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 “under the weather” mean? (a) very happy (b) feeling unwell (c) very busy (d) out in the rain
- 2.What does the idiom “throw in the towel” mean? (a) clean up (b) dry your hands (c) give up (d) win easily
- 3.Pick the right word: A rooster is a ___ bird. (a) male (b) mail
- 4.Which spelling is correct? (a) disapear (b) dissapear (c) disappear (d) dissappear
- 5.Pick the right word: There are seven days in a ___. (a) weak (b) week
- 6.Fill the gap: a ___ of cars (a) flock (b) swarm (c) fleet (d) herd
- 7.Fill the gap: The young one of a cat is a ___. (a) kitten (b) calf (c) cub (d) puppy
- 8.Fill the gap with the right small word: The teacher asked us to sit ___ quietly. (a) after (b) off (c) across (d) down
- 9.Which prefix means “not”? (a) un- (b) mis- (c) pre- (d) re-
- 10.Which word means the same as “shut”? (a) smile (b) choose (c) clean (d) close
- 11.Pick the right word: After the fever, Dev felt ___. (a) week (b) weak
- 12.Pick the right word: The ___ rises in the east. (a) son (b) sun
- 13.Complete the analogy: Tailor is to needle as carpenter is to ___. (a) saw (b) stethoscope (c) brush (d) pen
- 14.Choose the right form: Do not play near the railway track; it is ___. (a) dangerous (b) danger (c) endanger (d) dangerously
- 15.Fill the gap with the right small word: We must cut ___ on sugar to stay healthy. (a) across (b) down (c) up (d) after
- 16.Which spelling is correct? (a) exagerate (b) exaggarate (c) exaggerate (d) exagarate
- 17.Choose the right form: Meera sings ___. (a) beauty (b) beautifully (c) beautiful (d) beautify
- 18.Pick the right word: My ___ friend Meera lives in Pune. (a) deer (b) dear
- 19.Fill the gap: A lamb is the young one of a ___. (a) hen (b) sheep (c) cat (d) dog
- 20.Which word means “place wrongly”? (a) displace (b) misplace (c) unplace (d) preplace
- 21.Which prefix means “not”? (a) mis- (b) dis- (c) pre- (d) re-
- 22.The cake looked tempting, and we could not wait to eat it. “Tempting” means ___. (a) burnt (b) tiny (c) ugly (d) hard to resist
- 23.Pick the right word: Can I ___ your eraser for a minute? (a) lend (b) borrow
- 24.Complete the idiom: Kabir spilled the ___ about the surprise party. (a) tea (b) rice (c) beans (d) milk
- 25.Which word means “not safe”? (a) unsafe (b) dissafe (c) presafe (d) resafe
- 26.Which is the formal word for “give”? (a) enquire (b) reside (c) require (d) provide
- 27.One word for: a place where bees are kept (a) aquarium (b) granary (c) apiary (d) aviary
- 28.Pick the right word: The letter A comes before B; A ___ B in the alphabet. (a) precedes (b) proceeds
- 29.Pick the right word: This is ___ new house. (a) hour (b) our
- 30.Pick the right word: The goats ___ around the hills all day. (a) wander (b) wonder
- 31.Complete the analogy: Doctor is to hospital as teacher is to ___. (a) school (b) court (c) farm (d) shop
- 32.Fill the gap: A team is a group of ___. (a) grapes (b) ships (c) players (d) cows
- 33.After the marathon, the runners were exhausted and lay down on the grass. “Exhausted” means ___. (a) very angry (b) very tired (c) very excited (d) very proud
- 34.Which word is a verb? (a) differently (b) differ (c) different (d) difference
- 35.The empty house looked eerie at night, with creaking doors. “Eerie” means ___. (a) very warm (b) bright and cheerful (c) strange and scary (d) very clean
- 36.Which word means “the state of being lazy”? (a) lazily (b) laziest (c) lazier (d) laziness
- 37.Choose the right form: Please explain it ___; I am only seven! (a) simplicity (b) simple (c) simplify (d) simply
- 38.Fill the gap: a ___ of soldiers (a) bunch (b) swarm (c) army (d) flock
- 39.Choose the right form: Hard work is the key to ___. (a) success (b) successful (c) successfully (d) succeed
- 40.Pick the right word: The ___ rode a horse and carried a sword. (a) knight (b) night
Answer key
- feeling unwell
- give up
- male
- disappear
- week
- fleet
- kitten
- down
- un-
- close
- weak
- sun
- saw
- dangerous
- down
- exaggerate
- beautifully
- dear
- sheep
- misplace
- dis-
- hard to resist
- borrow
- beans
- unsafe
- provide
- apiary
- precedes
- our
- wander
- school
- players
- very tired
- differ
- strange and scary
- laziness
- simply
- army
- success
- knight
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