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.Fill the gap: a ___ of penguins (a) herd (b) pride (c) fleet (d) colony
- 2.Which prefix means “again”? (a) pre- (b) mis- (c) re- (d) un-
- 3.Pick the right word: The test was ___ easy. (a) quiet (b) quite
- 4.Complete the analogy: Morning is to breakfast as night is to ___. (a) breakfast (b) dinner (c) lunch (d) tiffin
- 5.Which word is the opposite of “big”? (a) small (b) happy (c) fast (d) wet
- 6.Pick the right word: I ___ that storybook last week. (a) read (b) red
- 7.What does the idiom “feel blue” mean? (a) feel cold (b) turn blue (c) feel lucky (d) feel sad
- 8.Fill the gap with the right small word: Hurry ___, or we will miss the bus! (a) after (b) up (c) off (d) across
- 9.Complete the idiom: The test was hard, but I had to bite the ___ and finish it. (a) bullet (b) apple (c) pencil (d) biscuit
- 10.What does the idiom “pull someone’s leg” mean? (a) tease someone (b) trip someone (c) help someone walk (d) hurt someone
- 11.Which word is the antonym (opposite) of “export”? (a) accept (b) import (c) whisper (d) float
- 12.Pick the right word: A ___ ran across the forest path. (a) dear (b) deer
- 13.Which prefix means “not”? (a) re- (b) mis- (c) un- (d) pre-
- 14.Fill the gap: A tadpole is the young one of a ___. (a) cat (b) cow (c) frog (d) hen
- 15.Which suffix means “one who does something”? (a) -ly (b) -less (c) -ness (d) -er
- 16.What does the idiom “give the cold shoulder” mean? (a) hurt a shoulder (b) feel very cold (c) ignore someone (d) hug someone
- 17.Pick the right word: Riya ___ me on my neat handwriting. (a) complimented (b) complemented
- 18.Which spelling is correct? (a) conscence (b) consience (c) conscience (d) concience
- 19.What is the feminine of “grandfather”? (a) queen (b) grandmother (c) aunt (d) niece
- 20.Fill the gap: A bouquet is a bunch of ___. (a) ships (b) cows (c) flowers (d) wolves
- 21.Complete the idiom: Could you lend me a ___ with these heavy bags? (a) head (b) hand (c) foot (d) leg
- 22.Which is the formal word for “tell”? (a) conclude (b) inform (c) purchase (d) reside
- 23.Pick the right word: The award went to an ___ scientist. (a) eminent (b) imminent
- 24.Pick the right word: Stop when the traffic light is ___. (a) read (b) red
- 25.Pick the right word: We ___ playing when it started to rain. (a) were (b) where
- 26.Fill in the opposite: The sun shines in the day; the moon shines at ___. (a) school (b) morning (c) night (d) lunch
- 27.Pick the right word: Her red dupatta ___ her white kurta perfectly. (a) complimented (b) complemented
- 28.Which word is an adjective? (a) protective (b) protect (c) protectively (d) protection
- 29.One word for: a person who does not eat meat (a) pedestrian (b) omnivore (c) vegetarian (d) carnivore
- 30.Add the suffix: teach + er = ? (a) teachere (b) teachar (c) teachor (d) teacher
- 31.Which pair of words are antonyms (opposites)? (a) big – large (b) brave – bold (c) quick – fast (d) brave – cowardly
- 32.Which word means “in a sad way”? (a) sadder (b) sadden (c) sadly (d) sadness
- 33.Which word means the same as “huge”? (a) giant (b) quiet (c) kind (d) tiny
- 34.Which is the formal word for “get”? (a) receive (b) inform (c) assist (d) reside
- 35.Dev is very frugal; he saves money and never wastes it. “Frugal” means ___. (a) very lazy (b) very generous (c) very rich (d) careful with money
- 36.What is the feminine of “gentleman”? (a) aunt (b) bride (c) lady (d) queen
- 37.Add the suffix: dance + er = ? (a) dancar (b) dansor (c) danceer (d) dancer
- 38.Which word is spelt wrongly? (a) library (b) independent (c) espescially (d) conscience
- 39.Fill the gap: A swarm is a group of ___. (a) ships (b) grapes (c) bees (d) cows
- 40.Fill in the opposite: The shop is near, but the school is ___. (a) wet (b) sad (c) far (d) hot
Answer key
- colony
- re-
- quite
- dinner
- small
- read
- feel sad
- up
- bullet
- tease someone
- import
- deer
- un-
- frog
- -er
- ignore someone
- complimented
- conscience
- grandmother
- flowers
- hand
- inform
- eminent
- red
- were
- night
- complemented
- protective
- vegetarian
- teacher
- brave – cowardly
- sadly
- giant
- receive
- careful with money
- lady
- dancer
- espescially
- bees
- far
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