Phraseological fusions are word-groups with a completely changed meaning but, in contrast to the unities, they are demotivated, that is, their meaning cannot be ........................................ the meanings of the constituent parts; the metaphor, on which the shift of meaning was based, has lost its clarity and is obscure.

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

Lexicology is a branch of linguistics, the …………………… of language.

Roots are main morphemic vehicles of a given idea in a given language at a given stage of its development. A root may be also regarded as the ultimate constituent element which remains ......................................... all functional and derivational affixes and does not admit any further analysis.

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

Many English words consist of a single root-morpheme, so when we say that most morphemes possess ................................................... we imply mainly the root-morphemes in such words