Delta Module 1 – Vocabulary Exam Questions with
Verified Solutions Provided
Ellipsis - Answer Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences
Hypernym - Answer a general word that is a term for many hyponyms e.g. vehicle is a hypernym of car,
bus, lorry etc (co-hyponym)
Hyponym - Answer Describes the relationship between words represented by the formula X is a type of
Y. eg banana to fruit.
Elision - Answer ...omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or
the beginning of the next), e.g. mostly (dropping the /t/)
Anaphoric reference - Answer pronoun which refers to a previously mentioned noun
A word or expression in a text that refers back to another part of the text.
Cataphoric reference - Answer A word or expression in a text that refers forward to another part of the
text
Assimilation - Answer A feature of connected speech where a sound changes (or becomes similar to or
assimilates) to become more like a neighbouring sound before or after it. e.g.
Morphology - Answer Refers to its rules for word formation. Are the smallest combination of sounds
that have a meaning. Prepositions, prefixes, suffixes, and whole words_______.
Syntax - Answer Language rules that govern how words can be combined to form meaningful phrases
and sentences
Metalanguage - Answer ...
any use of language about language
, Rule of form - Answer ...
how do you form the grammar?
Rule of use - Answer ...
How do you use the gramar?
Fossilisation - Answer ...
A process through which an error has become a permanent feature of a learner's language use and is
believed to be resistant to correction.
Unpacking - Answer ...
when 1 sound becomes two different ones like film, here the e grows out of the l or m.
Genre - Answer A term to refer to how social processes (such as thanking a guest speaker or writing a
postcard) are realised in language. Language choices in genre are influenced by: what is being talked
about (field), who is being addressed (tenor), whether the text is written or spoken (mode).
Concordance - Answer A concordance displays the results of a word search as individual lines of text,
with the targeted word (s) aligned in the centre. E.g. ST 'beautiful'. A convenient way to present learners
with data for analysis, from which they can work out the regularities and patterns associated with the
selected words
Co-text - Answer ...
The other words used in phrases or sentences that help determine the meaning of the word in a
question
Utterance - Answer ...
the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication
Dictogloss - Answer ...
Verified Solutions Provided
Ellipsis - Answer Omission or suppression of parts of words or sentences
Hypernym - Answer a general word that is a term for many hyponyms e.g. vehicle is a hypernym of car,
bus, lorry etc (co-hyponym)
Hyponym - Answer Describes the relationship between words represented by the formula X is a type of
Y. eg banana to fruit.
Elision - Answer ...omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or
the beginning of the next), e.g. mostly (dropping the /t/)
Anaphoric reference - Answer pronoun which refers to a previously mentioned noun
A word or expression in a text that refers back to another part of the text.
Cataphoric reference - Answer A word or expression in a text that refers forward to another part of the
text
Assimilation - Answer A feature of connected speech where a sound changes (or becomes similar to or
assimilates) to become more like a neighbouring sound before or after it. e.g.
Morphology - Answer Refers to its rules for word formation. Are the smallest combination of sounds
that have a meaning. Prepositions, prefixes, suffixes, and whole words_______.
Syntax - Answer Language rules that govern how words can be combined to form meaningful phrases
and sentences
Metalanguage - Answer ...
any use of language about language
, Rule of form - Answer ...
how do you form the grammar?
Rule of use - Answer ...
How do you use the gramar?
Fossilisation - Answer ...
A process through which an error has become a permanent feature of a learner's language use and is
believed to be resistant to correction.
Unpacking - Answer ...
when 1 sound becomes two different ones like film, here the e grows out of the l or m.
Genre - Answer A term to refer to how social processes (such as thanking a guest speaker or writing a
postcard) are realised in language. Language choices in genre are influenced by: what is being talked
about (field), who is being addressed (tenor), whether the text is written or spoken (mode).
Concordance - Answer A concordance displays the results of a word search as individual lines of text,
with the targeted word (s) aligned in the centre. E.g. ST 'beautiful'. A convenient way to present learners
with data for analysis, from which they can work out the regularities and patterns associated with the
selected words
Co-text - Answer ...
The other words used in phrases or sentences that help determine the meaning of the word in a
question
Utterance - Answer ...
the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication
Dictogloss - Answer ...
