Vocabulary Test Worksheet
Word tip (Name the skill, use the method): Decide which skill the question is testing. Use that lesson’s method — swap test, split the word, find the link, or look for the clue. Read your answer back in the sentence to check it.
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- 1.Pick the right word: A teacher can ___ students who feel worried. (a) counsel (b) council
- 2.Pick the right word: Please ___ to the next room. (a) precede (b) proceed
- 3.Choose the right form: Termites can ___ wooden furniture. (a) destruction (b) destructive (c) destructively (d) destroy
- 4.Complete the analogy: Author is to book as composer is to ___. (a) painting (b) statue (c) music (d) bridge
- 5.Which word is the antonym (opposite) of “question”? (a) victory (b) journey (c) answer (d) roof
- 6.What does the idiom “bite the bullet” mean? (a) break a tooth (b) eat something hard (c) get angry (d) bravely do a hard thing
- 7.Which word is the opposite of “cold”? (a) hot (b) full (c) short (d) late
- 8.Which word is a noun? (a) simply (b) simplify (c) simple (d) simplicity
- 9.Complete the idiom: Riya visits the zoo once in a blue ___. (a) moon (b) sky (c) sea (d) sun
- 10.Pick the right word: Camels ___ well to life in the desert. (a) adopt (b) adapt
- 11.Which is the everyday (informal) word for “additionally”? (a) lucky (b) often (c) enough (d) also
- 12.Pick the right word: ___ the best singer in our class! (a) You're (b) Your
- 13.What does “disallow” mean? (a) allow wrongly (b) not allow (c) allow before (d) allow again
- 14.Which word is the antonym (opposite) of “generous”? (a) polite (b) brave (c) early (d) selfish
- 15.Complete the analogy: Light is to dark as noise is to ___. (a) song (b) sound (c) silence (d) music
- 16.Fill the gap: A joey is the young one of a ___. (a) kangaroo (b) cat (c) hen (d) cow
- 17.Which is the everyday (informal) word for “physician”? (a) doctor (b) money (c) bike (d) phone
- 18.Which word means the same as “mischievous”? (a) sleepy (b) obedient (c) naughty (d) polite
- 19.Fill the gap: A herd is a group of ___. (a) grapes (b) cows (c) bees (d) ships
- 20.Which word is the opposite of “summer”? (a) morning (b) river (c) winter (d) Monday
- 21.Pick the right word: After the fever, Dev felt ___. (a) week (b) weak
- 22.Fill in the opposite: We push a door to open it and ___ it to close it. (a) pull (b) eat (c) cut (d) sing
- 23.Fill the gap: A pod is a group of ___. (a) whales (b) bees (c) keys (d) cows
- 24.Fill the gap: A crowd is a group of ___. (a) keys (b) people (c) ships (d) grapes
- 25.What does the phrasal verb “run into” mean? (a) meet by chance (b) avoid someone (c) run indoors (d) race someone
- 26.Which word is a verb? (a) imagination (b) imaginative (c) imaginatively (d) imagine
- 27.What does the phrasal verb “look after” mean? (a) search for (b) look behind (c) take care of (d) look later
- 28.Which word means “without pain”? (a) painted (b) painless (c) painter (d) painful
- 29.Which spelling is correct? (a) independent (b) indepedent (c) independant (d) indipendent
- 30.Which word means “not well”? (a) rewell (b) unwell (c) miswell (d) prewell
- 31.Which is the formal word for “answer”? (a) purchase (b) respond (c) require (d) reside
- 32.Complete the analogy: Hen is to chick as frog is to ___. (a) cub (b) kitten (c) foal (d) tadpole
- 33.Fill the gap: The young one of a kangaroo is a ___. (a) lamb (b) chick (c) joey (d) cub
- 34.Add the suffix: swim + er = ? (a) swimer (b) swimmer (c) swimmar (d) swimmor
- 35.Which pair of words are synonyms? (a) begin – finish (b) tall – short (c) happy – sad (d) begin – start
- 36.Which prefix means “not”? (a) pre- (b) re- (c) dis- (d) mis-
- 37.Which pair of words are synonyms? (a) push – pull (b) buy – sell (c) shout – yell (d) shout – whisper
- 38.Which is the formal word for “boss”? (a) residence (b) supervisor (c) occupation (d) error
- 39.Pick the right word: I ___ that storybook last week. (a) red (b) read
- 40.Choose the right form: It was a hard ___ to make. (a) decide (b) decisive (c) decisively (d) decision
Answer key
- counsel
- proceed
- destroy
- music
- answer
- bravely do a hard thing
- hot
- simplicity
- moon
- adapt
- also
- You're
- not allow
- selfish
- silence
- kangaroo
- doctor
- naughty
- cows
- winter
- weak
- pull
- whales
- people
- meet by chance
- imagine
- take care of
- painless
- independent
- unwell
- respond
- tadpole
- joey
- swimmer
- begin – start
- dis-
- shout – yell
- supervisor
- read
- decision
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