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.Which word is the opposite of “long”? (a) happy (b) wet (c) short (d) early
- 2.Which is the formal word for “help”? (a) reside (b) commence (c) assist (d) purchase
- 3.Fill in the opposite: Come in through the front door and go ___ through the back door. (a) wet (b) hot (c) tall (d) out
- 4.Pick the right word: ___ you like some tea? (a) Wood (b) Would
- 5.Which word is the opposite of “start”? (a) eat (b) sing (c) cry (d) stop
- 6.One word for: a person who is being treated by a doctor (a) visitor (b) patient (c) surgeon (d) nurse
- 7.Which pair of words are synonyms? (a) rich – poor (b) wet – dry (c) quick – fast (d) quick – slow
- 8.Which word means “one who paints”? (a) paints (b) painter (c) painted (d) painting
- 9.Which prefix means “again”? (a) mis- (b) un- (c) pre- (d) re-
- 10.Complete the idiom: The two friends decided to bury the ___. (a) hatchet (b) bone (c) box (d) treasure
- 11.One word for: able to use both hands equally well (a) bilingual (b) ambidextrous (c) illiterate (d) talkative
- 12.Complete the analogy: Book is to library as money is to ___. (a) school (b) garden (c) bank (d) park
- 13.Pick the right word: Please give me a ___ of cake. (a) peace (b) piece
- 14.Which word is a noun? (a) describe (b) descriptively (c) description (d) descriptive
- 15.What is the masculine of “peahen”? (a) lion (b) peacock (c) bull (d) rooster
- 16.Fill the gap: The young one of a tiger is a ___. (a) kitten (b) cub (c) lamb (d) foal
- 17.Which pair of words are antonyms (opposites)? (a) glad – happy (b) jump – leap (c) cheap – expensive (d) talk – speak
- 18.Add the suffix: silly + ness = ? (a) sillyness (b) sillines (c) silines (d) silliness
- 19.Which is the formal word for “ask”? (a) reside (b) assist (c) conclude (d) enquire
- 20.Which word is the antonym (opposite) of “lend”? (a) sing (b) arrive (c) borrow (d) float
- 21.After the marathon, the runners were exhausted and lay down on the grass. “Exhausted” means ___. (a) very angry (b) very excited (c) very proud (d) very tired
- 22.Which word is the opposite of “winter”? (a) Sunday (b) evening (c) summer (d) mountain
- 23.What does the idiom “once in a blue moon” mean? (a) very rarely (b) at midnight (c) every night (d) very quickly
- 24.Which suffix means “without”? (a) -ful (b) -ness (c) -less (d) -er
- 25.What does the idiom “a red-letter day” mean? (a) a day of danger (b) a special, happy day (c) a sad day (d) a postal holiday
- 26.Which suffix means “in a … way”? (a) -ful (b) -er (c) -ly (d) -less
- 27.What does “unwell” mean? (a) well again (b) well wrongly (c) well before (d) not well
- 28.Which word means “one who helps”? (a) helper (b) helpless (c) helpful (d) helpfully
- 29.Fill the gap: A choir is a group of ___. (a) singers (b) ships (c) cows (d) sticks
- 30.Which word is spelt wrongly? (a) grammer (b) excellent (c) calendar (d) receive
- 31.Which is the everyday (informal) word for “immediately”? (a) lucky (b) often (c) about (d) right away
- 32.Choose the right form: Your honesty is ___. (a) admirable (b) admire (c) admiration (d) admirably
- 33.Pick the right word: We ___ our bicycles to the park yesterday. (a) road (b) rode
- 34.What does the phrasal verb “wake up” mean? (a) stop sleeping (b) stand up (c) go to bed (d) dream
- 35.Pick the right word: The guide ___ us through the forest yesterday. (a) led (b) lead
- 36.Which pair of words are antonyms (opposites)? (a) ill – sick (b) yell – shout (c) jump – leap (d) borrow – lend
- 37.What does the phrasal verb “put up with” mean? (a) decorate (b) build (c) pick up (d) tolerate
- 38.Which spelling is correct? (a) adres (b) address (c) adress (d) addres
- 39.Pick the right word: Come ___ and sit with me. (a) hear (b) here
- 40.Which pair of words are synonyms? (a) day – night (b) friend – enemy (c) friend – pal (d) push – pull
Answer key
- short
- assist
- out
- Would
- stop
- patient
- quick – fast
- painter
- re-
- hatchet
- ambidextrous
- bank
- piece
- description
- peacock
- cub
- cheap – expensive
- silliness
- enquire
- borrow
- very tired
- summer
- very rarely
- -less
- a special, happy day
- -ly
- not well
- helper
- singers
- grammer
- right away
- admirable
- rode
- stop sleeping
- led
- borrow – lend
- tolerate
- address
- here
- friend – pal
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