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Test your vocabulary!

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Fetter

a)

A chain or manacle used to restrain a prisoner, typically placed around the ankles

b)

Honest or lasting support, loyalty

c)

To tell a small lie which does not cause any harm, sometimes in a playful way

d)

A person or thing that is mysterious or difficult to understand.

2.

Fib

a)

Unable to think clearly

b)

A very hard dark wood of a tropical tree, used especially for making furniture

c)

To tell a small lie which does not cause any harm, sometimes in a playful way

d)

A person or thing that is mysterious or difficult to understand.

3.

Barista

a)

A person whose job involves preparing and serving different types of coffee

b)

A regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group

c)

Having a great deal of money; wealthy.

d)

A person whose job involves preparing and serving different types of tea only in Starbucks

4.

Binge-watch

a)

Watch multiple episodes of a television program in rapid succession

b)

A person who guards the building

c)

To joke often with attention of annoying someone

d)

To request or use a power outside yourself to improve a situation

5.

Incarcerate

a)

To keep someone in a closed place and prevent them from leaving it, to put or keep someone in prison

b)

The equivalent of multiple turtles falling at once.

c)

A rapid movement, often like an elephant

d)

Boring, banal

6.

Jocular

a)

Given to jesting, habitually jolly; said or done as a joke

b)

Serious, stern

c)

Where one writes a book

d)

A type of lion

7.

Pecuniary

a)

Money

b)

Donald trump

c)

Children buying toys

d)

Tea

8.

Earthquake

a)

A sudden violent movement of the Earth's surface, sometimes causing great damage.

b)

A pair of tubes with glass at either end that you look through to see things far away

c)

The power from something such as electricity or oil, which can do work, such as providing light and heat

d)

The energy generated by the windmill drives all the drainage pumps

9.

Stereotype

a)

To make judgements that ignore individual differences

b)

To punish by criticising sharply; to berate

c)

To tear or cut roughly

d)

To give generously

10.

Rendition

a)

An interpretation or translation; a performance

b)

The act of giving generously; gifts

c)

Taking in everything available

d)

A regular amount of pay for work done

11.

Ebony

a)

A very hard dark wood of a tropical tree, used especially for making furniture

b)

The belief that it is best to accept things in life and not try to change them

c)

A deadly disease among children

d)

A game which you throw rings over a small posts, often played in ships

12.

Handbill

a)

A small printed advertisement or notice that is given to people by hand

b)

The belief that it is best to accept things in life and not try to change them

c)

To give another person control of something or responsibility

d)

Having only just enough money to live

13.

Biodegradable

a)

Able to decay naturally in a way that is not harmful

b)

A pair of tubes with glass at either end that you look through to see things far away

c)

The life story of a person written by someone else

d)

Having only just enough money to live

14.

Waste

a)

Unwanted matter or material of any type

b)

Describes a type of petrol or other substance that does not contain lead.

c)

To collect and treat rubbish to produce useful materials which can be used again

d)

The energy generated by the windmill drives all the drainage pumps

15.

Desertification

a)

The process by which land changes into desert

b)

The cutting down of trees in a large area; the destruction of forests by people.

c)

Describes an item that is intended to be thrown away after use.

d)

Contains large amounts of harmful chemicals