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vocabulary - list 3

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Doctor Daxtyn hurried over to the hospital, where he found that the patient's condition had deteriorated suddenly. In this sentence, deteriorated means ....

a)

succeeded

b)

became less simple

c)

became worse

d)

became complex

2.

Manchester United supporters decided to organise a boycott of the game in protest against the clubs American owners. The verb 'to boycott' means...

a)

bring about suddenly

b)

to celebrate

c)

to refuse to do business with

d)

to consider carefully

3.

The boys started fighting on the football pitch and the teacher had to immediately __________.

a)

intervene

b)

integrate

c)

infer

d)

obstruct

4.

What does the sun emit?

a)

darkness

b)

the moon

c)

heat

d)

the Earth

5.

All objects have mass; so if an object is moving, then it has ___________

a)

monotony

b)

momentum

c)

melody

d)

mastery

6.

A reluctant reader is someone who

a)

reads ebooks

b)

reads often

c)

reads seldomly

d)

reads by themselves

7.

choose a synonym for bewilder

a)

clarify

b)

nature

c)

confuse

d)

organise

8.

reluctant means

a)

relieved

b)

credible

c)

uneager

d)

substitute

9.

The old dog was weak and .....

a)

feeble

b)

fallible

c)

gullible

d)

robust

10.

feeble means

a)

lacking knowledge

b)

lacking courage

c)

lacking strength

d)

lacking someone

11.

I had a runny nose, a headache and a ________ throat

a)

hoarse

b)

roast

c)

raised

d)

fuzzy

12.
  • "he was ____________ and wouldn't leave me alone"

a)

perspiring

b)

pursuant

c)

persistant

d)

assistant

13.

The judge _________ the criminal to ten years in prison for the offences.

a)

condemned

b)

enticed

c)

inquired

d)

disposed

14.

emit means

a)

to remove

b)

to object

c)

to answer

d)

to expel (as in a gas or smell)

15.

During the war, people had very strict ____________ of food.

a)

shift

b)

rations

c)

reasons

d)

bias

16.

The opposite of scarce is

a)

proud

b)

pleasant

c)

plentiful

d)

rare

17.

The opposite of subsequent is

a)

prior

b)

after

c)

careful

d)

clear

18.

to trudge means

a)

to eat sloppily

b)

to talk quickly

c)

to walk slowly

d)

to write awkwardly

19.

The opposite of deteriorate is ..

a)

to approve

b)

to disprove

c)

to improve

d)

to remove

20.

I had to go to the doctor as I had a ____________ cough

a)

resistant

b)

persistant

c)

bewildered

d)

reluctant