motivation

elevation (a type of word-meaning changes)

idioms adverbial in nature

What is the role of borrowing in the development of modern English vocabulary?

What is clipping? Point out the words that are formed by clipping from the following: beg, phone ,pop, chunnel ,flu, telex.

What are the major sources of English synonyms? Match the source with the following examples: decide/make up one's mind, job/gig help/aid, lie/distort the fact.

Guess the meaning of the underlined word in the following sentence and tell what contextual clue helps you reach the understanding. He was in a mood of complete euphoria , his happiness being the result of an announcement that he had won the sweepstakes.

Explain the means of word-formation by using the following example words :motel, sitcom, medicare and workfare.

Illustrate the rhetoric use of homonyms by using the following example. “On Sunday they pray for you and on Monday they prey on you. "(the remark made by a London worker on one Sunday morning when he saw groups of the so-called pious gentlemen and ladies entering the church for prayer)

One can only find the English equivalents for its Chinese items such as 黄粱美梦，吃软 不吃硬 in ______.