Look up the answers to the following questions

1) Which is the more usual spelling night or nite?

2) What is the pronunciation for Niké, escort and dénouement?

3) What is the origin of the words discourse, mesmerize?

4) Write the comparative and superlative forms of forlorn and good-looking.

5) Write the plural of corpus, addendum, appendix and bonanza.

6) Write the past and past participle forms of the verbs sow, saw, hew, gild, strew, cleave, thrive, thrust, dare, prove, heave, reave, spin, slay, slide, glide?

7) Try to guess the meanings of the words: spouse, sibling, community, foster home, layaway?

8) Distinguish between the meanings of the lexical unit capital. Are they homonyms or lexico-semantic variants?

9) Find synonyms for the word extravagant.

10) What restrictive label, if any, is given the word stoned when used to mean ‘under the influence of drugs or alcohol’?

11) What restrictive label is given the word layaway?

12) What kind of restrictive labels are given the word boot?

13) What was Mark Twain’s real name?

14) What is the meaning of abbreviation HAND?

15) What is the meaning of the Latin phrase Unguibus et rostro?

16) Are the followining nouns countable of uncounable: liaison, tedium, splurge?

17) Under which word are the idioms easy money, spending spree listed? Write out the translations.

18) What is the difference in pronunciation of nouns estimate, delegate, predicate and verbs estimate, delegate, predicate?

19) Are the lingual units dead end, coach potato, black market, great dozen registed as free word combinations or compound words?

20) How did the word combination the dismal science acquire its meaning “economics”?

21) Are the words gorge and gorgeous cognate ones?

5. Give the full form of the following labels:

sl, BrE, infml, euph, tdmk, old-fash, fml, humor, tech, AmE, derog, dial, AustrE, ScotE, apprec, pomp, fig, joc, rhet, approv, iron, obs, arch, adj, myth, Bibl, conj, naut, poet, cj, cf.

6. Prove that labels are an important device used by dictionaries to suggest the connotative aspect of words. In the Oxford English Dictionary find words labeled as: dialect, approving, disapproving, figurative, formal, humorous, informal, ironic, literary, non-standard, offensive, old-fashioned, saying, slang, taboo.

7. Use the electronic Longman dictionary and break up the given words into frequently and infrequenly used; pay attention to labels W1 (Top 1000 written words), S1 (Top 1000 spoken words) and the like. How is syllable division showed (enter tools > settings)?

run, use, devoid, subtlety, marry, jump, particular, origin, carol, caviar, analysis, sample, age, light, mark, sign.

Compare two or three general-use dictionaries and comment on the similarities and differences.

Study two or three word entries taken from 4 explanatory dictionaries of the English language. Comment on types of definitions, paying attention to explanation of meanings and the causes.