Лексикология английского языка

___________________ is a newly coined word or phrase or a new meaning for an existing word, or a word borrowed from another lan­guage.

_______________ are words that were once common but are now re­placed by synonyms.

In Great Britain there are two variants _____________________.

Unilingual dictionaries are divided into _________________.

Theory and practice of compiling dictionaries is called________________ . 

______________ are words different in sound but most nearly alike or exactly the same in meaning.

_______________ is the most general term of its kind potentially containing the specific features rendered by all the other members of the synonymic group.

In the process of speaking a word of more or less pleas­ant or at least inoffensive connotation becomes synonymous to one that is harsh, obscene, indelicate or otherwise unpleasant. As the "offensive" referents, for which these words stand, must still be alluded to, they are often described in a round-about way, by using substitutes called _______________________.

__________________________ are word-groups with a par­tially changed meaning. They are clearly motivated, that is, the meaning of the unit can be easily deduced from the meanings of its constituents.

The term ______________is of Greek origin / from «lexis» - «word» and «logos» - «science»/ .

The term ______________denotes a group of words which exists in the language as a ready-made unit, has the unity of meaning, the unity of syntactical function, e.g.

Lexicology can study the development of the vocabulary, the origin of words and word-groups, their semantic relations and the development of their sound form and meaning. In this case it is called ___________________.

____________________are affixes: prefixes (dis-), suffixes (-ish) and also blocked (unique) root morphemes (e.g. Fri-day, cran-berry). ____________________are inflexions (endings), e.g. -s for the Plural of nouns, -ed for the Past Indefinite of regular verbs, -ing  for the Present Participle, -er  for the Comparative degree of adjectives.

_________________consist of one root morpheme and an inflexion.

__________________ consist of two or more root morphemes and an inflexion, e.g.  «baby-moons», «wait-and-see (policy)».

__________________ is the formation of words by means of adding a prefix to the stem. In English it is characteristic for forming verbs.

The term_________________ first appeared in the book by Henry Sweet «New English Grammar» in 1891.

There are two main types of ________________: graphical and lexical.

______________________are the result of shortening of words and word-groups only in written speech while orally the corresponding full forms are used. They are used for the economy of space and effort in writing.

There are some 800 words borrowed from __________________ into English. Some of them have classical roots, e.g. in some geological terms, such as: cobalt, bismuth, zink, quarts, gneiss, wolfram.