Практикум по лексикологии английского языка. Часть 1. Словообразование. Маковецкая Н.А - 30 стр.

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Exercise 15. What compound nouns do the following definitions refer to? See the
list below:
1) staying late in bed in the morning;
2) arrangements of persons in a line;
3) upheaval, complete rearrangement;
4) restaurant at which customers are served without having to leave their cars;
5) signal or permission to proceed;
6) act of ignoring, avoiding or rejecting;
7) something handed out (esp. statement prepared for journalists);
8) delay in traffic, stoppage;
9) unpleasant after-effects of getting drunk;
10) final settlement of accounts;
11) person (usually woman) whose acquaintance one casually makes;
12) thing set off against another;
13) open revelation of enmity,
14) an organised absence of employees from their jobs on the pretext of being sick;
15) the collecting of people's signatures in support of a petition, demand, addressed
     to the government or any authoritative body;
16) a musical event in which the audience serves as a chorus or joins in the
     singing;
17) the occupying of a public place by a group of people to spend the night or to
     sleep there as a form of protest;
18) a gathering to smoke marijuana or hashish;
19) a long meeting or session held by university teachers and students for the
     purpose of expressing critical views on an important social issue.

Shake-up, lie-in, line-up, drive-in, go-ahead, go-by, handout, hold-up,
hangover, pay-off, pick-up, set-off, showdown, seek-out, sleep-in, sing-in,
smoke-in, teach-in, sign-in.

Exercise 16. Comment on the semantics of the underlined derivational compound
nouns.
1.We had a breakdown. 2. There was a smash-up of two governments during this
time. 3. The story was a take-in. 4. She wore castaways. 5. Spelling is his most
serious hold-back. 6. He was given a top-off as to what was going to happen. 7.
Questioned about the break-up of his marriage, Hume said it was inevitable. 8. The
airplane made a perfect touch-down with one of its four engines out of action. 9.
The actions of the management caused a mass walk out. 10. Her face flushed under
the make-up, then grew white. 11. He sent telegrams to some of the runaway
former addresses. 12. Sam got carried off somewhere in a mix-up. 13. No one liked
the new lecturer, so there was a gradual fall-off in attendance of his lectures.

Exercise 17. Translate the occasional compound words in bold type.