Lexical relationships

Multiple-choice exercise
ELT Concourse home page

Choose the best answer.

  1. The lexical set derived from a hypernym such as metal object is probably an unusable concept pedagogically because:
    1.   the lexical set which is derived is too large and amorphous
    2.   some objects can look the same but be made of a different material
    3.   there aren't enough items to include in the set of hyponyms
    4.   it will exclude too many common items
  2. In this sentence, He baked a cake, the relationship between He and baked is:
    1.   paradigmatic
    2.   semantic
    3.   lexical
    4.   syntagmatic
  3. The words shine, shone, shined, shining, shines form part of:
    1.   a lemma
    2.   a single lexeme
    3.   a single word
    4.   a lexical set
  4. The relationship between house and words such as doors, windows, roof, wall, kitchen, garden, living room, chimney and so on is one of:
    1.   synecdoche
    2.   antonymy
    3.   meronymy
    4.   hyponymy
  5. Which of the following is a binomial?
    1.   out and out
    2.   hale and hearty
    3.   hook, line and sinker
    4.   as sick as a parrot
  6. Which of the following is a hypernym of these hyponyms?
    child, adult, adolescent, youth, teenager, pensioner
    1.   stage
    2.   age
    3.   life style
    4.   person
  7. the black sheep (of the family) is:
    1.   a proverb
    2.   a lexeme
    3.   a simile
    4.   a euphemism
  8. The fact that desert can be a verb and a noun (with a stress shift) is an example of:
    1.   homophones
    2.   word building
    3.   homographs
    4.   homonyms
  9. The word level can mean many things - a step, a part of a process, a tool for finding horizontal and so on. What is this phenomenon?
    1.   homographs
    2.   homophones
    3.   polysemy
    4.   synonymy
  10. The relationship between grinding and poverty is one of:
    1.   strong collocation
    2.   idiomaticity
    3.   textual collocation
    4.   binomiality
  11. In the sentence, She sold the car, we can replace sold with lost, drove, bought, wrecked etc. but not with words like red, happily, arrive and but.
    This is because the replacement word must:
    1.   be in the same paradigmatic relationship as sold
    2.   be transitive
    3.   be a synonym of sold
    4.   be in the same syntagmatic relationship as sold
  12. The difference in meaning between pass it to me and fling it over is to do with:
    1.   dialect
    2.   register
    3.   style
    4.   connotation
  13. The word read can mean study (as at university) or make sounds from written words (as in reading aloud). This is an example of:
    1.   polysemy
    2.   hyponymy
    3.   homography
    4.   synonymy
  14. The relationship between cheap and expensive is that they are:
    1.   complementary antonyms
    2.   gradable antonyms
    3.   contronyms
    4.   converse antonyms
  15. The word quarry can mean a place for getting stone or a hunted animal.
    The two instances of the word are:
    1.   homographs
    2.   homonyms
    3.   homophones
    4.   synonyms
  16. The words nation, nationalise, nationality, international form part of:
    1.   a lexical set
    2.   a lexical field
    3.   a shared set of hyponyms
    4.   a word family