Preparation materials for the final stage of All-Russian olympiad of school students on the Russian language

The provided materials may be used in preparing senior school children for Academic Olympiad. The materials are shown as questions and answers and may be used not only for training and self-checking, but also for philological reading. The information given in the full answers may help the competitors enlarge their knowledge and master the skills as the main aim of Olympiads is to interest linguistically gifted children in science about the Russian language and its history. In the center of attention there is a word, its meaning and creation, its origin and historical changes, its stylistic features and its stylistic role in the text