lexis and semantics

Question 1

demotic modal verbs

Answer 1

certainty (will)
compulsion (must)

Question 2

epistemic modal verbs

Answer 2

possibility (might)
choice (could)

Question 3

lexical field

Answer 3

field of words relating to the subject

Question 4

abstract nouns

Answer 4

things that don’t physically exist e.g love

Question 5

neologisms

Answer 5

words that are made up

Question 6

idioms

Answer 6

like metaphors

Question 7

jargon

Answer 7

specified terminology

Question 8

high frequency lexis

Answer 8

often used words

Question 9

low frequency lexis

Answer 9

words not used very often

Question 10

pre modifier

Answer 10

​a word, especially an adjective or a noun, that is placed before a noun and describes it or limits its meaning in some way. In ‘a loud noise’, the adjective ‘loud’ is a premodifier.

Question 11

post modifier

Answer 11

a word or phrase that is used after another word to limit or add to its meaning: Postpositive adjectives, for example “general” in “secretary general”, are the post-modifiers of noun phrases.

Question 12

hyperbole

Answer 12

exaggeration

Question 13

compound sentence

Answer 13

links two or more clauses together using the conjunction ‘and’ or ‘but’

Question 14

collocations

Answer 14

words that go together e.g fish and chips