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.
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- 1.What does the idiom “pull someone’s leg” mean? (a) help someone walk (b) tease someone (c) trip someone (d) hurt someone
- 2.Add the suffix: happy + ly = ? (a) happly (b) happily (c) happiely (d) happyly
- 3.What does the phrasal verb “look out” mean? (a) be careful (b) close your eyes (c) be careless (d) go out
- 4.Choose the right form: She is a ___ doctor in Pune. (a) success (b) successful (c) successfully (d) succeed
- 5.Pick the right word: Do not walk on the hot road with ___ feet. (a) bare (b) bear
- 6.Fill the gap: a ___ of musicians (a) herd (b) flock (c) fleet (d) band
- 7.Which word is spelt wrongly? (a) guarantee (b) exaggerate (c) beginnig (d) believe
- 8.Which suffix means “full of”? (a) -ly (b) -less (c) -er (d) -ful
- 9.Complete the analogy: Judge is to court as actor is to ___. (a) stage (b) farm (c) kitchen (d) field
- 10.Which word means “in a happy way”? (a) happier (b) happiest (c) happily (d) happiness
- 11.Fill the gap: A cygnet is the young one of a ___. (a) swan (b) cow (c) cat (d) horse
- 12.What does the phrasal verb “turn up” mean? (a) go to sleep (b) leave (c) arrive (d) turn around
- 13.Pick the right word: A ___ makes honey. (a) bee (b) be
- 14.Choose the right form: Write a short ___ of your best friend. (a) descriptively (b) description (c) descriptive (d) describe
- 15.Fill in the opposite: Come in through the front door and go ___ through the back door. (a) tall (b) wet (c) hot (d) out
- 16.Complete the analogy: Pen is to write as knife is to ___. (a) draw (b) read (c) sing (d) cut
- 17.What is the masculine of “wife”? (a) nephew (b) son (c) husband (d) uncle
- 18.Complete the analogy: Farmer is to field as sailor is to ___. (a) ship (b) farm (c) school (d) court
- 19.Which spelling is correct? (a) interrup (b) interrupt (c) intterupt (d) interupt
- 20.The tiny village is remote; it takes two days to reach it by road. “Remote” means ___. (a) far away (b) very large (c) very near (d) very busy
- 21.Which word means “without a friend”? (a) friendship (b) friendly (c) friendless (d) friends
- 22.Which word means “the state of being happy”? (a) unhappy (b) happily (c) happiness (d) happier
- 23.Which word is spelt wrongly? (a) accommodation (b) vegetable (c) embarras (d) argument
- 24.Which word is the opposite of “late”? (a) dry (b) small (c) sad (d) early
- 25.One word for: a person who sees an event happen (a) lawyer (b) judge (c) victim (d) eyewitness
- 26.Which word means “full of thanks”? (a) thankless (b) thankfully (c) thanking (d) thankful
- 27.What does the idiom “back to square one” mean? (a) going backwards (b) winning a game (c) a new square shape (d) starting all over again
- 28.Which word is the opposite of “come”? (a) go (b) cry (c) eat (d) sit
- 29.Which spelling is correct? (a) exellent (b) excellent (c) excellant (d) excelent
- 30.Fill the gap: A choir is a group of ___. (a) ships (b) singers (c) sticks (d) cows
- 31.The garbage gave off a pungent smell that made us cover our noses. “Pungent” means ___. (a) pleasant (b) sweet-smelling (c) faint (d) strong-smelling
- 32.Fill in the opposite: A giraffe is tall, but a puppy is ___. (a) hot (b) loud (c) wet (d) short
- 33.Which word is the opposite of “poor”? (a) late (b) rich (c) dry (d) short
- 34.Complete the analogy: Lion is to lioness as tiger is to ___. (a) lioness (b) hen (c) mare (d) tigress
- 35.Which word is the opposite of “cold”? (a) short (b) late (c) hot (d) full
- 36.Which word means “build again”? (a) prebuild (b) misbuild (c) rebuild (d) disbuild
- 37.Pick the right word: We watched the boats ___ across the lake. (a) sail (b) sale
- 38.Fill the gap: The young one of a swan is a ___. (a) cygnet (b) kid (c) cub (d) foal
- 39.Fill in the opposite: Grandpa is old, but the baby is ___. (a) dry (b) young (c) loud (d) tall
- 40.Which pair of words are antonyms (opposites)? (a) yell – shout (b) ill – sick (c) borrow – lend (d) jump – leap
Answer key
- tease someone
- happily
- be careful
- successful
- bare
- band
- beginnig
- -ful
- stage
- happily
- swan
- arrive
- bee
- description
- out
- cut
- husband
- ship
- interrupt
- far away
- friendless
- happiness
- embarras
- early
- eyewitness
- thankful
- starting all over again
- go
- excellent
- singers
- strong-smelling
- short
- rich
- tigress
- hot
- rebuild
- sail
- cygnet
- young
- borrow – lend
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