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.
NameDateTime takenScore ___ / 40
- 1.One word for: a person who travels in a bus or train (a) pilot (b) driver (c) passenger (d) pedestrian
- 2.Pick the right word: Ira solved the maths ___ quickly. (a) sum (b) some
- 3.Which word is the opposite of “soft”? (a) short (b) hard (c) slow (d) hot
- 4.Which is the everyday (informal) word for “demonstrate”? (a) need (b) show (c) live (d) buy
- 5.Pick the right word: I have ___ pencils in my box. (a) two (b) to (c) too
- 6.Which is the formal word for “before”? (a) subsequently (b) approximately (c) frequently (d) previously
- 7.What does “reheat” mean? (a) heat before (b) heat again (c) heat wrongly (d) not heat
- 8.Complete the analogy: Painter is to brush as writer is to ___. (a) pen (b) saw (c) spade (d) needle
- 9.Fill in the opposite: A giraffe is tall, but a puppy is ___. (a) hot (b) wet (c) loud (d) short
- 10.Which word is spelt wrongly? (a) recommend (b) achieve (c) consience (d) believe
- 11.Which is the everyday (informal) word for “subsequently”? (a) often (b) later (c) about (d) enough
- 12.Which word is the antonym (opposite) of “generous”? (a) early (b) selfish (c) polite (d) brave
- 13.Pick the right word: A phone is a useful ___. (a) devise (b) device
- 14.One word for: a place where bees are kept (a) granary (b) apiary (c) aviary (d) aquarium
- 15.Which word is a verb? (a) imagine (b) imaginative (c) imagination (d) imaginatively
- 16.Fill the gap: A gang is a group of ___. (a) grapes (b) thieves (c) ships (d) cows
- 17.Which spelling is correct? (a) conscience (b) conscence (c) consience (d) concience
- 18.Which word means “full of beauty”? (a) beautiful (b) beauty (c) beautifully (d) beautify
- 19.What does the phrasal verb “make up” mean? (a) tidy up (b) paint (c) tell the truth (d) invent a story
- 20.What is the feminine of “monk”? (a) queen (b) bride (c) aunt (d) nun
- 21.Fill the gap: a ___ of cars (a) swarm (b) herd (c) flock (d) fleet
- 22.Which word means the same as “fast”? (a) heavy (b) quick (c) kind (d) empty
- 23.Which is the formal word for “go down”? (a) descend (b) reside (c) purchase (d) require
- 24.Which word is the antonym (opposite) of “cheap”? (a) expensive (b) modern (c) brave (d) honest
- 25.Fill in the opposite: The sun shines in the day; the moon shines at ___. (a) school (b) lunch (c) morning (d) night
- 26.One word for: a person who walks along a road (a) pedestrian (b) cyclist (c) passenger (d) driver
- 27.What does the phrasal verb “bring up” mean? (a) forget a child (b) raise a child (c) carry upstairs (d) punish
- 28.Which word means the same as “huge”? (a) kind (b) giant (c) tiny (d) quiet
- 29.Fill in the opposite: Grandpa is old, but the baby is ___. (a) loud (b) dry (c) young (d) tall
- 30.Which prefix means “before”? (a) pre- (b) un- (c) re- (d) mis-
- 31.Which is the formal word for “many”? (a) sufficient (b) previous (c) numerous (d) fortunate
- 32.What is the feminine of “grandfather”? (a) grandmother (b) niece (c) queen (d) aunt
- 33.Which word is spelt wrongly? (a) disappear (b) beginning (c) occasion (d) Wensday
- 34.The traveller was weary after walking all day in the sun. “Weary” means ___. (a) very happy (b) very tired (c) very rich (d) very angry
- 35.Fill the gap with the right small word: The rich man gave ___ all his money to the poor. (a) after (b) across (c) off (d) away
- 36.Which word means the same as “correct”? (a) empty (b) wrong (c) right (d) late
- 37.What is the masculine of “sister”? (a) husband (b) nephew (c) brother (d) uncle
- 38.What does the idiom “raining cats and dogs” mean? (a) animals are falling (b) raining very heavily (c) pets are fighting (d) a light shower
- 39.Which prefix means “not”? (a) pre- (b) mis- (c) re- (d) dis-
- 40.Pick the right word: The ___ of the story is “always tell the truth”. (a) moral (b) morale
Answer key
- passenger
- sum
- hard
- show
- two
- previously
- heat again
- pen
- short
- consience
- later
- selfish
- device
- apiary
- imagine
- thieves
- conscience
- beautiful
- invent a story
- nun
- fleet
- quick
- descend
- expensive
- night
- pedestrian
- raise a child
- giant
- young
- pre-
- numerous
- grandmother
- Wensday
- very tired
- away
- right
- brother
- raining very heavily
- dis-
- moral
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