This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Advanced > Lexical Semantics – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Lexical Semantics Quiz 1 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Bound morphemes require a second morpheme, free or bound, to ..... A) Form a word. B) Change word category. C) Extend grammatical meaning. D) All (A, B, C). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All (A, B, C). 2. Choose a pair of binary antonyms: A) Push-pull. B) Hot-cold. C) Sweet-sour. D) Sweet-salty. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Push-pull. 3. Are CONTRARY antonymy gradable? A) Yes. B) No. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 4. Which of these scenarios reflects the prototype effect within hyponymic networks? A) "Dog" being judged a better example of "animal" than "amoeba.". B) "Part" and "whole" being confused with meronymy. C) "Bank" having both 'financial' and 'river' senses. D) "Happy" being listed with "sad" as an antonym pair. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Dog" being judged a better example of "animal" than "amoeba.". 5. Complementary Antonyms are ..... A) Complementary adjectives ONLY (true-false, open-closed). B) Complementary adjectives (true-false) and Contradictory-The door is open = the door is not closed. C) Have rhetorical function. "It is meeting the public need, not private greed". D) Expresses a 'part-of 'relation between the denotations of related nouns. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Complementary adjectives (true-false) and Contradictory-The door is open = the door is not closed. 6. "Compact" is a polysemous word and a homograph. A) Verdadero. B) Falso. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Verdadero. 7. Select the correct semantic relationship of the following example:I have a wife. I am a bachelor. A) Inclusion. B) Contradiction. C) Paraphrase. D) Entailment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Contradiction. 8. In a short text a journalist alternates between "terrorists, " "freedom fighters, " and "militants" to describe the same group. From a lexical-relations viewpoint, which is the most precise description? A) This is a shift from synonymy to hyponymy. B) These are near-synonyms carrying different evaluative connotations (connotative antonymy). C) These are instances of homonymy of a single lexeme. D) This is meronymy focusing on parts of a group. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) These are near-synonyms carrying different evaluative connotations (connotative antonymy). 9. When the meaning of one form is included in the meaning of another, the relationship is described as ..... A) Hyponymy. B) Homonymy. C) Polysemy. D) Meronymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyponymy. 10. The concept of ..... is, of course, well-known and intuitively obvious; it denotes sameness in meaning, or sense. A) Antonymy. B) Synonymy. C) Inclusion. D) Exclusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Synonymy. 11. ..... is a morphological device by which a new word is coined by repeating the entire of the word or part of it. A) Redundancy. B) Acronymy. C) Reduplication. D) Blending. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reduplication. 12. When two words sound and are written the same but are different in meaning, they are known as ..... A) Hyponymy. B) Homonymy. C) Polysemy. D) Meronymy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Homonymy. 13. Hot and cold are complementary pairs. A) Verdadero. B) Falso. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Falso. 14. What is BabelNet and how does it differ from WordNet? A) BabelNet is a dictionary that only includes synonyms and antonyms. B) BabelNet is a multilingual semantic network that differs from WordNet by integrating Wikipedia and supporting multiple languages. C) BabelNet is a social media platform for language learners. D) BabelNet is a programming language that only supports English. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) BabelNet is a multilingual semantic network that differs from WordNet by integrating Wikipedia and supporting multiple languages. 15. What is an example of plesionym? A) Rain/fog. B) Bark/bark. C) Misty/foggy. D) Sell/cell. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Misty/foggy. 16. What type of meaning is presented in this example:She has drunk some water vs. Some water has been drunk by her? A) Collocative meaning. B) Thematic meaning. C) Reflected meaning. D) Affective meaning. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thematic meaning. 17. Which of these features could apply to the word IMAGINATION? A) +COLLECTIVE. B) +COUNT. C) +ANIMATE. D) +ABSTRACT. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) +ABSTRACT. 18. What is an example of near synonymy? A) Error, mistake. B) Bear/bear. C) Mist/fog. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Error, mistake. 19. What are cognitive synonymy? A) Illustrate only the difference in time, dialect and intensity. B) Illustrate the difference in style and register only. C) Illustrate the difference in style, register, intensity, semantic analysis, time, dialects and connotations. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Illustrate the difference in style, register, intensity, semantic analysis, time, dialects and connotations. 20. Read the sentence: "The committee tabled the motion after the heated debate." In British English this means 'postponed' while in American English it means 'brought forward'. This divergence is best analysed as: A) Homonymy created by borrowing. B) Antonymy across dialects. C) Polysemy with contextually divergent extensions. D) Meronymy arising from political terminology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Polysemy with contextually divergent extensions. 21. Which word is the direct hypernym of these terms:tulip, forget-me-not, rose, dandelion? A) PLANT. B) FLOWER. C) VEGETABLE. D) FRUIT. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) FLOWER. 22. Lexical decomposition is also called A) Generative semantics. B) Morphological analysis. C) Structural analysis. D) Componential analysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Componential analysis. 23. Which type of figurative language does the expression MALE RAM belong to? A) Tautology. B) Oxymoron. C) Metonymy. D) Synesthesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tautology. 24. What is the indirect hypernym for these terms:oak, ash, willow, beech? A) TREE. B) PLANT. C) FLOWER. D) BUSH. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) PLANT. 25. ..... is the morphological process of forming a new word by attaching a bound morpheme to the front of a free morpheme. A) Derivation. B) Inflection. C) Affixation. D) Prefixation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prefixation. 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