Vocabulary Test Worksheet
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- 1.Which spelling is correct? (a) ocassion (b) ocasion (c) occasion (d) occassion
- 2.Complete the analogy: Go is to went as eat is to ___. (a) eaten (b) eating (c) eats (d) ate
- 3.What does the idiom “once in a blue moon” mean? (a) every night (b) very quickly (c) at midnight (d) very rarely
- 4.One word for: easily broken (a) edible (b) visible (c) flexible (d) fragile
- 5.Fill the gap: a ___ of soldiers (a) flock (b) army (c) swarm (d) bunch
- 6.What does the phrasal verb “give away” mean? (a) borrow (b) keep (c) give for free (d) sell
- 7.Pick the right word: This diary is ___; please do not read it. (a) personal (b) personnel
- 8.Choose the right form: Plastic waste can ___ sea animals. (a) dangerous (b) dangerously (c) endanger (d) danger
- 9.Fill the gap with the right small word: Find ___ when the train leaves. (a) off (b) on (c) up (d) out
- 10.Which word is an adjective? (a) purity (b) purify (c) pure (d) purely
- 11.What does the phrasal verb “run away” mean? (a) return (b) sleep (c) escape (d) stay
- 12.Complete the analogy: Hen is to chick as frog is to ___. (a) cub (b) tadpole (c) foal (d) kitten
- 13.Which pair of words are synonyms? (a) rich – poor (b) quick – slow (c) wet – dry (d) quick – fast
- 14.Which is the everyday (informal) word for “fortunate”? (a) enough (b) often (c) lucky (d) about
- 15.Which word means the same as “select”? (a) jump (b) choose (c) carry (d) refuse
- 16.Fill in the opposite: Grandpa is old, but the baby is ___. (a) tall (b) dry (c) loud (d) young
- 17.Which prefix means “again”? (a) re- (b) un- (c) mis- (d) pre-
- 18.Complete the analogy: Happy is to sad as rich is to ___. (a) wealthy (b) tall (c) kind (d) poor
- 19.Which word is spelt wrongly? (a) believe (b) gramar (c) argument (d) privilege
- 20.Which word means “behave wrongly”? (a) prebehave (b) misbehave (c) disbehave (d) rebehave
- 21.What does “misplace” mean? (a) not place (b) place before (c) place again (d) place wrongly
- 22.Complete the analogy: Brave is to cowardly as generous is to ___. (a) giving (b) rich (c) kind (d) selfish
- 23.Which suffix means “one who does something”? (a) -er (b) -ness (c) -less (d) -ly
- 24.Which prefix means “not”? (a) un- (b) pre- (c) mis- (d) re-
- 25.Which word means the same as “scared”? (a) rich (b) angry (c) afraid (d) hungry
- 26.What is the masculine of “wife”? (a) nephew (b) son (c) husband (d) uncle
- 27.Which pair of words are synonyms? (a) push – pull (b) buy – sell (c) shout – yell (d) shout – whisper
- 28.Which word means the same as “start”? (a) repair (b) begin (c) laugh (d) stop
- 29.Complete the analogy: Duck is to quack as cow is to ___. (a) hiss (b) roar (c) bark (d) moo
- 30.Which word means “the state of being sick”? (a) sicker (b) sickness (c) sicken (d) sickly
- 31.Which word means “in a kind way”? (a) kindness (b) kinder (c) kindest (d) kindly
- 32.Pick the right word: I will ___ a new pencil from the shop. (a) buy (b) bye (c) by
- 33.Pick the right word: ___ maths, Riya also loves art. (a) Besides (b) Beside
- 34.Fill in the opposite: The sun shines in the day; the moon shines at ___. (a) morning (b) school (c) lunch (d) night
- 35.Which word means the same as “difficult”? (a) hard (b) sweet (c) easy (d) early
- 36.Which word is an adjective? (a) destructive (b) destructively (c) destruction (d) destroy
- 37.Which is the everyday (informal) word for “provide”? (a) live (b) buy (c) give (d) tell
- 38.Which word is the antonym (opposite) of “accept”? (a) whisper (b) arrive (c) borrow (d) refuse
- 39.Fill the gap with the right small word: “UN” stands ___ United Nations. (a) off (b) after (c) for (d) up
- 40.Pick the right word: Vegetarians do not eat ___. (a) meet (b) meat
Answer key
- occasion
- ate
- very rarely
- fragile
- army
- give for free
- personal
- endanger
- out
- pure
- escape
- tadpole
- quick – fast
- lucky
- choose
- young
- re-
- poor
- gramar
- misbehave
- place wrongly
- selfish
- -er
- un-
- afraid
- husband
- shout – yell
- begin
- moo
- sickness
- kindly
- buy
- Besides
- night
- hard
- destructive
- give
- refuse
- for
- meat
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