Language test

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

Heres a fun russianlanguage test... but the words are mostly of greek and latin origin, so it will give non native speakers a confidence boost!
http://aeterna.ru/test.php?link=tests:20367

Comments

[crimeanelf.livejournal.com]

It's a strange test.

Репрессия means repression, i.e., подавление, but the variants author offers are the following: кара, расстрел, унижение, убийство.

Неглиже used to mean a morning pijama or robe in noble society. Novadays is used by many people as a synonym of nudity. The offered variants are голый, полуодетый.

In the comments to this test you could find more of this remarks...

[zaza-vsevo.livejournal.com]

Репрессия also means гонение. It's normal. Something like унижение.

[crimeanelf.livejournal.com]

Гонение (persecution), yes, but унижение (humiliation), I would say, is very far from it.

[zaza-vsevo.livejournal.com]

Maybe you're right, but "кара", "расстрел" and "убийство" - are exatly not right answers))

I can use "унижение" instead of "репрессия" in my everyday speech and it will not be wrong. But the test is really amusing =)

[crimeanelf.livejournal.com]

Унижение is a serious offence, meant to lower one's dignity. For example, "унизиться до лжи".

Репрессия is a punishment done specifically by government to specifically political enemies, usually proscription (изгнание). For example, "mass repressions of Jews". Note, that English term psychological repression is translated into Russian as вытеснение. In Russian репрессия is nothing but a political action.

[zespri.livejournal.com]

Agreed. Some more:
Ортодоксальный:
нелогичный
непреклонный
удивительный
ошибочный

I think niether of this is correct but the test creators probably meant непреклонный. Orthodox is derived from orthos correct + doxa belief. And the best synonym I can come up with is 'conforming'.

Апробировать:
испытывать
проверять
изучать
официально утвердить

In this case I think both испытывать and официально утвердить are correct. I think I've seen both usages.

[olydiagron.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thougth that was strange... in sweden it isd a womens night gown. so I just choose polugolyj, but that is not a dress... it might be what a puritan think you are in a negligé!