Vocabulary Test Worksheet
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- 1.Choose the right form: Your honesty is ___. (a) admire (b) admirable (c) admiration (d) admirably
- 2.Which word is the antonym (opposite) of “rude”? (a) wet (b) lazy (c) tall (d) polite
- 3.What does the phrasal verb “pick up” mean? (a) drop (b) push (c) throw (d) lift
- 4.Add the suffix: easy + ly = ? (a) easly (b) easily (c) easyly (d) easely
- 5.Complete the idiom: Rohan was over the ___ when he won the prize. (a) sun (b) stars (c) moon (d) hill
- 6.Complete the idiom: Stop pulling my ___; I know you are joking! (a) arm (b) ear (c) hair (d) leg
- 7.Which is the formal word for “want”? (a) conclude (b) reside (c) purchase (d) desire
- 8.Complete the analogy: Fish is to swim as bird is to ___. (a) fly (b) crawl (c) dig (d) run
- 9.Which is the everyday (informal) word for “depart”? (a) need (b) tell (c) buy (d) leave
- 10.Which pair of words are antonyms (opposites)? (a) borrow – lend (b) ill – sick (c) yell – shout (d) jump – leap
- 11.Which word is the opposite of “hard”? (a) fast (b) cold (c) soft (d) tall
- 12.Pick the right word: First we ate lunch, and ___ we played. (a) then (b) than
- 13.The gigantic whale was longer than our school bus. “Gigantic” means ___. (a) tiny (b) slow (c) noisy (d) huge
- 14.What does the phrasal verb “put off” mean? (a) wear (b) arrive (c) agree (d) postpone
- 15.The thief was apprehended by the police and taken to the station. “Apprehended” means ___. (a) freed (b) praised (c) helped (d) caught
- 16.Pick the right word: Please ___ for me at the gate. (a) weight (b) wait
- 17.Complete the analogy: Happy is to sad as rich is to ___. (a) tall (b) kind (c) poor (d) wealthy
- 18.Complete the idiom: Shouting at him will only add fuel to the ___. (a) fire (b) car (c) lamp (d) stove
- 19.Pick the right word: We go ___ school by bus. (a) too (b) two (c) to
- 20.What is the feminine of “boy”? (a) aunt (b) queen (c) wife (d) girl
- 21.Which word is spelt wrongly? (a) accommodation (b) mischievious (c) beginning (d) immediately
- 22.One word for: fit to be eaten (a) fragile (b) audible (c) edible (d) visible
- 23.Pick the right word: The family decided to ___ a puppy from the shelter. (a) adopt (b) adapt
- 24.Complete the idiom: The money we raised is just a drop in the ___. (a) ocean (b) river (c) glass (d) pond
- 25.One word for: a person who travels in a bus or train (a) passenger (b) pedestrian (c) pilot (d) driver
- 26.Pick the right word: The dog wagged its ___. (a) tale (b) tail
- 27.One word for: a book of word meanings in alphabetical order (a) novel (b) dictionary (c) diary (d) atlas
- 28.Which word means the same as “caring”? (a) loud (b) kind (c) busy (d) lazy
- 29.What does the phrasal verb “get up” mean? (a) go to sleep (b) lie down (c) sit down (d) rise from bed
- 30.Which prefix means “not”? (a) re- (b) mis- (c) pre- (d) un-
- 31.What does “preview” mean? (a) view wrongly (b) view before (c) view again (d) not view
- 32.Fill the gap with the right small word: Only five students turned ___ for practice. (a) up (b) across (c) after (d) off
- 33.One word for: able to use both hands equally well (a) illiterate (b) bilingual (c) ambidextrous (d) talkative
- 34.Pick the right word: An ___ can carry food bigger than itself. (a) aunt (b) ant
- 35.One word for: a person who gives money or blood to help others (a) thief (b) tourist (c) borrower (d) donor
- 36.Which word is a verb? (a) pure (b) purify (c) purely (d) purity
- 37.Complete the analogy: Day is to night as summer is to ___. (a) sunny (b) monsoon (c) winter (d) spring
- 38.Which word is the opposite of “dark”? (a) early (b) wet (c) light (d) loud
- 39.Which suffix means “without”? (a) -er (b) -less (c) -ness (d) -ful
- 40.Which suffix means “full of”? (a) -er (b) -less (c) -ful (d) -ly
Answer key
- admirable
- polite
- lift
- easily
- moon
- leg
- desire
- fly
- leave
- borrow – lend
- soft
- then
- huge
- postpone
- caught
- wait
- poor
- fire
- to
- girl
- mischievious
- edible
- adopt
- ocean
- passenger
- tail
- dictionary
- kind
- rise from bed
- un-
- view before
- up
- ambidextrous
- ant
- donor
- purify
- winter
- light
- -less
- -ful
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