Grade 7 Vocabulary Revision for Term 1 Exam

Choose the word that best completes the following sentence.

.......... Native Americans gave the starving immigrants food to eat and clothes to wear during the cold winter.

• Obsessed

• Defiant

• Charitable

• Perplexed

Choose the word that best completes the following sentence.

I would never have won if my friends had not .......... me to keep trying.

• lurched

• encouraged

• evaded

• undermined

Choose the word that best completes the following sentence.

Lightning strikes so quickly that it travels between the sky and the ground in a .......... of a second.

• fraction

• conviction

• supervision

• bond

Choose the best SYNONYM for the underlined word in the following sentence.

He shifted his position a little, in order to reduce the pain in his left leg.

• infleuence

• catapult

• expose

• lessen

Choose the best SYNONYM for the underlined word in the following sentence.

I was puzzled by the math problem my teacher presented to me, and ultimately I needed his help to solve it.

• bewildered

• rebellious

• concerned

• charitable

Choose the best SYNONYM for the underlined word in the following sentence.

The hostages' trouble came to an end when soldiers stormed the building and freed the hostages from the terrorists.

• segment

• ordeal

• belief

• bond

Choose the best ANTONYM for the underlined word in the following sentence.

They were afraid he might act rashly and hurt somebody.

• hastily

• violently

• happily

• carefully

Choose the best ANTONYM for the underlined word in the following sentence.

Doctors refuse to divulge any private information about their patients' health conditions.

• fling

• cover up

• reveal

• shun

Choose the best ANTONYM for the underlined word in the following sentence.

The prisoner was defiant and refused to go back into his cell.

• nervous

• rebellious

• obedient

• overjoyed

Which of these sentences shows the meaning of obsessed?

• Suzy takes a shower once a week.

• My cousin Jack brushes his teeeth eight times a day.

• The workers never clean the school's playground.

• I usually eat three meals a day.