Before you take the practice examination

set fire to and burn

roleplay

hopeful and hopeless

elevator (American) and lift (British)



Select the correct answers from the drop-down lists.
Начало формы
Some words occur together naturally. This is called  and the words that come together are called  .
For example, adjective +  : flat landscape, painful toothache etc.
There are some phrases in English which are known as fixed or  fixed. Usually, these are  which are formed of more than one word but which have a single  .
Usually, we cannot understand an  by knowing the meaning of the individual words.
are pairs of words which often come together and are fixed. For example, above and  (= more than)
can be learned and used as if they were single language items but they are different from idioms.
When two or more words mean almost the same thing, they are called  . For example:
hard = difficult (although hard is more  )
When we tell our students that two words 'mean the  ' we need to be careful to add 'in this case'!
When two words are opposite in meaning, they are called  . 
The words 'brother' and 'sister' are  antonyms because you can't have one without the other.
Some words can include the meaning of other words. When the word 'vehicle' is used to cover the meanings of 'car', 'bus', 'tram', 'train', 'motorcycle' etc., it is called superordinate or  and the words 'car', 'bus', 'tram', 'train', 'motorcycle' etc. are the  .
 are words which are spelled the same and pronounced the same but have different meanings.
 sound exactly the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings.
 are spelled the same but pronounced differently.


A  describes the relationship between different forms of the same lexeme so we have, for example: nation, national, nationalise, international, nationality etc.
A  describes the relationship between words of the same kind and type. They are often  . For example, 'house', 'cottage', 'palace', 'shack', 'cabin' are all types of dwelling.
A  describes the words that commonly come together in a text.
When languages are related some words look and sound almost the same in both languages and they are called  words.
False friends are cognate words or words  between languages which look the same and sound  but mean something  .
We may recognise what a word means but not be able to pronounce it or use it accurately and naturally. That's the difference between  and active  .