Vocabulary Test Worksheet
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- 1.Pick the right word: Always ___ the book you took a fact from. (a) sight (b) cite (c) site
- 2.What is the masculine of “actress”? (a) actor (b) hero (c) waiter (d) host
- 3.Which word is a noun? (a) attract (b) attractively (c) attraction (d) attractive
- 4.Complete the idiom: Don’t give up now; don’t throw in the ___! (a) bag (b) ball (c) book (d) towel
- 5.What does “unsafe” mean? (a) safe again (b) not safe (c) safe wrongly (d) safe before
- 6.Pick the right word: The ___ of my shoe is broken. (a) heal (b) heel
- 7.Fill in the opposite: The shop is near, but the school is ___. (a) sad (b) hot (c) far (d) wet
- 8.What does the phrasal verb “get along” mean? (a) fight (b) get lost (c) get angry (d) be friendly
- 9.Which is the everyday (informal) word for “permit”? (a) let (b) live (c) buy (d) tell
- 10.Complete the analogy: Sheep is to flock as cow is to ___. (a) swarm (b) herd (c) pride (d) fleet
- 11.The soldiers were valiant and fought bravely to protect the village. “Valiant” means ___. (a) brave (b) tired (c) cowardly (d) hungry
- 12.Pick the right word: We buy milk and curd from the ___. (a) diary (b) dairy
- 13.Which word is a verb? (a) imaginatively (b) imagine (c) imaginative (d) imagination
- 14.One word for: a place where birds are kept (a) library (b) aquarium (c) kennel (d) aviary
- 15.Fill in the opposite: Come in through the front door and go ___ through the back door. (a) hot (b) out (c) wet (d) tall
- 16.Complete the analogy: Square is to four as triangle is to ___. (a) six (b) four (c) five (d) three
- 17.Pick the right word: The children forgot ___ books at home. (a) there (b) their (c) they're
- 18.Pick the right word: Mum is ___ the old saree blue. (a) dyeing (b) dying
- 19.Which is the everyday (informal) word for “ascend”? (a) live (b) buy (c) go up (d) tell
- 20.Complete the analogy: Glove is to hand as sock is to ___. (a) arm (b) neck (c) head (d) foot
- 21.The sky grew ominous as dark clouds gathered before the storm. “Ominous” means ___. (a) warning of danger (b) very quiet (c) very beautiful (d) bright and clear
- 22.Fill the gap: A swarm is a group of ___. (a) bees (b) ships (c) cows (d) grapes
- 23.One word for: a person who repairs pipes and taps (a) cobbler (b) plumber (c) carpenter (d) tailor
- 24.Pick the right word: Come ___ and sit with me. (a) here (b) hear
- 25.What does the idiom “under the weather” mean? (a) very busy (b) very happy (c) feeling unwell (d) out in the rain
- 26.One word for: a period of a hundred years (a) fortnight (b) century (c) decade (d) millennium
- 27.Which spelling is correct? (a) comittee (b) committe (c) committee (d) commitee
- 28.Which spelling is correct? (a) temprature (b) temperature (c) tempreture (d) temperture
- 29.Which word is a verb? (a) decision (b) decisive (c) decide (d) decisively
- 30.Which is the formal word for “think about”? (a) reside (b) conclude (c) purchase (d) consider
- 31.Which word means “full of help”? (a) helpless (b) helpful (c) helper (d) helpfully
- 32.Pick the right word: A ___ is the smallest unit of life. (a) cell (b) sell
- 33.Which prefix means “wrongly”? (a) pre- (b) mis- (c) re- (d) un-
- 34.Which word means “not loyal”? (a) misloyal (b) reloyal (c) disloyal (d) preloyal
- 35.Pick the right word: The sand on this beach is ___ and rough. (a) coarse (b) course
- 36.Fill the gap with the right small word: It is cold; put ___ your sweater. (a) away (b) on (c) up (d) off
- 37.One word for: a person who eats far too much (a) patriot (b) glutton (c) optimist (d) miser
- 38.Which word means the same as “street”? (a) road (b) roof (c) river (d) garden
- 39.Complete the analogy: Doctor is to hospital as teacher is to ___. (a) court (b) shop (c) farm (d) school
- 40.Which word is the antonym (opposite) of “proud”? (a) early (b) modern (c) humble (d) rich
Answer key
- cite
- actor
- attraction
- towel
- not safe
- heel
- far
- be friendly
- let
- herd
- brave
- dairy
- imagine
- aviary
- out
- three
- their
- dyeing
- go up
- foot
- warning of danger
- bees
- plumber
- here
- feeling unwell
- century
- committee
- temperature
- decide
- consider
- helpful
- cell
- mis-
- disloyal
- coarse
- on
- glutton
- road
- school
- humble
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