Lexical relationships

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 in the same syntagmatic relationship as sold
3. be a synonym of sold
4. be transitive
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. polysemy
2. synonymy
3. homographs
4. homophones
The word quarry can mean a place for getting stone or a hunted animal.
The two instances of the word are:
1. homonyms
2. homophones
3. homographs
4. synonyms
Which of the following is a binomial?
1. hook, line and sinker
2. hale and hearty
3. as sick as a parrot
4. out and out
Which of the following is a hypernym of these hyponyms?
child, adult, adolescent, youth, teenager, pensioner
1. person
2. stage
3. age
4. life style
The fact that desert can be a verb and a noun (with a stress shift) is an example of:
1. homophones
2. homographs
3. homonyms
4. word building
The words nation, nationalise, nationality, international form part of:
1. a word family
2. a lexical set
3. a lexical field
4. a shared set of hyponyms
The words shine, shone, shined, shining, shines form part of:
1. a single lexeme
2. a single word
3. a lemma
4. a lexical set
the black sheep (of the family) is:
1. a proverb
2. a simile
3. a lexeme
4. a euphemism
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. synonymy
3. hyponymy
4. homography
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. there aren't enough items to include in the set of hyponyms
3. it will exclude too many common items
4. some objects can look the same but be made of a different material
The relationship between house and words such as doors, windows, roof, wall, kitchen, garden, living room, chimney and so on is one of:
1. meronymy
2. hyponymy
3. synecdoche
4. antonymy
In this sentence, He baked a cake, the relationship between He and baked is:
1. paradigmatic
2. syntagmatic
3. semantic
4. lexical
The difference in meaning between pass it to me and fling it over is to do with:
1. style
2. register
3. dialect
4. connotation
The relationship between cheap and expensive is that they are:
1. gradable antonyms
2. converse antonyms
3. complementary antonyms
4. contronyms
The relationship between grinding and poverty is one of:
1. strong collocation
2. textual collocation
3. binomiality
4. idiomaticity

Lexical relationships

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