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.Complete the idiom: After the long day, Dad decided to hit the ___. (a) wall (b) ball (c) sack (d) bag
- 2.What does the idiom “once in a blue moon” mean? (a) at midnight (b) very quickly (c) every night (d) very rarely
- 3.Complete the analogy: Butter is to milk as paper is to ___. (a) iron (b) glass (c) plastic (d) wood
- 4.Which spelling is correct? (a) beleive (b) belive (c) believe (d) beleeve
- 5.Which word means “the state of being dark”? (a) darker (b) darkness (c) darken (d) darkly
- 6.Which word means “spell wrongly”? (a) unspell (b) misspell (c) prespell (d) respell
- 7.Which word is a noun? (a) inventive (b) inventively (c) invention (d) invent
- 8.Fill in the opposite: Grandpa is old, but the baby is ___. (a) young (b) loud (c) tall (d) dry
- 9.Which prefix means “again”? (a) mis- (b) un- (c) pre- (d) re-
- 10.Which is the everyday (informal) word for “approximately”? (a) lucky (b) often (c) about (d) enough
- 11.Pick the right word: ___ maths, Riya also loves art. (a) Besides (b) Beside
- 12.Which word means “without a home”? (a) homework (b) homeless (c) homely (d) homeward
- 13.One word for: an animal that eats only plants (a) omnivore (b) herbivore (c) carnivore (d) insectivore
- 14.Fill the gap: a ___ of zebras (a) fleet (b) swarm (c) herd (d) bunch
- 15.What does “unusual” mean? (a) usual wrongly (b) usual before (c) not usual (d) usual again
- 16.Pick the right word: This spoon is made of ___. (a) steel (b) steal
- 17.Pick the right word: I ___ two idlis for breakfast. (a) eight (b) ate
- 18.Add the suffix: heavy + ly = ? (a) heavilly (b) heavly (c) heavily (d) heavyly
- 19.Add the suffix: tidy + ness = ? (a) tidyness (b) tidiness (c) tidness (d) tidines
- 20.Which word is the opposite of “happy”? (a) big (b) early (c) dry (d) sad
- 21.Which is the formal word for “live”? (a) require (b) purchase (c) assist (d) reside
- 22.Choose the right form: Use your ___ to write a story about a flying elephant. (a) imaginatively (b) imaginative (c) imagination (d) imagine
- 23.Arjun gave a candid answer and told us exactly what he thought. “Candid” means ___. (a) secret (b) honest and open (c) false (d) sleepy
- 24.Which word means the same as “gift”? (a) river (b) present (c) shout (d) smile
- 25.Add the suffix: shop + er = ? (a) shopor (b) shoper (c) shopper (d) shoppar
- 26.Be cautious while crossing the busy road. “Cautious” means ___. (a) careless (b) noisy (c) careful (d) fast
- 27.Pick the right word: Stop when the traffic light is ___. (a) read (b) red
- 28.Which word is the antonym (opposite) of “generous”? (a) early (b) polite (c) selfish (d) brave
- 29.What does the phrasal verb “calm down” mean? (a) become quiet and relaxed (b) fall down (c) go downstairs (d) get angry
- 30.Which is the formal word for “friend”? (a) occupation (b) companion (c) error (d) residence
- 31.Which word means “view before”? (a) misview (b) preview (c) disview (d) unview
- 32.The soldiers were valiant and fought bravely to protect the village. “Valiant” means ___. (a) hungry (b) tired (c) cowardly (d) brave
- 33.Which word is the opposite of “boy”? (a) river (b) girl (c) cloud (d) tree
- 34.Fill the gap: The young one of a cow is a ___. (a) kitten (b) calf (c) chick (d) cub
- 35.Which spelling is correct? (a) guarante (b) guarentee (c) garantee (d) guarantee
- 36.Pick the right word: Riya joined a computer ___. (a) coarse (b) course
- 37.What does the idiom “on cloud nine” mean? (a) very happy (b) in the rain (c) on a plane (d) very sleepy
- 38.Which word means “build again”? (a) disbuild (b) rebuild (c) unbuild (d) misbuild
- 39.Which word is an adverb? (a) danger (b) endanger (c) dangerously (d) dangerous
- 40.Which word means the same as “little”? (a) kind (b) loud (c) small (d) big
Answer key
- sack
- very rarely
- wood
- believe
- darkness
- misspell
- invention
- young
- re-
- about
- Besides
- homeless
- herbivore
- herd
- not usual
- steel
- ate
- heavily
- tidiness
- sad
- reside
- imagination
- honest and open
- present
- shopper
- careful
- red
- selfish
- become quiet and relaxed
- companion
- preview
- brave
- girl
- calf
- guarantee
- course
- very happy
- rebuild
- dangerously
- small
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