1. cat / mew; 2. sheep / baa; 3. lion / roar; 4. cock / cock-a-doodle-do; 5. frog / croak; 6. cow / moo; 7. horse / whinny; 8. duck / quack; 9. sparrow / twitter; 10. dog / houl.
Ex. 3 p. 145
1. d 2. c 3. b. 4. a
Ex. 3 p. 149
1. d 2. b 3. g 4. e 5. a 6. e 7. c 8. a 9. h 10. j 11. f 12. j 13. e 14. d 15. i
Ex. 7 p. 151
1. c 2. a 3 d 4 h 5. b 6. f 7. e 8. g
Ex. 9 p. 152
1) silly – degradation
2) camp – generalization
3) dole – specialization
4) demon – degradation
5) pretty – elevation
6) cabaret – specialization
7) holiday – generalization
8) fowl – specialization
9) mistress – degradation
10) disease – specialization
11) box – generalization
12) fond – elevationё
13) span – generalization
14) sell – specialization
15) charge – generalization
16) scent – elevation
17) cretin – degradation
Ex. 5 p. 160
1. semantic field; 2. thematic group; 3. lexico-semantic group.
Ex. 6 p. 160
Crime: robbery, burglary, theft, shoplifting, fraud, carjacking, assault, mugging, murder, rape, criminal, thief, crook, burglar, mugger, robber, pickpocket, rapist, offender, lawbreaker, crime, offence, felony, misdemeanour, organized crime, war crime, innocent, arrested, police, station, prison, witness, eyewitness.
Environment: bottle bank, recycle, ozone, sustainable energy, temperature, waste paper, throw away, litter, habitat, activist, ecologist, renewable energy, landscape, greenhouse effect, petrol, oil spills, carbon dioxide.
Word: anagram, anaphor, antonym, back-formation, charade, cognate, contraction, deictic, derivative, diminutive, dirty word, disyllable, four-letter word, frame, function word, good word, headword, homonym, hypernym, hyponym, key word, lexicalize, loanblend, loanword, metonymy, monosyllable, neologism, nonce word, palindrome, polysemant, polysyllable, quantifier, reduplication, substantive, synonym, term, terminology.
Ex. 7 p. 161
School – teacher, private – tutor, university – lecturer, football – coach, driving – instructor, racehorse – trainer.
Ex. 8 p. 161
1. hang; 2. come; 3. run; 4. apply; 5. show; 6. exercise.
Ex. 1 p. 163
1. b 2. c 3. b 4. c 5. a 6. b 7. b 8. b 9. b 10. c
Ex. 5 p. 163
1. phonetic change; 2. conversion; 3. shortening; 4. split of polysemy; 5. borrowing.
Ex. 6 p. 169
1) contraries; 2) contraries; 3) contraries; 4) contradictories; 5) contraries; 6) contradictories; 7) contraries; 8) contradictories; 9) contraries; 10) contraries; 11) contraries; 12) contraries; 13) contradictories.
Ex. 7 p. 169
1) conversives; 2) vectorial antonyms; 3) vectorial antonyms; 4) conversives; 5) vectorial antonyms; 6) conversives; 7) vectorial antonyms; 8) conversives; 9) vectorial antonyms; 10) conversives; 11) conversives.
Ex. 11 p. 170
Deny – admit; sink – float; improbable – likely; ineptitude – ability; subtle – obvious; deferential – disrespectful; cramped – spacious; gloomy – bright; elaborate – simple; zealous – lazy; victory – defeat.
Ex. 12 p. 170
1. k 2. c 3. o 4. d 5. e 6. g. 7. h 8. j 9. a 10. l 11. m 12. b 13. n 14. p. 15. i 16. f
Ex. 4 p. 173
1. i 2. g 3. h 4. a 5. d 6. f 7. e 8. 9. j c 10. b






