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.One word for: a person who walks along a road (a) passenger (b) cyclist (c) driver (d) pedestrian
- 2.Fill the gap: A troop is a group of ___. (a) monkeys (b) grapes (c) ships (d) bees
- 3.Pick the right word: Diya combs her long ___ every morning. (a) hair (b) hare
- 4.What does the idiom “cry over spilt milk” mean? (a) worry about the past (b) be very hungry (c) cry loudly (d) waste milk
- 5.Pick the right word: The ___ of the snowy mountains was beautiful. (a) site (b) cite (c) sight
- 6.Which word means the same as “below”? (a) above (b) under (c) behind (d) beside
- 7.What does “miscount” mean? (a) not count (b) count again (c) count wrongly (d) count before
- 8.Which is the formal word for “try”? (a) reside (b) inform (c) attempt (d) purchase
- 9.Pick the right word: Come ___ and sit with me. (a) hear (b) here
- 10.Pick the right word: Riya joined a computer ___. (a) course (b) coarse
- 11.What is the masculine of “lioness”? (a) bull (b) lion (c) tiger (d) king
- 12.Pick the right word: I ___ a letter to Nani every month. (a) right (b) write
- 13.Which word means “the state of being kind”? (a) kinder (b) kindly (c) kindest (d) kindness
- 14.What does the idiom “cost an arm and a leg” mean? (a) be cheap (b) need a doctor (c) hurt badly (d) be very expensive
- 15.Complete the idiom: The maths test was a piece of ___. (a) bread (b) chalk (c) cake (d) paper
- 16.Which word is a noun? (a) describe (b) description (c) descriptive (d) descriptively
- 17.Fill the gap: a ___ of goats (a) herd (b) fleet (c) bunch (d) swarm
- 18.What does “misplace” mean? (a) not place (b) place before (c) place wrongly (d) place again
- 19.Which word means “not clear”? (a) misclear (b) preclear (c) disclear (d) unclear
- 20.Which word means “one who farms”? (a) farmer (b) farmed (c) farmland (d) farming
- 21.What does the phrasal verb “hand in” mean? (a) hold (b) lose (c) submit (d) keep
- 22.Fill in the opposite: Come in through the front door and go ___ through the back door. (a) wet (b) tall (c) out (d) hot
- 23.The children were rowdy on the bus, shouting and jumping on the seats. “Rowdy” means ___. (a) noisy and rough (b) quiet and polite (c) sad (d) sleepy
- 24.Complete the analogy: Puppy is to dog as calf is to ___. (a) hen (b) goat (c) horse (d) cow
- 25.Add the suffix: bake + er = ? (a) baker (b) bakar (c) bakeer (d) bakor
- 26.Complete the analogy: Delhi is to India as Kathmandu is to ___. (a) Bhutan (b) Sri Lanka (c) Bangladesh (d) Nepal
- 27.Which pair of words are antonyms (opposites)? (a) yell – shout (b) borrow – lend (c) jump – leap (d) ill – sick
- 28.Pick the right word: A spider has ___ legs. (a) eight (b) ate
- 29.Add the suffix: shop + er = ? (a) shoppar (b) shopor (c) shopper (d) shoper
- 30.Which is the everyday (informal) word for “require”? (a) buy (b) tell (c) need (d) live
- 31.Fill the gap with the right small word: Grandma brought ___ five children. (a) after (b) off (c) across (d) up
- 32.Fill the gap with the right small word: “UN” stands ___ United Nations. (a) for (b) off (c) after (d) up
- 33.Which is the everyday (informal) word for “apologise”? (a) help (b) say sorry (c) buy (d) live
- 34.What does the idiom “bite the bullet” mean? (a) eat something hard (b) break a tooth (c) bravely do a hard thing (d) get angry
- 35.Which word is the opposite of “young”? (a) old (b) fast (c) loud (d) wet
- 36.Fill in the opposite: Riya came first in the race and Dev came ___. (a) last (b) tall (c) wet (d) hot
- 37.Fill in the opposite: We push a door to open it and ___ it to close it. (a) eat (b) sing (c) pull (d) cut
- 38.Which spelling is correct? (a) heigth (b) heighth (c) height (d) hieght
- 39.Which word is spelt wrongly? (a) tomorrow (b) address (c) commitee (d) beginning
- 40.Which prefix means “again”? (a) un- (b) re- (c) pre- (d) mis-
Answer key
- pedestrian
- monkeys
- hair
- worry about the past
- sight
- under
- count wrongly
- attempt
- here
- course
- lion
- write
- kindness
- be very expensive
- cake
- description
- herd
- place wrongly
- unclear
- farmer
- submit
- out
- noisy and rough
- cow
- baker
- Nepal
- borrow – lend
- eight
- shopper
- need
- up
- for
- say sorry
- bravely do a hard thing
- old
- last
- pull
- height
- commitee
- re-
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