Vocabulary Test Worksheet
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- 1.Which word means the same as “sad”? (a) tall (b) quick (c) unhappy (d) rich
- 2.Which word means “fill again”? (a) refill (b) disfill (c) unfill (d) prefill
- 3.Which is the everyday (informal) word for “ascend”? (a) buy (b) tell (c) live (d) go up
- 4.What does the idiom “cost an arm and a leg” mean? (a) be very expensive (b) be cheap (c) hurt badly (d) need a doctor
- 5.Which is the formal word for “let”? (a) conclude (b) permit (c) reside (d) purchase
- 6.One word for: a doctor who treats sick animals (a) optician (b) veterinarian (c) florist (d) dentist
- 7.One word for: a person who stitches clothes (a) carpenter (b) cobbler (c) tailor (d) barber
- 8.One word for: not fit to be eaten (a) visible (b) audible (c) edible (d) inedible
- 9.Which word is the antonym (opposite) of “arrive”? (a) laugh (b) depart (c) accept (d) borrow
- 10.Complete the analogy: Bird is to nest as bee is to ___. (a) kennel (b) hive (c) stable (d) den
- 11.Which word is the antonym (opposite) of “increase”? (a) shout (b) decrease (c) borrow (d) accept
- 12.Complete the idiom: Aditya felt like a fish out of ___ at the new school. (a) water (b) milk (c) air (d) sand
- 13.What does the phrasal verb “go on” mean? (a) leave (b) sleep (c) continue (d) stop
- 14.Water is scarce in the desert, so people use every drop carefully. “Scarce” means ___. (a) very clean (b) in short supply (c) very cold (d) easy to find
- 15.What does “replay” mean? (a) play wrongly (b) play again (c) play before (d) not play
- 16.What does “unclear” mean? (a) clear again (b) clear wrongly (c) clear before (d) not clear
- 17.Pick the right word: Mumbai was ___ called Bombay. (a) formerly (b) formally
- 18.Pick the right word: Everyone came to the party ___ Rohan. (a) accept (b) except
- 19.The Thar Desert is arid; it hardly ever rains there. “Arid” means ___. (a) very cold (b) very wet (c) very green (d) very dry
- 20.What does “unusual” mean? (a) usual before (b) usual wrongly (c) not usual (d) usual again
- 21.Add the suffix: lazy + ness = ? (a) lazines (b) lazyness (c) lazness (d) laziness
- 22.Pick the right word: Please give me a ___ of cake. (a) piece (b) peace
- 23.One word for: a place where fish are kept (a) stable (b) granary (c) aviary (d) aquarium
- 24.Pick the right word: Take a deep ___ before you dive. (a) breathe (b) breath
- 25.Choose the right form: Wear a helmet for ___ while cycling. (a) protective (b) protection (c) protect (d) protectively
- 26.Fill in the opposite: A rabbit is fast, but a tortoise is ___. (a) slow (b) big (c) wet (d) loud
- 27.Fill the gap with the right small word: We must cut ___ on sugar to stay healthy. (a) up (b) across (c) after (d) down
- 28.Pick the right word: Is this ___ water bottle? (a) you're (b) your
- 29.What does the phrasal verb “give up” mean? (a) keep going (b) give a gift (c) stand up (d) stop trying
- 30.Which is the formal word for “answer”? (a) reside (b) purchase (c) respond (d) require
- 31.The traveller was weary after walking all day in the sun. “Weary” means ___. (a) very rich (b) very happy (c) very tired (d) very angry
- 32.Pick the right word: The tortoise and the ___ had a race. (a) hair (b) hare
- 33.Complete the analogy: Happy is to sad as rich is to ___. (a) tall (b) kind (c) poor (d) wealthy
- 34.One word for: the story of a person’s life written by that person (a) novel (b) biography (c) autobiography (d) atlas
- 35.Which word means the same as “clever”? (a) rude (b) tired (c) smart (d) lazy
- 36.Fill the gap: A bouquet is a bunch of ___. (a) cows (b) wolves (c) ships (d) flowers
- 37.Which word is an adverb? (a) protective (b) protectively (c) protect (d) protection
- 38.Which prefix means “again”? (a) pre- (b) re- (c) mis- (d) un-
- 39.Which word means “in a loud way”? (a) loudness (b) loudly (c) loudest (d) louder
- 40.Which suffix means “the state of being”? (a) -er (b) -ful (c) -ness (d) -ly
Answer key
- unhappy
- refill
- go up
- be very expensive
- permit
- veterinarian
- tailor
- inedible
- depart
- hive
- decrease
- water
- continue
- in short supply
- play again
- not clear
- formerly
- except
- very dry
- not usual
- laziness
- piece
- aquarium
- breath
- protection
- slow
- down
- your
- stop trying
- respond
- very tired
- hare
- poor
- autobiography
- smart
- flowers
- protectively
- re-
- loudly
- -ness
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