This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Advanced > Lexical Relations – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Lexical Relations Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Get (to take)-get (to become) A) Hyponym. B) Synonym. C) Homonym. D) Polysemy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Polysemy. 2. The word mine has two meanings, but the same sound. What is this lexical relationship? A) Homonymy. B) Homophones. C) Polysemy. D) Homographs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Homonymy. 3. Using hyperonyms is specially useful for cross-cultural communication A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 4. Ball-toy is an example of: A) Hyponymy. B) Hypernymy. C) Holonymy. D) Meronymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyponymy. 5. (Shout it out loud) is an example of A) Contradiction. B) Entailment. C) Tautology. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tautology. 6. Synonyms are usually context-free A) TRUE. B) FALSE. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FALSE. 7. How can context influence the interpretation of a statement? A) The speaker's intent is irrelevant to interpretation. B) Context has no effect on meaning. C) Context shapes the meaning of a statement. D) Statements are always interpreted the same way. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Context shapes the meaning of a statement. 8. Peace/ piece are examples of A) Homoymy. B) Polysemy. C) Homophony. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Homophony. 9. Which of these are synonyms? A) "Cold" and "Freezing". B) "Right" and "Wrong". C) "Colour" and "Pink". D) "Knight" and "Night". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Cold" and "Freezing". 10. "Car" is a meronym of "wheel" A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 11. The lexical relation between "Move" and "Run" is ..... A) Synonymy. B) Antonymy. C) Hyponymy. D) Homonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyponymy. 12. Lengthen-Shorten A) Antonymy. B) Hyponymy,. C) Synonymy. D) Homophony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antonymy. 13. What does categorization refer to in the context of language? A) The use of language to express emotions. B) The study of word pronunciation. C) The process of using language to classify the world. D) The process of forming new words. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The process of using language to classify the world. 14. How does the use of euphemisms affect communication? A) Euphemisms can soften the impact of difficult topics. B) Euphemisms have no effect on communication. C) They are only used in formal writing. D) Euphemisms always lead to misunderstandings. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Euphemisms can soften the impact of difficult topics. 15. Lexical meaning studies: A) Meaning of phrases. B) Meaning of sentences. C) Meaning of words. D) Meaning of utterances. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meaning of words. 16. Duck (animal)-duck (lower the head) A) Homonym. B) Homophones. C) Polysemy. D) Hyponymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Homonym. 17. Set of words that has the same or nearly the same meaning in some or all senses A) Antonyms. B) Clines. C) Synonyms. D) Polysemy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synonyms. 18. What is a converse relationship between lexemes? A) When two lexemes have identical meanings. B) When two lexemes describe the same relationship in reverse order. C) When two lexemes have opposite meanings. D) When two lexemes are unrelated. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) When two lexemes describe the same relationship in reverse order. 19. Uncle is mother's brother. A) KINSHIP. B) HYPONYM. C) SYMETRICAL RELATIONSHIP. D) SYNONYM. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) KINSHIP. 20. Day-week-fortnight-month-year A) Hyponymy. B) Homonym. C) Cline. D) Polysemy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cline. 21. A playful use of words can be defined as A) Prototype. B) Word Play. C) Polysemy. D) Hyponymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Word Play. 22. What is a sense relation? A) A grammatical relation between phrases. B) A syntactic relationship between sentences. C) A phonetic relationship between sounds. D) A paradigmatic relation between words or predicates. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A paradigmatic relation between words or predicates. 23. Characterizing the meaning of each word is? A) Word Play. B) Lexical Relation. C) Homophone. D) Polysemy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lexical Relation. 24. What is the relationship between "big" and "small" ? A) Hyponymy. B) Taxonomy. C) Antonymy. D) Synonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antonymy. 25. "Giving someone a hand" is an example of ..... A) Polysemy. B) Antonymy. C) Metonymy. D) Homophony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metonymy. 26. What role does context play in understanding idiomatic expressions? A) Context is irrelevant to idiomatic expressions. B) Context only affects the grammatical structure of idioms. C) Idioms are always understood the same way regardless of context. D) Context helps clarify the intended meaning of idioms. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Context helps clarify the intended meaning of idioms. 27. What kind of antonym entails the denial of the other? A) Non-gradable. B) Gradable. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Non-gradable. 28. What do we refer to as synonymy? A) Two opposite terms. B) Words having the same meaning. C) Words within a lexical hierarchy. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Words having the same meaning. 29. What is the primary focus of lexical relations? A) The grammatical rules of sentences. B) The relationships between words in a language. C) The emotional impact of words. D) The historical development of language. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The relationships between words in a language. 30. What is polysemy? A) Words that have only one meaning. B) Words that have more than one meaning. C) Words that are spelled the same but pronounced differently. D) Words that have opposite meanings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Words that have more than one meaning. 31. Has the same spelling and sound, but do not have related meanings A) Synonymy. B) Polysemy. C) Homonymy. D) Homophones. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Homonymy. 32. Homonymy, Metonymy, Polysemy are examples of: A) Lexical Relationships. B) Structural Relationships. C) Structural meaning. D) Word Meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lexical Relationships. 33. Which of the following is an example of synonymy? A) Tall and short. B) Fast and slow. C) Big and large. D) Cat and dog. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Big and large. 34. (The escaping convict accidentally assassinated the guard.) There is a case of ..... A) Contradiction. B) Entailment. C) Tautology. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Contradiction. 35. "Eye" is a ..... of "face" A) Synonym. B) Hyponym. C) Meronym. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Meronym. 36. A set of words that have contrasting or opposite meanings are called ..... A) Synonyms. B) Antonyms. C) Homonyms. D) Homophones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antonyms. 37. What is the lexical relation between "Big" and "Small" ? A) Antonymy. B) Polysemy. C) Hyponymy. D) Synonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antonymy. 38. A set of words that has partitive relations A) Meronymy. B) Homophones. C) Hyponymy. D) Polysemy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meronymy. 39. Wich is the best idea for METONYMY? A) A metonymy are words with the same definition. B) Metonymys are phrasal nouns. C) Using one word to refer to the other with a close connection based on a container-content, whole-part or representative-symbol relation. D) Is the same as metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Using one word to refer to the other with a close connection based on a container-content, whole-part or representative-symbol relation. 40. Select the correct order:Jane ..... the bicycle on the busy ..... A) Roder, rode. B) Road, rode. C) Rode, roder. D) Rode, road. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rode, road. 41. I read a Book-The reservations can be made to book a banquet. A) Polisemy. B) Homophony. C) Antonymy. D) Synonymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Polisemy. 42. Song Hye Ko is beautiful.Song Hye Ko is pretty. A) SYNONYM. B) ANTONYM. C) HYPONYM. D) HYPERNYM. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) SYNONYM. 43. Bat (animal)-bat (for baseball) A) Homophone. B) Synonym. C) Homonym. D) Hyponym. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Homonym. 44. Which of the following phrases is a correct collocation? A) Strong coffee. B) Intense coffee. C) Hard coffee. D) Powerful coffee. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Strong coffee. 45. Clock = digital-analog-alarm A) Meronymy. B) Cline. C) Hyponymy. D) Polysemy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyponymy. 46. The capacity for a word or phrase to have multiple meanings is named ..... A) Homophone. B) Polysemy. C) Monosemy. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Polysemy. 47. Non gradable antonyms are open to comparison A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 48. A set of words that has contrasting or opposite meanings A) Clines. B) Antonyms. C) Homonyms. D) Synonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antonyms. 49. According to Iris, Litowitz and Evens, the pair of words "students/class" is an example of ..... A) THE RELATION OF A SEGMENT TO A PREEXISTING WHOLE. B) THE RELATION OF A MEMBER TO A COLLECTION. C) A MERONOMY OF THE FUNCTIONS COMPONENT TO ITS WHOLE. D) THE RELATION OF A SUBSET-SET. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) THE RELATION OF A MEMBER TO A COLLECTION. 50. What does 'polysemy' refer to? A) Words that sound alike but have different meanings. B) A single word having multiple related meanings. C) Words with opposite meanings. D) The relationship between a part and a whole. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A single word having multiple related meanings. 51. Black and White; Good and Bad; Right and Wrong are examples of A) Word Play. B) Gradable Pairs. C) Relational Pairs. D) Complementary Pairs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Complementary Pairs. 52. Which of the following is an example of hyponymy? A) Red and yellow are not related. B) Color is a hyponym of yellow. C) Color is a hyponym of red. D) Red is a hyponym of color. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Red is a hyponym of color. 53. What is the best definition for "meronymy" ? A) A word with two or more synonyms. B) The relation of part to whole. C) When two or more words share the same meaning. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The relation of part to whole. 54. How does the use of jargon affect communication in specialized fields? A) Jargon simplifies communication for everyone. B) Jargon can create barriers to understanding for those outside the field. C) Jargon is always beneficial in any context. D) Jargon has no impact on communication. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jargon can create barriers to understanding for those outside the field. 55. What is the difference between a hyperbole and an understatement? A) A hyperbole is an exaggerated statement, while an understatement minimizes the truth. B) Both are forms of sarcasm. C) An understatement is always more effective than a hyperbole. D) Hyperbole and understatement are identical in meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A hyperbole is an exaggerated statement, while an understatement minimizes the truth. 56. What does 'contextual meaning' refer to? A) The emotional associations of a word. B) The literal definition of a word. C) The meaning that changes based on context. D) The grammatical structure of a sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The meaning that changes based on context. 57. Language with many adjectives are the most likely to have gradable antonyms A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 58. What differenciates a taxonomy from non-taxonomic hyponyms is ..... A) ITS MORE FLEXIBLE CHARACTER. B) THEIR NON-STABLE CATEGORIES. C) THEIR SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) THEIR SCIENTIFIC CHARACTER. 59. Example of Homograph A) Bark. B) Bank. C) Live. D) All of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of them. 60. What is the primary focus of semantics? A) The structure of sentences. B) The meaning of language. C) The sounds of speech. D) The history of language. 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