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.Fill the gap: The young one of a duck is a ___. (a) duckling (b) cub (c) foal (d) kitten
- 2.What does the idiom “lend a hand” mean? (a) shake hands (b) borrow money (c) give a hand away (d) help someone
- 3.Which prefix means “not”? (a) re- (b) mis- (c) dis- (d) pre-
- 4.The canteen was deserted; there was not a single person inside. “Deserted” means ___. (a) newly painted (b) very crowded (c) empty of people (d) very dirty
- 5.Choose the right form: If you practise daily, you will ___. (a) success (b) successfully (c) succeed (d) successful
- 6.Which word means “not tidy”? (a) retidy (b) mistidy (c) pretidy (d) untidy
- 7.Fill in the opposite: Riya came first in the race and Dev came ___. (a) tall (b) hot (c) wet (d) last
- 8.Pick the right word: Camels ___ well to life in the desert. (a) adopt (b) adapt
- 9.One word for: a person who betrays his or her country (a) tourist (b) optimist (c) traitor (d) patriot
- 10.Fill the gap: a ___ of eggs (a) herd (b) fleet (c) clutch (d) swarm
- 11.Fill in the opposite: Winter is cold, but summer is ___. (a) small (b) sad (c) slow (d) hot
- 12.Which word is an adjective? (a) protective (b) protectively (c) protection (d) protect
- 13.What does “discontinue” mean? (a) not continue (b) continue wrongly (c) continue before (d) continue again
- 14.What does the phrasal verb “take after” mean? (a) look like a parent (b) take later (c) run behind (d) follow a road
- 15.Which pair of words are synonyms? (a) hot – cold (b) stone – rock (c) win – lose (d) up – down
- 16.Fill the gap: A troop is a group of ___. (a) grapes (b) bees (c) ships (d) monkeys
- 17.Which prefix means “before”? (a) mis- (b) re- (c) un- (d) pre-
- 18.Fill the gap with the right small word: Pick ___ the paper from the floor. (a) after (b) up (c) across (d) off
- 19.Complete the idiom: We will finish this by hook or by ___. (a) crook (b) book (c) cook (d) look
- 20.Choose the right form: The Taj Mahal is a famous tourist ___. (a) attractively (b) attraction (c) attractive (d) attract
- 21.Pick the right word: ___ the best singer in our class! (a) Your (b) You're
- 22.Pick the right word: In the ___, people wrote letters with ink pens. (a) past (b) passed
- 23.Pick the right word: We sat ___ the river and ate lunch. (a) by (b) bye (c) buy
- 24.One word for: a place where sick people are treated (a) orphanage (b) museum (c) hospital (d) library
- 25.Which pair of words are antonyms (opposites)? (a) cheap – expensive (b) glad – happy (c) jump – leap (d) talk – speak
- 26.Which word is spelt wrongly? (a) disappear (b) Wednsday (c) beautiful (d) accommodation
- 27.Fill the gap: A joey is the young one of a ___. (a) cow (b) kangaroo (c) cat (d) hen
- 28.Which word is the antonym (opposite) of “private”? (a) ancient (b) public (c) polite (d) early
- 29.Pick the right word: The ___ in the story flew on a broom. (a) witch (b) which
- 30.What does the phrasal verb “give up” mean? (a) give a gift (b) stand up (c) stop trying (d) keep going
- 31.Kavya is meticulous; she checks every sum twice before handing in her work. “Meticulous” means ___. (a) very careful (b) very careless (c) very lazy (d) very fast
- 32.Which word is a noun? (a) imaginatively (b) imagine (c) imagination (d) imaginative
- 33.Pick the right word: India ___ the cricket match. (a) one (b) won
- 34.One word for: the study of past events (a) history (b) astronomy (c) biology (d) geography
- 35.The patient’s condition was critical, so the doctors acted fast. “Critical” means ___. (a) very simple (b) very good (c) very funny (d) very serious
- 36.Which word is the antonym (opposite) of “selfish”? (a) rude (b) lazy (c) quiet (d) generous
- 37.Fill in the opposite: Ice is cold, but fire is ___. (a) wet (b) slow (c) hot (d) small
- 38.What does the idiom “by hook or by crook” mean? (a) with help (b) by any means (c) by fishing (d) very slowly
- 39.Pick the right word: The ___ of my shoe is broken. (a) heel (b) heal
- 40.Pick the right word: I ___ what is inside the box. (a) wonder (b) wander
Answer key
- duckling
- help someone
- dis-
- empty of people
- succeed
- untidy
- last
- adapt
- traitor
- clutch
- hot
- protective
- not continue
- look like a parent
- stone – rock
- monkeys
- pre-
- up
- crook
- attraction
- You're
- past
- by
- hospital
- cheap – expensive
- Wednsday
- kangaroo
- public
- witch
- stop trying
- very careful
- imagination
- won
- history
- very serious
- generous
- hot
- by any means
- heel
- wonder
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