Lexicography, the science of dictionary-compiling, is closely connected with lexicology, both dealing with the same problems — the form, meaning, usage and origin of vocabulary units — and making ...................... of each other’s achievements.

Phraseological unities are word-groups with a completely changed meaning, that is, the meaning of the unit does not correspond to the meanings of its constituent parts. They are ...................................... or, putting it another way, the meaning of the whole unit can be deduced from the meanings of the constituent parts.

Lexicology is a branch of linguistics which studies the …………………………… of a language

Descripitive lexicology studies the words at a synchronic aspect. It is concerned with the vocabulary of a language as they exist at the …………………………….. time

Some English words can change their word class ........................................................ their form. Thus, they can function as nouns (e.g. a mother) or as verbs (to mother somebody) without any affixes or inflections. Such change of a word class without any derivative means is called conversion.

It may be easily .............................................that the lexical meaning of the word "boy" and the lexical meaning of the root-morpheme "boy" in such words as "boyhood", "boyish" and others are very much the same

Metaphor: a figure of speech based on similarity (hidden comparison between the object/notion ............................................. denoted by the word and the object/notion in question). Metaphor gives freshness and vivacity to speech.