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 phrasal verb “blow up” mean? (a) breathe (b) sing (c) fly away (d) explode
- 2.Which word is an adjective? (a) simplify (b) simplicity (c) simple (d) simply
- 3.Which word is the antonym (opposite) of “borrow”? (a) arrive (b) lend (c) shout (d) win
- 4.What is the masculine of “daughter”? (a) uncle (b) son (c) husband (d) nephew
- 5.Which word is the opposite of “in”? (a) hot (b) out (c) wet (d) up
- 6.What does the idiom “the apple of someone’s eye” mean? (a) an eye problem (b) a greedy person (c) a red fruit (d) a dearly loved person
- 7.Which word means the same as “tiny”? (a) brave (b) angry (c) giant (d) little
- 8.One word for: a person who betrays his or her country (a) tourist (b) patriot (c) optimist (d) traitor
- 9.Fill in the opposite: A cheetah is fast, but a snail is ___. (a) big (b) wet (c) loud (d) slow
- 10.Fill the gap: The young one of a duck is a ___. (a) cub (b) duckling (c) kitten (d) foal
- 11.Fill the gap: A tadpole is the young one of a ___. (a) frog (b) cow (c) cat (d) hen
- 12.One word for: that which cannot be broken (a) fragile (b) invisible (c) edible (d) unbreakable
- 13.Which word means the same as “answer”? (a) question (b) travel (c) sleep (d) reply
- 14.Choose the right form: Your honesty is ___. (a) admire (b) admiration (c) admirable (d) admirably
- 15.Pick the right word: ___ book is yours? (a) Witch (b) Which
- 16.Fill the gap: a ___ of grapes (a) swarm (b) pride (c) herd (d) bunch
- 17.One word for: fit to be eaten (a) visible (b) audible (c) fragile (d) edible
- 18.Fill the gap with the right small word: Please turn ___ the volume; the baby is sleeping. (a) across (b) down (c) after (d) up
- 19.Fill the gap: A puppy is the young one of a ___. (a) hen (b) cow (c) cat (d) dog
- 20.Pick the right word: I ___ all the answers in yesterday’s quiz. (a) new (b) knew
- 21.Pick the right word: The table is made of ___. (a) wood (b) would
- 22.Which word is the opposite of “late”? (a) early (b) sad (c) dry (d) small
- 23.Complete the idiom: The money we raised is just a drop in the ___. (a) pond (b) glass (c) ocean (d) river
- 24.What does “refill” mean? (a) not fill (b) fill before (c) fill wrongly (d) fill again
- 25.Add the suffix: easy + ly = ? (a) easyly (b) easely (c) easily (d) easly
- 26.Complete the idiom: Riya visits the zoo once in a blue ___. (a) sun (b) moon (c) sea (d) sky
- 27.What does the idiom “add fuel to the fire” mean? (a) make things worse (b) put out a fire (c) cook food (d) fill a car
- 28.One word for: a person who sells medicines (a) dentist (b) pharmacist (c) florist (d) optician
- 29.What does the phrasal verb “put up with” mean? (a) tolerate (b) build (c) decorate (d) pick up
- 30.Fill the gap: An army is a group of ___. (a) grapes (b) keys (c) ships (d) soldiers
- 31.Fill the gap: The young one of a hen is a ___. (a) kid (b) calf (c) cub (d) chick
- 32.After the long walk, Rohan was so famished that he ate four chapatis. “Famished” means ___. (a) very hungry (b) very angry (c) very sleepy (d) very proud
- 33.Which is the everyday (informal) word for “approximately”? (a) lucky (b) enough (c) often (d) about
- 34.Pick the right word: Is this ___ water bottle? (a) you're (b) your
- 35.Which pair of words are synonyms? (a) give – take (b) choose – select (c) laugh – cry (d) choose – reject
- 36.Choose the right form: Use your ___ to write a story about a flying elephant. (a) imagine (b) imaginatively (c) imagination (d) imaginative
- 37.Which word is the opposite of “friend”? (a) cousin (b) farmer (c) teacher (d) enemy
- 38.What does the idiom “burn the midnight oil” mean? (a) cook at night (b) light a lamp (c) waste oil (d) work late into the night
- 39.Which pair of words are antonyms (opposites)? (a) deep – shallow (b) ill – sick (c) big – large (d) gift – present
- 40.Pick the right word: ___ your hand if you know the answer. (a) Raise (b) Rise
Answer key
- explode
- simple
- lend
- son
- out
- a dearly loved person
- little
- traitor
- slow
- duckling
- frog
- unbreakable
- reply
- admirable
- Which
- bunch
- edible
- down
- dog
- knew
- wood
- early
- ocean
- fill again
- easily
- moon
- make things worse
- pharmacist
- tolerate
- soldiers
- chick
- very hungry
- about
- your
- choose – select
- imagination
- enemy
- work late into the night
- deep – shallow
- Raise
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