Vocabulary Test Worksheet
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- 1.Which word means “the state of being weak”? (a) weakly (b) weaker (c) weakness (d) weaken
- 2.Which is the formal word for “whole”? (a) fortunate (b) previous (c) sufficient (d) entire
- 3.Which word is spelt wrongly? (a) rhythm (b) knowledge (c) interrupt (d) argumant
- 4.Which word means “cook before”? (a) recook (b) discook (c) precook (d) miscook
- 5.Complete the analogy: Week is to day as year is to ___. (a) month (b) century (c) era (d) decade
- 6.Complete the idiom: We are all in the same ___, so let us help each other. (a) car (b) bus (c) boat (d) house
- 7.After the marathon, the runners were exhausted and lay down on the grass. “Exhausted” means ___. (a) very proud (b) very angry (c) very excited (d) very tired
- 8.Which word is the opposite of “winter”? (a) evening (b) summer (c) Sunday (d) mountain
- 9.Which word means “heat before”? (a) misheat (b) disheat (c) unheat (d) preheat
- 10.Which pair of words are antonyms (opposites)? (a) victory – defeat (b) end – finish (c) gift – present (d) victory – win
- 11.Fill the gap: The young one of a frog is a ___. (a) tadpole (b) chick (c) cub (d) lamb
- 12.What does “uncommon” mean? (a) common before (b) common again (c) common wrongly (d) not common
- 13.Fill the gap: A band is a group of ___. (a) ships (b) musicians (c) keys (d) cows
- 14.What does the phrasal verb “take off” mean? (a) buy (b) remove clothes (c) wash (d) wear
- 15.Pick the right word: A brown ___ came out of the cave. (a) bear (b) bare
- 16.Fill in the opposite: Grandpa is old, but the baby is ___. (a) tall (b) young (c) loud (d) dry
- 17.One word for: a doctor who treats sick animals (a) optician (b) florist (c) dentist (d) veterinarian
- 18.Fill in the opposite: Riya came first in the race and Dev came ___. (a) hot (b) tall (c) wet (d) last
- 19.Choose the right form: My sister and I like ___ games. (a) different (b) difference (c) differ (d) differently
- 20.Complete the idiom: That shop sells sweets that cost an arm and a ___. (a) hand (b) nose (c) foot (d) leg
- 21.What does the phrasal verb “run into” mean? (a) avoid someone (b) meet by chance (c) run indoors (d) race someone
- 22.Which word is a verb? (a) describe (b) descriptively (c) description (d) descriptive
- 23.Fill the gap: A bundle is a group of ___. (a) bees (b) sticks (c) sailors (d) lions
- 24.Pick the right word: The table is made of ___. (a) would (b) wood
- 25.What does the idiom “add fuel to the fire” mean? (a) put out a fire (b) fill a car (c) cook food (d) make things worse
- 26.What is the feminine of “tiger”? (a) mare (b) tigress (c) hen (d) lioness
- 27.Pick the right word: The bus was ___ at the red light. (a) stationary (b) stationery
- 28.Fill in the opposite: We push a door to open it and ___ it to close it. (a) pull (b) sing (c) eat (d) cut
- 29.Which is the everyday (informal) word for “sufficient”? (a) often (b) lucky (c) enough (d) about
- 30.Which word means “not respect”? (a) disrespect (b) unrespect (c) rerespect (d) prerespect
- 31.What does the phrasal verb “switch off” mean? (a) buy a light (b) make a light go out (c) make a light go on (d) break a light
- 32.Which suffix means “without”? (a) -ful (b) -less (c) -ness (d) -er
- 33.One word for: a person who writes poems (a) painter (b) poet (c) singer (d) tailor
- 34.Which word means “without help”? (a) helpful (b) helper (c) helping (d) helpless
- 35.Pick the right word: The plants are ___ without water. (a) dyeing (b) dying
- 36.One word for: a person who always expects the worst (a) tourist (b) dentist (c) pessimist (d) optimist
- 37.Pick the right word: I ___ two idlis for breakfast. (a) eight (b) ate
- 38.Which word means “the state of being good”? (a) goodness (b) goods (c) better (d) goodly
- 39.What is the masculine of “hostess”? (a) waiter (b) hero (c) host (d) actor
- 40.Which word is the opposite of “poor”? (a) short (b) dry (c) late (d) rich
Answer key
- weakness
- entire
- argumant
- precook
- month
- boat
- very tired
- summer
- preheat
- victory – defeat
- tadpole
- not common
- musicians
- remove clothes
- bear
- young
- veterinarian
- last
- different
- leg
- meet by chance
- describe
- sticks
- wood
- make things worse
- tigress
- stationary
- pull
- enough
- disrespect
- make a light go out
- -less
- poet
- helpless
- dying
- pessimist
- ate
- goodness
- host
- rich
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