2 Lexis

Question 0

Denotative meaning?

Answer 0

Describes the thing or idea behind the vocabulary item

Question 1

What is lexis?

Answer 1

Individual words or sets of words, units of vocabulary which have a specific meaning

Question 2

Figurative meaning?

Answer 2

Imaginative meaning, developed from the denotative meaning

Question 3

Situative meaning

Answer 3

Meaning given by context (situation)

Question 4

Clear and simple are … (lexical feature)?

Answer 4

Synonymes

Question 5

Clear and confusing are … (lexical features)?

Answer 5

Antonymes/opposites

Question 6

Clear and well-written are … (lexical feature)?

Answer 6

Lexical sets

Question 7

Clear, clearly, unclear and clarity are … (lexical feature)?

Answer 7

Word families

Question 8

Know/no, whether/weather and there/their are … (lexical feature)?

Answer 8

Homophones

Question 9

Bank, can, leaves and left are … (lexical feature)?

Answer 9

Homonymes

Question 10

Clear and clair (f) are … (lexical feature)?

Answer 10

False friends

Question 11

Unclear is built by …

Answer 11

Prefixe + base word

Question 12

Clearly and a clearing are built by …?

Answer 12

Base word and suffixe

Question 13

Clear-headed is a … (lexical feature)?

Answer 13

Compound

Question 14

Clear skin and a clear day are … (lexical feature)?

Answer 14

Collocations

Question 15

A clear head is a … (lexical feature)?

Answer 15

Figurative meaning

Question 16

To clear the decks (= to start afresh) is a … (lexical feature)?

Answer 16

Idiom