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Which of the following areas has fewer differences when comparing British and American English?

• pronunciation

• grammar

• spelling

• vocabulary

Name the major ways of word-building.

All dictionaries, regardless of type, provide the same kind of information about words.

• True

• False

Conversion is a way of creating new words by joining two or more stems to form one word.

• True

• False

Highly idiomatic phraseological units cannot be translated word for word into other languages.

• True

• False

The part of lexicology that studies the origin of words is

• etymology

• semasiology

• phraseology

• lexicography

The process foreign words undergo by adapting themselves to the norms of the language they are borrowed into is called

• borrowing

• adjustment

• adaptation

• assimilation

The paradigmatic relation between words with similar meanings is called ... .

Words in antonymic relations belong to different parts of speech.

• True

• False

Words of the same sound, but of different spelling and meaning are called ... .

• homonyms proper

• homographs

• homophones

• perfect homonyms