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.Which is the formal word for “kids”? (a) colleagues (b) adults (c) children (d) citizens
- 2.Which word means the same as “clever”? (a) tired (b) lazy (c) smart (d) rude
- 3.Which word means “in a slow way”? (a) slower (b) slowest (c) slowness (d) slowly
- 4.What is the feminine of “lion”? (a) tigress (b) lioness (c) queen (d) mare
- 5.Pick the right word: The sand on this beach is ___ and rough. (a) coarse (b) course
- 6.Fill in the opposite: We push a door to open it and ___ it to close it. (a) sing (b) cut (c) pull (d) eat
- 7.Fill the gap: The young one of a goose is a ___. (a) cub (b) calf (c) gosling (d) kid
- 8.Which prefix means “not”? (a) pre- (b) re- (c) un- (d) mis-
- 9.What is the masculine of “ewe”? (a) ram (b) bull (c) horse (d) lion
- 10.Pick the right word: The chief guest was ___ welcomed at the gate. (a) formally (b) formerly
- 11.Which word is the antonym (opposite) of “export”? (a) float (b) accept (c) whisper (d) import
- 12.Which word is the antonym (opposite) of “exclude”? (a) whisper (b) include (c) float (d) accept
- 13.Fill the gap: A cygnet is the young one of a ___. (a) horse (b) cat (c) swan (d) cow
- 14.Which word is spelt wrongly? (a) knowledge (b) charecter (c) parliament (d) address
- 15.Fill the gap with the right small word: Only five students turned ___ for practice. (a) across (b) off (c) up (d) after
- 16.Fill in the opposite: A rabbit is fast, but a tortoise is ___. (a) loud (b) slow (c) big (d) wet
- 17.The empty house looked eerie at night, with creaking doors. “Eerie” means ___. (a) strange and scary (b) bright and cheerful (c) very warm (d) very clean
- 18.Which word is the opposite of “strong”? (a) wet (b) weak (c) early (d) loud
- 19.Which prefix means “wrongly”? (a) re- (b) un- (c) mis- (d) pre-
- 20.Pick the right word: ___ the best singer in our class! (a) Your (b) You're
- 21.Which is the everyday (informal) word for “previously”? (a) before (b) about (c) often (d) enough
- 22.Complete the idiom: The test was hard, but I had to bite the ___ and finish it. (a) apple (b) pencil (c) bullet (d) biscuit
- 23.Which word is an adverb? (a) attract (b) attractively (c) attraction (d) attractive
- 24.What does the idiom “raining cats and dogs” mean? (a) raining very heavily (b) animals are falling (c) pets are fighting (d) a light shower
- 25.Complete the analogy: Finger is to hand as toe is to ___. (a) arm (b) knee (c) nail (d) foot
- 26.What does the idiom “face the music” mean? (a) enjoy a song (b) dance well (c) sing on stage (d) accept the punishment
- 27.Which word means the same as “rush”? (a) sleep (b) wait (c) hurry (d) read
- 28.Pick the right word: The stars shine at ___. (a) night (b) knight
- 29.Pick the right word: Press the ___ to stop the bicycle. (a) break (b) brake
- 30.Fill in the opposite: Grandpa is old, but the baby is ___. (a) tall (b) dry (c) loud (d) young
- 31.Which spelling is correct? (a) character (b) charactor (c) charecter (d) caracter
- 32.What does “rewrite” mean? (a) not write (b) write before (c) write again (d) write wrongly
- 33.Which word means “not tidy”? (a) untidy (b) pretidy (c) retidy (d) distidy
- 34.Pick the right word: Grandma told us a ___ about a clever fox. (a) tale (b) tail
- 35.Complete the analogy: Car is to road as train is to ___. (a) river (b) track (c) sky (d) sea
- 36.One word for: a person who makes furniture from wood (a) tailor (b) plumber (c) carpenter (d) barber
- 37.The milk had a peculiar smell, so Mum threw it away. “Peculiar” means ___. (a) fresh (b) sweet (c) pleasant (d) strange
- 38.Pick the right word: Big ships sail on the ___. (a) see (b) sea
- 39.Which pair of words are synonyms? (a) rich – wealthy (b) hard – soft (c) rich – poor (d) light – dark
- 40.Which word means “full of help”? (a) helpfully (b) helper (c) helpful (d) helpless
Answer key
- children
- smart
- slowly
- lioness
- coarse
- pull
- gosling
- un-
- ram
- formally
- import
- include
- swan
- charecter
- up
- slow
- strange and scary
- weak
- mis-
- You're
- before
- bullet
- attractively
- raining very heavily
- foot
- accept the punishment
- hurry
- night
- brake
- young
- character
- write again
- untidy
- tale
- track
- carpenter
- strange
- sea
- rich – wealthy
- helpful
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