Make paradigms of synonyms and antonyms using the words expressing “velocity”, “intellectual ability”, “traits of character”, “people appearance”, “feelings”

4. Establish the type of semantic relations between the following words:

5.* Characterise each of the following sets in terms of systemic approach to vocabulary:

1. airplane, beach wagon, bicycle, bicycle-built-for-two, bulldozer, bus, cab, cable railway, car, carriage, convertible, cruiser, express, handcart, hovercraft, limousine, locomotive, lorry, metro, minibike, monorail, moped, motor scooter, motorcycle, mountain bike, passenger car, pickup, roadster, scooter, sedan, snowmobile, sports car, streetcar, tractor, trailer, train, trawler, tricycle, truck, unicycle, van, wagon;

2. sixth form college, secondary school, nursery, university, junior high school, primary school, diploma, doctorate, semester,private, higher, term, medical, public, academic, master’s, college, postgraduate;

3. patterns (on materials), pin-striped, spotted, plain, striped, checked, flowery, tartan.

6.* Arrange the following units into three lexical sets, give them corresponding names.

robbery, burglary, loanblend, loanword, recycle, metonymy, monosyllable, back-formation, shoplifting, fraud, carjacking, ozone, criminal, thief, crook, charade, cognate, contraction, burglar, greenhouse effect, key word, mugger, robber, pickpocket, rapist, offender, anagram, lawbreaker, crime, quantifier, felony, throw away, misdemeanour, organized crime, war crime, innocent, arrested, acid rain, police station, prison, witness, eyewitness, antonym, bottle bank, sustainable energy, temperature, waste paper, homonym, litter, habitat, activist, ecologist, renewable energy, landscape, offence, polysyllable, petrol, oil spills, carbon dioxide, anaphor, deictic, derivative, assault, diminutive, dirty word, disyllable, four-letter word, frame, function word, good word, headword, hypernym, theft, hyponym, mugging, murder, rape, nonce word, palindrome, polysemant, reduplication, substantive, synonym, term, terminology.

7.* Match the words on the left with the kinds of teacher on the right.

8.* Think of one word only which can be used appropriately in all three sentences.

1) At the end of the holiday ________ on to any unused foreign currency because it may come in handy on another occasion.

If your call is not answered within two minutes, you’re advised to ________ up and dial again.

The company decided to ________ a portrait of the retiring managing director in the boardroom.

2) Helen rubbed her carpet as hard as she could but the stain still wouldn’t _____ out.

I’m afraid people don’t ________ much meaner than my neighbour; she even re-uses her old tea bags!

Matt has gone out this evening to try and forget how badly his presentation went, but in the cold light of day it’ll ________ back to haunt him.

3) Everyone was surprised to discover that the young man was eligible to ________ for president.

The factory closure became such a contentious issue that even the national newspapers decided to ________ a series of articles on it.

The supervisor had to ________ through the safety guidelines several times before she was convinced that all the staff had understood.

4) There are many jobs that my sister could do but she seems unwilling to ________ herself to anything.

The varnish will not have a smooth finish if you ________ it too liberally.

I was attempting to complete the whole form until I realised that half the questions didn’t ________ to me.

5) Because he failed to ________ up for the job interview, Mr Garrard has been crossed off the shortlist of applicants.

In terms of recognition, Tamsin had little to ________ for all the effort she’d put into reorganising the office.

Despite her poor reception in New York, the artist was still keen to ________ her work across the rest of the USA.

6) Many people fail to recognise that the mind needs regular ________ just like any other part of the body.

Trying to get every member of staff to take their holiday at a different time was a very frustrating ________.

Every ________ in the book is designed to build up your reasoning skills.

9. Using the data of various dictionaries compare the lexical valency of the words:

peel, scrape, scrub; guilt, fault, blame; roam, wander, ramble, rove, stray, walk around; value, worth, utility; fear, alarm, dismay, panic; avert, avoid, evade.