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30. A jersey, the foot of a mountain, China are instances of
a) metonymy;
b) metaphor;
c) broadening of meaning.
31. A unit of fixed context like small talk, small change, in the
nick of time where
one component is phraseologically bound in its meaning and the
other
determines the context is called
a) a motivated idiom;
b) a demotivated idiom;
c) a phraseme.
32. Waterproof, kissproof are examples of
a) root;
b) suffix;
c) semi-affix.
33. The leading semantic component in the semantic structure of a
word is called
a) denotative component;
b) connotative component;
c) contextual component
34. Light-mindedness, honey-mooner, newcomer belong to
a) syntactic compounds;
b) derivational compounds;
c) morphological compounds.
35. Senior (Lat)-sir (Fr), defence-fence, shirt-skirt are
a) translation loans;
b) etymological doublets;
c) international words.
36.Which among the words below belong to the Indo-European
element of lexis?
a) day, night, be, star, son, new;
b) bird, boy, daisy, always;
c) bone, sea, ship, tell, summer.

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