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Total questions: 50

Worksheet time: 25mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

He gets a lot of ____ from football. (enjoy)

a)

enjoyment

b)

enjoyable

c)

enjoyed

d)

joyful

2.

Money doesn’t always bring ________

a)

happy

b)

unhappy

c)

happiness

d)

happily

3.

My dad gets very ______ when he has to wait ages for the train.

a)

patient

b)

unpatient

c)

impatient

d)

dispatient

4.

I want to be a _________ when I’m older.

a)

scientific

b)

scientist

c)

science

d)

sciencer

5.

She's ____ with fashion. She buys all the fashion magazines.

a)

obsessive

b)

obsessed

c)

obsession

d)

obsessent

6.

The school offers free after-school _____ for its students to participate.

a)

actionable

b)

active

c)

activities

d)

action

7.

Many people often make a ____ between London and New York

a)

comparative

b)

comparing

c)

comparison

d)

compared

8.

Tim-Berners Lee has received many awards as the _____ of the world wide web.

a)

invent

b)

inventor

c)

invention

d)

inventive

9.

The minister wants to _______ the capital.

a)

beauty

b)

beautify

c)

beautifulise

d)

beaute

10.

I am so _________ that we are going to New York tomorrow.

a)

excited

b)

exciting

c)

excite

d)

excitable

11.

Are you _____ in the latest developments in technology?

a)

interested

b)

interesting

c)

interest

12.

This e-mail hasn't go an ______ .

a)

attach

b)

attached

c)

attachment

d)

attaching

13.

Some online games are totally _____ for children. They mustn't play them.

a)

dissuitable

b)

imsuitable

c)

unsuitable

d)

insuitable

14.

______ of speech and belief is extremely important for the health of an individual.

a)

Free

b)

Freely

c)

Freedom

d)

Freeness

15.

My teacher says there has been a big ________ in my English lately.

a)

improve

b)

improvement

c)

improvisation

d)

improving

16.

Why did you do that? I thought you were more _________ than that.

a)

intellect

b)

intelligent

c)

intelligence

d)

intellectual

17.

_____ we'll have enough money saved to get married next year.

a)

Hopely

b)

Hopeful

c)

Hopefully

d)

Hoping

18.

In order for the medicine to work _________ you must take the correct amount.

a)

effecitly

b)

effective

c)

effectively

d)

effectedly

19.

Detroit is renowned for the………….. of cars.

a)

product

b)

production

c)

produce

d)

productive

20.

The weatherman said there is a strong ______ of rain today.

a)

possibility

b)

possible

c)

possibly

d)

impossible

21.

I don't want to be fired . Being _______ is the worst thing that can happen to me now.

a)

inemployed

b)

disemployer

c)

unemployed

d)

misemployed

22.

Children are by nature ______ of danger

a)

misaware

b)

unaware

c)

disaware

d)

inaware

23.

She has always been _____ towards her parents and they don't want her at home anymore.

a)

misrespectful

b)

unrespectful

c)

irrespectful

d)

disrespectful

24.

The electric company admitted their _________ for the blackout.

a)

responsibility

b)

respond

c)

response

d)

responsible

25.

We certainly have some very ______ students in our school.

a)

artist

b)

art

c)

artistic

d)

artistically

26.

The play was written by the English Department, who managed to create an ____ story.

a)

amusing

b)

amused

c)

amusement

d)

amusingly

27.

I had a really stupid ___ with my best friend the other day.

a)

arguably

b)

arguable

c)

argument

d)

argumentative

28.

Unfortunately, we were ____ to agree, so in the end, she left without saying goodbye.

a)

unable

b)

disabled

c)

enabled

d)

inable

29.

My best friend has a great ___

a)

person

b)

personal

c)

personality

d)

personally

30.

I have a good _______ with my mum and I can talk to her about anything.

a)

relationship

b)

relate

c)

related

d)

relative

31.

As I waited for Kelly to arrive at the cinema, I bit my nails ____.

a)

nerve

b)

nervous

c)

nervously

d)

nervousness

32.

Ignore what Sharon says about you. It's just ____

a)

jealous

b)

jealousy

c)

jealously

d)

jealousness

33.

In the past, children were severely punished for _____.

a)

disobediance

b)

disobedience

c)

misobediance

d)

unobedience

34.

The children were playing so .........................and I couldn't think straight.

a)

noisily

b)

noisfully

c)

noisy

d)

noise

35.

Seventy-eight year old Bill Baxter has.................completed his third marathon.

a)

successnessly

b)

success

c)

successful

d)

successfully

36.

The former minister spoke..................about the need for more investment in education.

a)

passionate

b)

passionately

c)

passionably

d)

passion

37.

When I was at school, history lessons were really boring; the teacher was so dull and .................

a)

disenthusiastic

b)

unenthusiastic

c)

misthusiastic

d)

inenthusiastic

38.

I don't know why he got so annoyed; it was a completely ......................comment

a)

inoffensive

b)

unoffensive

c)

disoffensive

d)

misoffensive

39.
I can't ...................... this package.
a)
shipment
b)
ship
c)
shipping
40.
Our warehouse is ........................... in new cranes.
a)
equipped
b)
equip
c)
equipment
41.

Our worker is ........................... We caught him leaving work earlier and earlier while he was still clocked in.

a)

unhonest

b)

dishonest

c)

inhonest

42.

The manager admitted he had _______ massively on expensive furniture that the place didn't really need.

a)

superspent

b)

overspent

c)

upspent

d)

respent

43.

When two of our workers ___________, all the boss had to say was that they'd left to pursue other opportunities.

a)

misappeared

b)

inappeared

c)

disappeared

d)

deappeared

44.

Staff who never get any praise for their achievements may end up ___rating their own abilities.

a)

under-

b)

re-

c)

ultra-

d)

ex-

45.
Of course I can see now that Brian is an asset to our company, and I'm sorry I so badly ___judged him when he started working for us.
a)
ex-
b)
sub-
c)
mis-
d)
co-
46.
What do we call someone who can speak German, French, and Spanish?
a)
bilingual
b)
monolingual
c)
trilingual
d)
trisected
47.

During winter the streets are sometimes ______.

a)

icely

b)

icy

c)

iceable

d)

iceful

48.
After a snowfall the sidewalks are _____.
a)
snowful
b)
snowly
c)
snowy
d)
snowable
49.

My tears are an ... of my grief.

a)

expression

b)

express

c)

expressive

d)

expressively

50.

He suffered the ... of getting the lowest score on the test.

a)

humiliation

b)

humiliate

c)

humiliating

d)

humiliatingly