Vocabulary Matching Quiz

Match the word 'prominent' with its meaning:

• Temporary or fleeting

• Unimportant or insignificant

• Easily seen or well-known

• Hidden or obscure

Match the word 'carnivorous' with its meaning:

• Eats rocks

• Eats only sweets

• Eats only vegetables

• Eats meat

Match the word 'embedded' with its meaning:

• To float freely in a liquid

• To fly through the air

• To disappear without a trace

• To fix firmly in a surrounding mass

Match the word 'excavate' with its meaning:

• To cook food

• To build a structure

• To uncover or remove by digging

• To swim in the ocean

Match the word 'prestigious' with its meaning:

• respected and admired as very important or of very high quality

• unimpressive and disliked

• unimportant and low quality

• ordinary and mediocre

Match the word 'remnant' with its meaning:

• A temporary increase in something

• A small remaining quantity of something

• A large amount of something

• A complete absence of something

Match the word 'specimen' with its meaning:

• A type of flower

• A type of weather phenomenon

• Sample or representative of a whole category

• A type of rock

Match the word 'trove' with its meaning:

• A a valuable collection

• D a cave

• C a large mountain

• B a riverside

What is the meaning of the word fossil?

• A a piece of metal

• B the remains or impression of a plant or animal from the past

• C a cave with water running through it

• D part of an old piece of wood