Vocabulary Test Worksheet
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- 1.Which pair of words are antonyms (opposites)? (a) gift – present (b) victory – win (c) end – finish (d) victory – defeat
- 2.Which pair of words are antonyms (opposites)? (a) yell – shout (b) ill – sick (c) jump – leap (d) borrow – lend
- 3.Which spelling is correct? (a) knowledge (b) knoledge (c) knowlege (d) knowladge
- 4.What does the idiom “cost an arm and a leg” mean? (a) be very expensive (b) need a doctor (c) hurt badly (d) be cheap
- 5.Complete the idiom: The maths test was a piece of ___. (a) bread (b) cake (c) chalk (d) paper
- 6.Which is the formal word for “bike”? (a) residence (b) bicycle (c) error (d) occupation
- 7.Which word means the same as “gift”? (a) present (b) smile (c) river (d) shout
- 8.What does “precook” mean? (a) cook wrongly (b) not cook (c) cook before (d) cook again
- 9.Which word means “judge wrongly”? (a) unjudge (b) prejudge (c) disjudge (d) misjudge
- 10.There was an abundant crop of mangoes this year; every tree was full. “Abundant” means ___. (a) very sour (b) more than enough (c) rotten (d) very small
- 11.Which suffix means “the state of being”? (a) -ful (b) -ly (c) -ness (d) -er
- 12.Which pair of words are antonyms (opposites)? (a) arrive – reach (b) arrive – depart (c) shut – close (d) begin – start
- 13.Which spelling is correct? (a) necessary (b) neccessary (c) necesary (d) neccesary
- 14.Pick the right word: I have ___ pencils in my box. (a) to (b) too (c) two
- 15.One word for: a place where fish are kept (a) aquarium (b) aviary (c) granary (d) stable
- 16.One word for: the study of the earth and its countries (a) biology (b) history (c) astronomy (d) geography
- 17.Fill the gap: A crowd is a group of ___. (a) grapes (b) ships (c) keys (d) people
- 18.Fill the gap: The young one of a swan is a ___. (a) foal (b) cub (c) kid (d) cygnet
- 19.Which word means “full of help”? (a) helpfully (b) helpful (c) helper (d) helpless
- 20.Which word means “the state of being lazy”? (a) lazily (b) lazier (c) laziest (d) laziness
- 21.Pick the right word: Hold the string tightly or you will ___ the kite. (a) loose (b) lose
- 22.Fill the gap: a ___ of buffaloes (a) herd (b) fleet (c) swarm (d) pride
- 23.Fill the gap: a ___ of sticks (a) herd (b) bundle (c) flock (d) pride
- 24.Fill the gap: A team is a group of ___. (a) cows (b) players (c) ships (d) grapes
- 25.What does “disagree” mean? (a) agree before (b) not agree (c) agree wrongly (d) agree again
- 26.Which word is an adjective? (a) creatively (b) create (c) creation (d) creative
- 27.Choose the right form: Do not play near the railway track; it is ___. (a) dangerously (b) endanger (c) dangerous (d) danger
- 28.Which word is the antonym (opposite) of “brave”? (a) clever (b) early (c) cowardly (d) honest
- 29.Which prefix means “not”? (a) pre- (b) un- (c) mis- (d) re-
- 30.Choose the right form: Tara spoke ___ and won the debate. (a) persuade (b) persuasion (c) persuasive (d) persuasively
- 31.Which word means “the state of being sick”? (a) sicker (b) sicken (c) sickly (d) sickness
- 32.What does “rebuild” mean? (a) build wrongly (b) build before (c) build again (d) not build
- 33.Which word is the antonym (opposite) of “deep”? (a) polite (b) generous (c) ancient (d) shallow
- 34.Which prefix means “not”? (a) pre- (b) mis- (c) re- (d) dis-
- 35.Choose the right form: Use your ___ to write a story about a flying elephant. (a) imaginative (b) imaginatively (c) imagine (d) imagination
- 36.One word for: a person who studies animals (a) zoologist (b) botanist (c) geologist (d) astronomer
- 37.Which word means “not continue”? (a) precontinue (b) miscontinue (c) discontinue (d) recontinue
- 38.Fill the gap: The young one of a fox is a ___. (a) cub (b) lamb (c) calf (d) foal
- 39.Choose the right form: Your honesty is ___. (a) admirable (b) admire (c) admiration (d) admirably
- 40.Pick the right word: Riya has a ___ bicycle. (a) new (b) knew
Answer key
- victory – defeat
- borrow – lend
- knowledge
- be very expensive
- cake
- bicycle
- present
- cook before
- misjudge
- more than enough
- -ness
- arrive – depart
- necessary
- two
- aquarium
- geography
- people
- cygnet
- helpful
- laziness
- lose
- herd
- bundle
- players
- not agree
- creative
- dangerous
- cowardly
- un-
- persuasively
- sickness
- build again
- shallow
- dis-
- imagination
- zoologist
- discontinue
- cub
- admirable
- new
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