Vocabulary Test Worksheet
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- 1.What does the idiom “the apple of someone’s eye” mean? (a) an eye problem (b) a red fruit (c) a greedy person (d) a dearly loved person
- 2.One word for: a place where sick people are treated (a) library (b) orphanage (c) museum (d) hospital
- 3.Complete the analogy: Farmer is to field as sailor is to ___. (a) school (b) farm (c) ship (d) court
- 4.Which word is a noun? (a) destructively (b) destroy (c) destructive (d) destruction
- 5.Which is the formal word for “think about”? (a) purchase (b) reside (c) conclude (d) consider
- 6.Which is the everyday (informal) word for “descend”? (a) help (b) need (c) go down (d) buy
- 7.Which is the formal word for “friend”? (a) residence (b) error (c) companion (d) occupation
- 8.One word for: a sound loud enough to be heard (a) visible (b) audible (c) edible (d) fragile
- 9.One word for: the life story of a person written by someone else (a) geography (b) atlas (c) autobiography (d) biography
- 10.Fill the gap: a ___ of students (a) swarm (b) class (c) herd (d) fleet
- 11.Complete the idiom: Our plan failed, so we were back to square ___. (a) zero (b) two (c) one (d) ten
- 12.Which word means “one who paints”? (a) paints (b) painted (c) painting (d) painter
- 13.Which word is spelt wrongly? (a) separate (b) foreign (c) intterupt (d) embarrass
- 14.Fill the gap with the right small word: Our car broke ___ on the highway. (a) after (b) up (c) off (d) down
- 15.Pick the right word: A ___ is the smallest unit of life. (a) cell (b) sell
- 16.Choose the right form: You must ___ which book to read first. (a) decision (b) decide (c) decisive (d) decisively
- 17.Which word means “without power”? (a) powered (b) powerless (c) powering (d) powerful
- 18.Fill the gap: A clutch is a group of ___. (a) ships (b) cows (c) lions (d) eggs
- 19.Which suffix means “full of”? (a) -ful (b) -er (c) -less (d) -ly
- 20.Which word is the opposite of “full”? (a) dry (b) empty (c) fast (d) tall
- 21.Which word is a noun? (a) succeed (b) success (c) successfully (d) successful
- 22.Add the suffix: lucky + ly = ? (a) luckilly (b) lukily (c) luckyly (d) luckily
- 23.Fill the gap with the right small word: Never give ___; keep trying! (a) after (b) up (c) across (d) off
- 24.Choose the right form: Painting helps children become more ___. (a) creatively (b) creative (c) create (d) creation
- 25.Fill in the opposite: My glass was full; now it is ___. (a) tall (b) empty (c) loud (d) hot
- 26.Which word is the antonym (opposite) of “innocent”? (a) modern (b) brave (c) early (d) guilty
- 27.Fill the gap: The young one of a donkey is a ___. (a) chick (b) foal (c) kitten (d) cub
- 28.Which pair of words are synonyms? (a) open – shut (b) gift – river (c) up – down (d) gift – present
- 29.Which word is the antonym (opposite) of “cowardly”? (a) tiny (b) rude (c) brave (d) lazy
- 30.Add the suffix: dark + ness = ? (a) darkeness (b) darckness (c) darknes (d) darkness
- 31.Pick the right word: The cut on my knee will ___ in a few days. (a) heel (b) heal
- 32.Fill in the opposite: An elephant is big, but an ant is ___. (a) small (b) wet (c) loud (d) tall
- 33.Which word is the opposite of “push”? (a) eat (b) sleep (c) pull (d) sing
- 34.Fill the gap: A pack is a group of ___. (a) wolves (b) ships (c) lions (d) grapes
- 35.What does the phrasal verb “get up” mean? (a) go to sleep (b) sit down (c) rise from bed (d) lie down
- 36.Which word is the opposite of “slow”? (a) fast (b) cold (c) empty (d) wet
- 37.Pick the right word: Big ships sail on the ___. (a) see (b) sea
- 38.Which word is a verb? (a) dangerously (b) danger (c) dangerous (d) endanger
- 39.Fill the gap with the right small word: Please turn ___ the volume; the baby is sleeping. (a) after (b) across (c) down (d) up
- 40.Fill the gap: A caterpillar is the young one of a ___. (a) cow (b) hen (c) frog (d) butterfly
Answer key
- a dearly loved person
- hospital
- ship
- destruction
- consider
- go down
- companion
- audible
- biography
- class
- one
- painter
- intterupt
- down
- cell
- decide
- powerless
- eggs
- -ful
- empty
- success
- luckily
- up
- creative
- empty
- guilty
- foal
- gift – present
- brave
- darkness
- heal
- small
- pull
- wolves
- rise from bed
- fast
- sea
- endanger
- down
- butterfly
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