Vocabulary Test Worksheet
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- 1.Which pair of words are synonyms? (a) scared – brave (b) in – out (c) scared – afraid (d) old – new
- 2.Which pair of words are synonyms? (a) quick – slow (b) rich – poor (c) wet – dry (d) quick – fast
- 3.What is the masculine of “tigress”? (a) tiger (b) king (c) lion (d) bull
- 4.Fill the gap with the right small word: Kavya takes ___ her mother; they look alike. (a) after (b) out (c) off (d) up
- 5.Which word is the opposite of “dry”? (a) slow (b) cold (c) wet (d) empty
- 6.Which spelling is correct? (a) environment (b) envirnment (c) environmant (d) enviroment
- 7.Which is the formal word for “let”? (a) permit (b) purchase (c) conclude (d) reside
- 8.What is the feminine of “boy”? (a) girl (b) wife (c) queen (d) aunt
- 9.Which word is the antonym (opposite) of “present”? (a) absent (b) honest (c) modern (d) early
- 10.Complete the analogy: Lion is to roar as dog is to ___. (a) moo (b) neigh (c) hiss (d) bark
- 11.One word for: a person who hoards money and spends very little (a) tourist (b) glutton (c) miser (d) donor
- 12.Fill the gap: A piglet is the young one of a ___. (a) frog (b) pig (c) hen (d) cat
- 13.Fill the gap: A caravan is a group of ___. (a) keys (b) camels (c) bees (d) ships
- 14.One word for: people who watch a match (a) spectators (b) patients (c) pedestrians (d) passengers
- 15.Fill in the opposite: Come in through the front door and go ___ through the back door. (a) tall (b) wet (c) out (d) hot
- 16.What does the idiom “throw in the towel” mean? (a) win easily (b) dry your hands (c) give up (d) clean up
- 17.Which word means “the state of being happy”? (a) happily (b) happiness (c) happier (d) unhappy
- 18.Which prefix means “again”? (a) un- (b) pre- (c) re- (d) mis-
- 19.Which word means “not allow”? (a) disallow (b) misallow (c) unallow (d) reallow
- 20.The milk had a peculiar smell, so Mum threw it away. “Peculiar” means ___. (a) fresh (b) sweet (c) strange (d) pleasant
- 21.What is the masculine of “wife”? (a) uncle (b) son (c) husband (d) nephew
- 22.Which word means “the state of being dark”? (a) darken (b) darker (c) darkly (d) darkness
- 23.Fill the gap: a ___ of fish (a) bunch (b) herd (c) pride (d) school
- 24.Which word is an adverb? (a) decisively (b) decide (c) decision (d) decisive
- 25.Choose the right form: Let us ___ a poster for Earth Day. (a) creatively (b) creation (c) create (d) creative
- 26.Which prefix means “wrongly”? (a) re- (b) pre- (c) un- (d) mis-
- 27.Which word means “behave wrongly”? (a) disbehave (b) misbehave (c) prebehave (d) unbehave
- 28.Which word is the antonym (opposite) of “borrow”? (a) arrive (b) shout (c) lend (d) win
- 29.Fill the gap with the right small word: Never give ___; keep trying! (a) off (b) up (c) across (d) after
- 30.Pick the right word: An elephant is heavier ___ a horse. (a) then (b) than
- 31.Add the suffix: sad + ly = ? (a) sadely (b) sadley (c) saddly (d) sadly
- 32.Pick the right word: Please ___ to the next room. (a) precede (b) proceed
- 33.Arjun gave a candid answer and told us exactly what he thought. “Candid” means ___. (a) sleepy (b) secret (c) honest and open (d) false
- 34.Fill in the opposite: Ice is cold, but fire is ___. (a) slow (b) small (c) hot (d) wet
- 35.Which spelling is correct? (a) hieght (b) height (c) heighth (d) heigth
- 36.Which word is a noun? (a) inventively (b) inventive (c) invention (d) invent
- 37.Which spelling is correct? (a) garantee (b) guarentee (c) guarantee (d) guarante
- 38.Which word is spelt wrongly? (a) height (b) tomorrow (c) receive (d) addres
- 39.Fill the gap: A calf is the young one of a ___. (a) frog (b) cat (c) cow (d) hen
- 40.Fill the gap: A tadpole is the young one of a ___. (a) cat (b) cow (c) frog (d) hen
Answer key
- scared – afraid
- quick – fast
- tiger
- after
- wet
- environment
- permit
- girl
- absent
- bark
- miser
- pig
- camels
- spectators
- out
- give up
- happiness
- re-
- disallow
- strange
- husband
- darkness
- school
- decisively
- create
- mis-
- misbehave
- lend
- up
- than
- sadly
- proceed
- honest and open
- hot
- height
- invention
- guarantee
- addres
- cow
- frog
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