The word ‘examination’ is a ____________word?

Related Mcqs:

1. ______________involves a different analysis of the structure of the word by attaching a consonant at the end of a word or a vowel at the beginning of the next word ?

   A. Portmanteau
   B. Onomatopoeia
   C. Clipping
   D. Met analysis

2. Fill in the blank. Written over the course of his life, Ezra Pound’s ….. is an examination of the human desire for knowledge and understanding in an inchoate modern landscape ?

   A. “The Sun Also Rises”
   B. “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley”
   C. “The Cantos”
   D. “To the Lighthouse”

3. The substitution of the aspirated /k/ for the un__aspirated /k/ in the word ‘sky’ does not alter the meaning of the worD. It is an instance of ______________ ?

   A. Complementary distribution
   B. Contrastive distribution
   C. Non__complementary distribution
   D. None of the above

4. The following extract presents a suitable answer to the hacknied argument drawn by the defender of Slavery from the songs of the Slave, and is also a good specimen of the powers of observation and manly heart of the writer. The word hacknied is an old form of the word hackneyed. What does it mean ?

   A. Lacking in freshness and originality
   B. Saddened
   C. Double meaning
   D. Blue-eyed

5. Arnold summarises the rule of English criticism in one word, in The Function Of Criticism. What is the word ?

   A. Disintrestedness
   B. Intresedness
   C. Purification
   D. Civilization

6. The voiced sound /z/ denoting the plural morpheme in the word ‘dogs’ is an instance of ________________assimilation?

   A. Progressive
   B. Regressive
   C. reciprocal
   D. none of the abovE

7. The American pronunciation of the word ‘issue’ is an instance of ________________type of assimilation?

   A. Progressive
   B. Regressive
   C. Reciprocal
   D. None of the above

8. ______________________is a processes of word formation wherein one or more syllables are removed from an existing long words?

   A. Compounding
   B. Portmanteau
   C. Derivation
   D. Clipping.

9. In the pronunciation of the word ‘ink’ the alveolar /n/ becoming a velar sound is an instance of ____________?

   A. Progressive
   B. Regressive
   C. Reciprocal
   D. None of the above

10. The word ‘bank’ in ‘on the banks on the river’ and ‘banks are financial institutions’ is called a____________?

    A. Allophones
    B. Homophones
    C. Homographs
    D. Homonyms