonetically
179. 31 Despite the fact that borrowed words comprise about 80% of the English
vocabulary, English still remains a Germanic language because: the native element includes
a large number of high-frequency words and the grammatical structure of the language is
essentially Germanic;
180. 32 By the degree of assimilation of loan-words one may distinguish three groups:
completely assimilated loan words; partially assimilated loan words; non-assimilated loan
words, or (USE A PLURAL NOUN). _______: barbarisms
181. 33 Choose the option which characterizes the origin of the unit below: ski :
Scandinavian borrowing
182. 34 International : ___________ (USE AN ADJECTIVE) words are words of
identical origin that occur in several languages as a result of simultaneous or successive
borrowings from one ultimate source (e. g. television, cybernetics, coffee etc).
183. 35 Choose the option which characterizes the origin of the unit below: waltz :
German borrowing
184. 36 The term "Lexicology" is of ... origin. : Greek
185. 37 Write ONE word to complete the sentence: The minimal distinctive unit of
meaning is known as - : morpheme
186. 38 The words old and new are: absolute antonyms
187. 39 Write ONE word to complete the sentence: The component of lexical meaning
which immediately refers to the particular phenomenon in the outside world and makes
communication possible is _____ : denotation
188. 40 Write ONE word to complete the sentence: Transference of meaning based on
similarity is "linguistic _________ : metaphor
189. 41 Write ONE word to complete the sentence: The component of lexical meaning
which conveys the emotive charge and stylistic value of the word is __________ :
connotation
190. 42 The aptness of a word to appear in various combinations is described as its:
valency / collocability
191. 43 Write ONE word to complete the sentence: Words resembling each other in form,
but different in meaning and usage are called ________ : homonyms
192. 44 Write ONE word to complete the sentence: The ability of words to have more than
one meaning is described by the term ______: polysemy
193. 45 The words major and mayor are: paronyms
194. 46 The words to change, to alter, to vary are: ideographic-stylistic synonyms;
195. 47 The words intelligent, shrewd, clever, bright, sagacious are: ideographic-stylistic
synonyms;
196. 48 The component of meaning recurrent in identical sets of individual forms of
different words is called: grammatical meaning
197. 49. Choose the correct variant: The meaning of a compound is derived from: the
lexical meanings of its immediate constituents and from the structural meaning of its pattern
198. 50. The words to burgle and to cobble as made from burglar and cobbler are the
earliest examples of: back-formation / reversion
199. 51. Choose the correct variant: The word Anglo-Saxon is: a morphological
compound.
200. 52. Choose the correct variant: The word G-man (Government man,'an
201. FBI agent') is: a contracted compound
202. 53. The constituent to which a rule of word-formation is applied is known as: a
derivational base.
203. 54. Choose all correct variants to define the type of word-building observed in case
with the lexemes 'export - to ex'port - Conversion / Change of stress
204. 55. Define the type of an affix -s- in the word sportsman – linking
205. 56. Name the type of clipping in the word phone (clipped from telephone) - back
clipping
206. 57. Choose the correct variant: An affixless way of word-building which is often
regarded as a particularly English linguistic phenomenon is called: conversion
207. 58. The meaning of a bound morpheme is: signiticative, vague
208. 59: Choose the correct variant:
209. What branch of lexicology can be described as the science of dictionary-compiling? -
Lexicography
210. 60. Choose ONE correct answer: The main nominative unit of language is: - the word
211. 61. Choose ONE correct answer: Which of the following language units is bilateral
(i.e. has both form and meaning): a morpheme
212. 62. Choose ONE correct answer: Which is the main function of a word? – nominative
213. 63. Which of the following variants cannot be called territorially-marked? - General
English
214. 64. Words of some variant that have no counterparts elsewhere denote
interchangeable phenomena phenomena observable in other - realia
215. 65. British English and American English are two main: - dialects of the English
language
216. 66. Out of the following variants choose one, which contains examples from the same
national variety - torch, braces, flat
217. 67. Complete the following definition with one word: A ___________is a form of
language or a set of lexical items used by an economic class, profession, an age group of
people - sociolect
218. 68. What do we call varieties of a language used as a means of oral communication in
small localities? - dialects of the language
219. 69. What do we call regional varieties of a standard literary language characterized by
some minor peculiarities in the sound system, vocabulary and grammar and their own literary
norms? - variants of the language.
220. 70. What differs a variant from a dialect? - it possesses a literary norm.
221. 71. What do we call the group of features characteristic of one single person's speech?
- ideolects of the language
222. 72. Complete the following definition with one word: A_____________ is a regional
variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation
from other regional varieties - dialect
223. 73. What is the main field of difference between British, American, Australian and
 Canadian English? - phonetics and vocabulary
224. 74. Out of the following variants choose one, which contains examples from the same
national variety - flat, wastepaper basket, biscuit.
225. 75. What is a regional variant of English? - Welsh English
226. 76. Out of the following variants choose one, which contains examples from the same
national variety - suspenders, sidewalk, flashlight.
227. Choose ONE correct answer: Which is the main function of a word? – nominative
228. Choose the correct variant:What branch of lexicology dealswith the origin or
derivation of a word as shown by its analysis intoelements, or by referring to an
earlier form in its parent language? – Etymology
229. Write a NOUN to logically complete the sentence: _________is the smallest
constituent of a word having no meaning but fulfilling the function of differentiating
morphemes. - phoneme
230. Write ONE NOUN to logically complete the sentence: _ is a concrete manifestation
of a morpheme, a variant, an alternative of a morpheme — "morpheme"
231. Write an adjective to logically complete the sentence: A morpheme vision in the
wordprovision is ___ because it can form a word by itself — free
232. Choose the correct variant: The morphemes which may occur alone and coincide
with word- forms or immutable words are called: free morphemes
233. Write an adjective to logically complete the sentence: A morpheme is ___ when it
cannot form a word by itself — bound
234. An expression or a word intended to be less offensive, rude or indecent is known as: -
euphemism.
235. Choose from the words listed below the one which is a/an barbarism - succés d'estime
236. The official language of Great Britain is called: Standard English
237. Complete the following definition with one word: A ___ is a regional variety of
language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other
regional varieties dialect
238. Type in ONE word to complete the sentence According to the classification of
phraseological units based on the semantic principle, stable word- groups in which the
leading is literal, while the rest of the group is idiomatically fused (to talk through one's
hat - 'to talk foolishly) are called - semi-idioms
239. What do we call international words? **words borrowed from one language into
several others**³.
240. Choose from the layers of vocabulary listed below the one which describes the
following word: bloody colloquial word
241. The phraseological unit "white elephant" is considered to be an example of:
phraseological unities
242. Type in TWO words to complete the sentence A stable linguistic complex which
may be readily applied and perceived by the participants of the process of communication
(proverbs, sayings, set expressions etc) is called a - phraseological unit
243. The words old and new are: incompatible antonyms - contrary antonyms
Name the type of an abbreviation in the word NATO - Acronym
244. Choose the correct variant: The word lily-of-the-valley is: - a syntactic compound
245. Choose the correct variant: The native noun-forming suffixes -er and -ing are:
productive
246. Choose the correct variant: Word- formation: is an autonomous language mechanism
which is used to build new words
247. Define the type of an affix -s- in the word sportsman - linking (Женя – interfix)
248. Name the type of clipping in the word phone (clipped from telephone) Initial
clipping (apheresis)