This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Linguistics > Semantics > Semantics – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Semantics Quiz 7 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What term describes the way in which a word appears frequently along with certain other words? A) Connotation. B) Denotation. C) Collocation. D) Entailment. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Collocation. 2. The terms "precede/follow" can be classified as ..... antonyms. A) Complementary. B) Gradable. C) Reverse. D) Converse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Complementary. 3. The words dress and shirt have the same ..... A) Symbolic representation. B) Referential meaning. C) Semantic domain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Semantic domain. 4. Queens are monarchs. A) Contradiction. B) Tautology. C) Other Sentences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tautology. 5. Between what ages does a child typically utter their first word? A) 6 and 8 months. B) 10 and 14 months. C) 12 and 18 months. D) 14 and 20 months. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 12 and 18 months. 6. It's a good ten miles to the next gas station. 2. We had a good time yesterday. A) Polysemy. B) Metonymy. C) Homonymy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Polysemy. 7. Write, right, rite A) Homonym. B) Homophone. C) Homograph. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Homophone. 8. Which of these words is not an example of a spatial deictic expression? A) There. B) These. C) This. D) Then. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Then. 9. What is an example of near synonymy? A) Error, mistake. B) Bear/bear. C) Mist/fog. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Error, mistake. 10. Two or more words with the same form and related meanings by extension (foot of a person, of a bed, of a mountain); based on similarity. A) Metonymy. B) Hyponymy. C) Polysemy. D) Hyponym. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Polysemy. 11. Study of meaning in language. A) Morphology. B) Semantics. C) Pragmatics. D) Syntax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Semantics. 12. Kings are poor. A) Contradiction. B) Tautology. C) Other Sentences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Other Sentences. 13. Can be loud or quiet A) Utterance. B) Sentence. C) Proposition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Utterance. 14. What would a hyponym be for the hypernym of environment? A) Rubbish. B) Pen. C) Computer mouse. D) Oak tree. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oak tree. 15. The synonym word of 'get' is ..... A) Acquire. B) Lose. C) Give. D) Send. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acquire. 16. What we call the word of 'snake', 'turtle', and 'lizard' are in relation of to the word of 'reptile' A) Metonyms. B) Hyponyms. C) Synonyms. D) Antonyms. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyponyms. 17. Which maxim is violated in the following conversation:A: "I really like that dinner"B:" I'm a vegetarian" A) Quality. B) Quantity. C) Manner. D) Relevance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Relevance. 18. The phrase "a man" in which of the two sentences is a referring expression?1. John attacked a man2. John is a man A) Sentence 1. B) Sentence 2. C) Both sentences. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sentence 1. 19. Semantics is the study of A) The relations of linguistic units to context. B) The relations of linguistic to meaning. C) The relations of the grammatical relations of linguistic units to one another and the grammatical structures of the phrases. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The relations of linguistic to meaning. 20. Which of the following words refers to things in the world? A) Almost. B) And. C) Chicken. D) Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chicken. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesLinguistics QuizzesSemantics Quiz 1Semantics Quiz 2Semantics Quiz 3Semantics Quiz 4Semantics Quiz 5Semantics Quiz 6Semantics Quiz 8Semantics Quiz 9Semantics Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books