Vocabulary Test Worksheet
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- 1.Complete the idiom: Our plan failed, so we were back to square ___. (a) ten (b) two (c) zero (d) one
- 2.Which is the everyday (informal) word for “provide”? (a) live (b) tell (c) give (d) buy
- 3.Choose the right form: My sister and I like ___ games. (a) differently (b) different (c) differ (d) difference
- 4.Which is the everyday (informal) word for “previously”? (a) often (b) enough (c) about (d) before
- 5.What is the feminine of “drake”? (a) duck (b) mare (c) ewe (d) hen
- 6.Pick the right word: The bus was ___ at the red light. (a) stationary (b) stationery
- 7.Which word means “without a friend”? (a) friendship (b) friendly (c) friendless (d) friends
- 8.Which spelling is correct? (a) conscence (b) concience (c) conscience (d) consience
- 9.Which spelling is correct? (a) embaress (b) embarass (c) embarrass (d) embarras
- 10.Which word is spelt wrongly? (a) government (b) library (c) argument (d) garantee
- 11.One word for: a person who stitches clothes (a) cobbler (b) tailor (c) barber (d) carpenter
- 12.Pick the right word: In the ___, people wrote letters with ink pens. (a) past (b) passed
- 13.Pick the right word: Come ___ and sit with me. (a) hear (b) here
- 14.Which word is the opposite of “start”? (a) eat (b) cry (c) sing (d) stop
- 15.Complete the analogy: Eye is to see as ear is to ___. (a) hear (b) smell (c) touch (d) taste
- 16.Complete the idiom: After the argument, Zoya gave her brother the cold ___. (a) foot (b) hand (c) shoulder (d) water
- 17.What does the idiom “cry over spilt milk” mean? (a) be very hungry (b) worry about the past (c) waste milk (d) cry loudly
- 18.Which word means “hear wrongly”? (a) unhear (b) mishear (c) prehear (d) dishear
- 19.Fill the gap: A flock is a group of ___. (a) keys (b) lions (c) sheep (d) ships
- 20.Fill in the opposite: A giraffe is tall, but a puppy is ___. (a) wet (b) short (c) loud (d) hot
- 21.Choose the right form: Kashmir is famous for its natural ___. (a) beautify (b) beauty (c) beautifully (d) beautiful
- 22.Complete the idiom: We are all in the same ___, so let us help each other. (a) house (b) bus (c) car (d) boat
- 23.Complete the analogy: Cold is to winter as hot is to ___. (a) night (b) summer (c) autumn (d) snow
- 24.Pick the right word: I bought a ___ of shoes. (a) pair (b) pear
- 25.Fill the gap: a ___ of cards (a) herd (b) pack (c) fleet (d) flock
- 26.One word for: an animal that eats both plants and meat (a) carnivore (b) herbivore (c) scavenger (d) omnivore
- 27.Pick the right word: The Thar is a hot, dry ___. (a) dessert (b) desert
- 28.Which pair of words are antonyms (opposites)? (a) victory – defeat (b) gift – present (c) end – finish (d) victory – win
- 29.What does the idiom “the apple of someone’s eye” mean? (a) a red fruit (b) a dearly loved person (c) an eye problem (d) a greedy person
- 30.Pick the right word: The test was ___ easy. (a) quiet (b) quite
- 31.One word for: a book of word meanings in alphabetical order (a) atlas (b) dictionary (c) novel (d) diary
- 32.Fill the gap: a ___ of wolves (a) flock (b) fleet (c) bunch (d) pack
- 33.One word for: the study of past events (a) biology (b) astronomy (c) history (d) geography
- 34.Choose the right form: There is a big ___ between a frog and a toad. (a) differently (b) differ (c) different (d) difference
- 35.Complete the analogy: Judge is to court as actor is to ___. (a) field (b) kitchen (c) farm (d) stage
- 36.The crowd at the stadium was boisterous, shouting and cheering loudly. “Boisterous” means ___. (a) noisy and lively (b) sad (c) quiet and calm (d) sleepy
- 37.The mango was succulent, and juice ran down my chin. “Succulent” means ___. (a) sour (b) juicy (c) dry (d) hard
- 38.What does the phrasal verb “run away” mean? (a) sleep (b) escape (c) stay (d) return
- 39.What does “rewrite” mean? (a) not write (b) write wrongly (c) write before (d) write again
- 40.Fill in the opposite: We push a door to open it and ___ it to close it. (a) cut (b) pull (c) eat (d) sing
Answer key
- one
- give
- different
- before
- duck
- stationary
- friendless
- conscience
- embarrass
- garantee
- tailor
- past
- here
- stop
- hear
- shoulder
- worry about the past
- mishear
- sheep
- short
- beauty
- boat
- summer
- pair
- pack
- omnivore
- desert
- victory – defeat
- a dearly loved person
- quite
- dictionary
- pack
- history
- difference
- stage
- noisy and lively
- juicy
- escape
- write again
- pull
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