Vocabulary Test Worksheet
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- 1.Which pair of words are synonyms? (a) shy – bold (b) tall – short (c) shy – timid (d) old – new
- 2.Pick the right word: Can I have ___ water, please? (a) sum (b) some
- 3.One word for: a period of a hundred years (a) millennium (b) century (c) fortnight (d) decade
- 4.Which pair of words are antonyms (opposites)? (a) big – large (b) deep – shallow (c) ill – sick (d) gift – present
- 5.Complete the idiom: The maths test was a piece of ___. (a) bread (b) cake (c) paper (d) chalk
- 6.Fill in the opposite: A feather is light, but a stone is ___. (a) loud (b) sweet (c) heavy (d) wet
- 7.Which word is spelt wrongly? (a) necessary (b) Wednesday (c) pronunciation (d) tommorow
- 8.Which is the formal word for “money”? (a) error (b) funds (c) residence (d) occupation
- 9.Choose the right form: You must ___ which book to read first. (a) decision (b) decisively (c) decide (d) decisive
- 10.Pick the right word: A brown ___ came out of the cave. (a) bare (b) bear
- 11.Fill the gap: The young one of a dog is a ___. (a) calf (b) foal (c) kitten (d) puppy
- 12.Which word means “full of joy”? (a) joyfully (b) enjoy (c) joyful (d) joyless
- 13.After the long walk, Rohan was so famished that he ate four chapatis. “Famished” means ___. (a) very sleepy (b) very hungry (c) very proud (d) very angry
- 14.What does “unsafe” mean? (a) safe wrongly (b) safe again (c) not safe (d) safe before
- 15.Which prefix means “again”? (a) re- (b) mis- (c) pre- (d) un-
- 16.Pick the right word: Please give me a ___ of cake. (a) peace (b) piece
- 17.Fill in the opposite: Grandpa is old, but the baby is ___. (a) dry (b) loud (c) tall (d) young
- 18.Which pair of words are antonyms (opposites)? (a) glad – happy (b) cheap – expensive (c) talk – speak (d) jump – leap
- 19.Pick the right word: A rooster is a ___ bird. (a) mail (b) male
- 20.Which is the formal word for “go up”? (a) conclude (b) purchase (c) reside (d) ascend
- 21.What does the phrasal verb “take off” mean? (a) wear (b) wash (c) remove clothes (d) buy
- 22.Which pair of words are synonyms? (a) choose – reject (b) give – take (c) choose – select (d) laugh – cry
- 23.Which word is an adverb? (a) beautifully (b) beauty (c) beautiful (d) beautify
- 24.What does the idiom “give the cold shoulder” mean? (a) feel very cold (b) hug someone (c) hurt a shoulder (d) ignore someone
- 25.Which word is the opposite of “long”? (a) wet (b) early (c) short (d) happy
- 26.Pick the right word: Dark clouds showed that rain was ___. (a) eminent (b) imminent
- 27.Complete the idiom: Can you keep an ___ on my bag for a minute? (a) arm (b) ear (c) hand (d) eye
- 28.What does the idiom “when pigs fly” mean? (a) very soon (b) never (c) in summer (d) every morning
- 29.Fill the gap: a ___ of mountains (a) range (b) flock (c) swarm (d) pride
- 30.Complete the analogy: Grass is to green as sky is to ___. (a) red (b) pink (c) blue (d) brown
- 31.Complete the analogy: Light is to dark as noise is to ___. (a) music (b) sound (c) silence (d) song
- 32.Which is the formal word for “see”? (a) reside (b) require (c) observe (d) purchase
- 33.Which word is the opposite of “dark”? (a) light (b) wet (c) loud (d) early
- 34.Which word means the same as “finish”? (a) jump (b) start (c) gift (d) end
- 35.After the monsoon, the village had an ample supply of water. “Ample” means ___. (a) salty (b) more than enough (c) very little (d) dirty
- 36.Which word is the opposite of “stop”? (a) sit (b) eat (c) sing (d) start
- 37.The cheetah is a ferocious hunter that chases its prey at great speed. “Ferocious” means ___. (a) tiny (b) fierce and wild (c) lazy (d) gentle
- 38.Pick the right word: I can ___ the birds singing. (a) here (b) hear
- 39.Fill the gap with the right small word: Please hand ___ your notebooks by Friday. (a) in (b) after (c) across (d) up
- 40.Which is the formal word for “kids”? (a) colleagues (b) citizens (c) children (d) adults
Answer key
- shy – timid
- some
- century
- deep – shallow
- cake
- heavy
- tommorow
- funds
- decide
- bear
- puppy
- joyful
- very hungry
- not safe
- re-
- piece
- young
- cheap – expensive
- male
- ascend
- remove clothes
- choose – select
- beautifully
- ignore someone
- short
- imminent
- eye
- never
- range
- blue
- silence
- observe
- light
- end
- more than enough
- start
- fierce and wild
- hear
- in
- children
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