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.One word for: not fit to be eaten (a) inedible (b) edible (c) audible (d) visible
- 2.One word for: a person who makes furniture from wood (a) barber (b) carpenter (c) plumber (d) tailor
- 3.What does the idiom “throw in the towel” mean? (a) dry your hands (b) win easily (c) give up (d) clean up
- 4.Which is the formal word for “old”? (a) sufficient (b) fortunate (c) previous (d) elderly
- 5.Which word is the antonym (opposite) of “praise”? (a) float (b) blame (c) arrive (d) borrow
- 6.Fill the gap: a ___ of grapes (a) bunch (b) herd (c) pride (d) swarm
- 7.What does the idiom “face the music” mean? (a) accept the punishment (b) enjoy a song (c) dance well (d) sing on stage
- 8.The pond water was murky, so we could not see the bottom. “Murky” means ___. (a) cloudy and dark (b) clear (c) sweet (d) very cold
- 9.Pick the right word: Big ships sail on the ___. (a) sea (b) see
- 10.Pick the right word: I ate a juicy ___ after lunch. (a) pear (b) pair
- 11.What does “preview” mean? (a) view before (b) view wrongly (c) view again (d) not view
- 12.Which word means “heat before”? (a) misheat (b) preheat (c) reheat (d) disheat
- 13.One word for: the life story of a person written by someone else (a) biography (b) autobiography (c) geography (d) atlas
- 14.Which word means “not obey”? (a) misobey (b) preobey (c) disobey (d) unobey
- 15.Pick the right word: The tortoise and the ___ had a race. (a) hair (b) hare
- 16.Which word means “one who dances”? (a) dancing (b) dances (c) dancer (d) danced
- 17.Complete the idiom: Riya visits the zoo once in a blue ___. (a) sky (b) sun (c) sea (d) moon
- 18.Which is the everyday (informal) word for “attempt”? (a) tell (b) buy (c) live (d) try
- 19.Fill the gap: A duckling is the young one of a ___. (a) duck (b) cat (c) goat (d) cow
- 20.Fill in the opposite: An elephant is big, but an ant is ___. (a) loud (b) wet (c) tall (d) small
- 21.Complete the idiom: Ananya was all ___ when Grandpa told the story. (a) eyes (b) ears (c) feet (d) hands
- 22.Which word is the opposite of “big”? (a) small (b) happy (c) wet (d) fast
- 23.Pick the right word: Can I ___ your eraser for a minute? (a) borrow (b) lend
- 24.Which prefix means “again”? (a) pre- (b) re- (c) un- (d) mis-
- 25.Pick the right word: Nice to ___ you! (a) meat (b) meet
- 26.Which word is spelt wrongly? (a) privilege (b) necessary (c) vegitable (d) receive
- 27.Complete the analogy: Light is to dark as noise is to ___. (a) sound (b) song (c) silence (d) music
- 28.Fill the gap: The young one of a horse is a ___. (a) kitten (b) cub (c) lamb (d) foal
- 29.Which word means “judge before”? (a) prejudge (b) rejudge (c) unjudge (d) disjudge
- 30.Choose the right form: The telephone was a great ___. (a) invent (b) invention (c) inventive (d) inventively
- 31.Riya was elated when she topped the class; she danced all the way home. “Elated” means ___. (a) very hungry (b) very happy (c) very angry (d) very tired
- 32.The children were rowdy on the bus, shouting and jumping on the seats. “Rowdy” means ___. (a) sleepy (b) noisy and rough (c) sad (d) quiet and polite
- 33.Fill the gap with the right small word: Our car broke ___ on the highway. (a) down (b) off (c) after (d) up
- 34.Pick the right word: I ___ what is inside the box. (a) wonder (b) wander
- 35.Which word is the antonym (opposite) of “victory”? (a) question (b) journey (c) answer (d) defeat
- 36.Which is the formal word for “so”? (a) approximately (b) previously (c) frequently (d) therefore
- 37.Pick the right word: I bought pens and paper at the ___ shop. (a) stationery (b) stationary
- 38.One word for: a person who does not eat meat (a) omnivore (b) carnivore (c) vegetarian (d) pedestrian
- 39.Complete the analogy: Week is to day as year is to ___. (a) era (b) decade (c) month (d) century
- 40.Which word means “paint again”? (a) repaint (b) prepaint (c) dispaint (d) unpaint
Answer key
- inedible
- carpenter
- give up
- elderly
- blame
- bunch
- accept the punishment
- cloudy and dark
- sea
- pear
- view before
- preheat
- biography
- disobey
- hare
- dancer
- moon
- try
- duck
- small
- ears
- small
- borrow
- re-
- meet
- vegitable
- silence
- foal
- prejudge
- invention
- very happy
- noisy and rough
- down
- wonder
- defeat
- therefore
- stationery
- vegetarian
- month
- repaint
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