TKT Module 1: Describing language: Lexis – Participant’s Worksheet 2

Match the definitions below with the terms for the lexical items.
1. a word which has the same or nearly the same meaning as another word

2. a meaningful group of letters added to the beginning of a root or base word to make a new
word, which can be a different part of speech from the original word

3. a word in the target language which looks or sounds as if it has the same meaning as a similar
word in the learners’ first language but does not

4. a meaningful group of letters added to the beginning or end of a word to make a new word,
which can be a different part of speech from the original word

5. a verb which is made up of more than one word (e.g. a verb + adverb particle or preposition)
which has a different meaning from each individual word

6. a word with the same spelling as another word, but which has a different meaning

7. a group of words that are related to each other by their root or base word

8. a meaningful group of letters added to the end of a root or base word to make a new word,
which can be a different part of speech from the original word

9. the opposite of another word

10. a group of words or phrases that are about the same content topic or subject

11. nouns, verbs, adjectives or prepositions that are made up of two or more words with one unit
of meaning

12. a basic word or part of a word from which other words can be made by adding a prefix or
suffix or in some other way

13. words which are regularly used together. The relation between the words may be
grammatical or lexical.

14. a group of words that are used together, in which the meaning of the whole word group is
different from the meaning of each individual word

15. a word which sounds the same as another word, but has a different meaning or spelling

16. the formality or informality of the language used in a particular situation

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Affix
Antonym
Collocation
Compound

False friend
Homonym

Homophone
Idiom
Lexical set
Phrasal verb
Prefix
Register
Root word, base word
Suffix
Synonym
Word family

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A. interview, interviewer; tidy untidy

B. hot is the opposite of cold

C. when certain verbs go with particular prepositions, e.g. depend on, good at or
when a verb like make or do goes with a noun, e.g. do the shopping, make a
plan

D. assistant office manager, long-legged

E. In French ‘librairie’ is a place where people can buy books. In a library in English,
you do not buy books but borrow them instead.

F. bit (past tense of ‘bite’) and a bit (a little)

G. I knew he had won; I bought a new book

H. She felt under the weather means that she felt ill

I. weather – storm, to rain, wind, cloudy

J. look after – A mother looks after her children

K. appear – disappear

L. Formal language used in a job applications, informal language used with friends.

M. photograph is the root or base of photographer and photographic

N. care – careful

O. nice is similar in meaning to pleasant

P. economy, economist, economic

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TKT Module 1: Describing language: Lexis –Sample Task

For questions 1–7 match the examples of vocabulary with the categories listed A–H.
Mark the correct letter (A–H) on your answer sheet.

There is one extra option which you do not need to use.

Examples of vocabulary Categories

A synonyms
1 colour, color; realise, realize; theatre, theater

B lexical set
2 traffic lights; alarm clock; seat belt

C collocations
3 childish; successfully; dependable

D word + suffix
4 turn up; turn off; turn into

E prefix + word
5 catch a cold; catch a bus; catch a thief

F compounds
6 sad; miserable; unhappy

7 ankle; stomach; knee; heart G phrasal verbs

H American and British

English

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