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.What does “rebuild” mean? (a) build wrongly (b) build again (c) build before (d) not build
- 2.Which word means the same as “talk”? (a) sleep (b) speak (c) run (d) hear
- 3.Pick the right word: ___ raining, so take an umbrella. (a) It's (b) Its
- 4.Which is the everyday (informal) word for “enquire”? (a) live (b) buy (c) help (d) ask
- 5.Pick the right word: My ___ is my mother’s sister. (a) ant (b) aunt
- 6.Which prefix means “wrongly”? (a) re- (b) mis- (c) pre- (d) un-
- 7.Which is the everyday (informal) word for “provide”? (a) buy (b) live (c) tell (d) give
- 8.Which word is the antonym (opposite) of “superior”? (a) polite (b) ancient (c) early (d) inferior
- 9.Complete the analogy: Hen is to chick as frog is to ___. (a) foal (b) tadpole (c) kitten (d) cub
- 10.Which spelling is correct? (a) government (b) goverment (c) governmant (d) govenment
- 11.Which word is the opposite of “laugh”? (a) cry (b) eat (c) push (d) run
- 12.Which word is the opposite of “give”? (a) jump (b) cry (c) sing (d) take
- 13.Which word means the same as “finish”? (a) jump (b) start (c) gift (d) end
- 14.What does the idiom “feel blue” mean? (a) feel lucky (b) feel sad (c) feel cold (d) turn blue
- 15.What does the idiom “sit on the fence” mean? (a) rest outside (b) fix a fence (c) fall down (d) not take a side
- 16.Which is the formal word for “talk”? (a) require (b) reside (c) converse (d) purchase
- 17.Which word means “one who plays”? (a) played (b) playful (c) playing (d) player
- 18.Which word means the same as “answer”? (a) travel (b) question (c) reply (d) sleep
- 19.Complete the analogy: Ink is to pen as paint is to ___. (a) book (b) brush (c) plate (d) spoon
- 20.What does “unkind” mean? (a) kind again (b) kind wrongly (c) not kind (d) kind before
- 21.Complete the analogy: Write is to writer as dance is to ___. (a) danced (b) dancing (c) dancer (d) dances
- 22.Which word means the same as “correct”? (a) wrong (b) late (c) right (d) empty
- 23.The cheetah is a ferocious hunter that chases its prey at great speed. “Ferocious” means ___. (a) lazy (b) fierce and wild (c) gentle (d) tiny
- 24.Fill in the opposite: The shop is near, but the school is ___. (a) far (b) hot (c) wet (d) sad
- 25.Fill the gap: a ___ of lions (a) swarm (b) flock (c) bunch (d) pride
- 26.Pick the right word: Take a deep ___ before you dive. (a) breath (b) breathe
- 27.One word for: a person who studies plants (a) astronomer (b) dentist (c) botanist (d) zoologist
- 28.One word for: a book of word meanings in alphabetical order (a) diary (b) novel (c) atlas (d) dictionary
- 29.The chilli was so potent that one bite made my eyes water. “Potent” means ___. (a) very cheap (b) very weak (c) very strong (d) very sweet
- 30.Fill the gap: A flight is a group of ___. (a) lions (b) stairs (c) grapes (d) cows
- 31.Fill the gap: A clutch is a group of ___. (a) ships (b) eggs (c) lions (d) cows
- 32.Which word is an adverb? (a) describe (b) description (c) descriptively (d) descriptive
- 33.Complete the analogy: Cat is to kitten as dog is to ___. (a) puppy (b) calf (c) foal (d) cub
- 34.Fill the gap: A foal is the young one of a ___. (a) horse (b) hen (c) frog (d) cat
- 35.Pick the right word: Camels ___ well to life in the desert. (a) adopt (b) adapt
- 36.Pick the right word: The wind ___ my hat away. (a) blue (b) blew
- 37.One word for: a group of singers (a) fleet (b) crew (c) choir (d) herd
- 38.Add the suffix: play + ful = ? (a) plaiful (b) playfull (c) playfel (d) playful
- 39.What does “replay” mean? (a) play before (b) play again (c) play wrongly (d) not play
- 40.Which spelling is correct? (a) library (b) librery (c) liberary (d) libary
Answer key
- build again
- speak
- It's
- ask
- aunt
- mis-
- give
- inferior
- tadpole
- government
- cry
- take
- end
- feel sad
- not take a side
- converse
- player
- reply
- brush
- not kind
- dancer
- right
- fierce and wild
- far
- pride
- breath
- botanist
- dictionary
- very strong
- stairs
- eggs
- descriptively
- puppy
- horse
- adapt
- blew
- choir
- playful
- play again
- library
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