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Academic vocabulary

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

I left Brenda hungrily buttering a roll, found a public telephone in the lobby, dialled the collect call, heard the busy signal.

a)

reverse charge

b)

wallet

2.
What word names the machine that turns the writing on plastic disks into music you can hear?
a)
autograph
b)
homograph
c)
phonograph
d)
seismograph
3.

Pedestrians should look both ways before crossing the street to avoid getting hit by vehicles.


What does the word pedestrians mean in this sentence?

a)

people who walk

b)

people who eat food

c)

people who paint

d)

people who trade clothes

4.

(n) - an interview for a particular role or job as a singer, actor, dancer, or musician, consisting of a performance

a)

visionary

b)

auditorium

c)

audition

d)

vista

5.

What is a ___ form of government

a)

repulicain

b)

republician

c)

repubican

d)

republican

6.
- speaking two languages fluently
a)
bilengwal
b)
bilengual
c)
billingual
d)
bilingual
7.

tham gia

(a)  

8.

centimeter

a)

unit of measurement in the metric system; one hundredth of a meter

b)

to measure shapes

c)

heat or hot

9.

Choose the correct spelling

a)

word processing

b)

word-processing

c)

word procesing

d)

word-procesing

10.

What is the part of speech of HYDRODYNAMIC?

a)

Noun

b)

Adjective

c)

Verb

d)

Adverb

11.

Vibrations of the earth causing the ground to shake

a)

Earthquake

b)

Groundshake

c)

Tremble

d)

Landslide

12.

You can include moving pictures in your presentation. These are called __________.

a)

films

b)

movies

c)

animations

13.

~~ ………. is a linguistic level of analysis that comprises the study of graphic aspects of language

a)

Graphology

b)

lexical

c)

grammatical

d)

graphology

e)

Phonological

14.

I will _____ the falling asleep in class, to being up all night.

a)

attribute

b)

call on

c)

take away

15.

A group of lines in a poem that are separated from each other by a space is called a...

a)

stanza

b)

line

c)

poem

d)

refrain

16.
Choose the correct sentence: I’m a sports fanatic!
a)
I am a big fan of sports!
b)
I am a big fan in sports!
c)
I am a big fan to sports!
d)
I am a big fan on sports!
17.

Which vocabulary word is "a tool a scientists would most likely use"?

a)

microscope

b)

gritty

c)

typical

d)

mingle

18.

stand for

a)

represent

b)

submit

c)

inform

d)

omit

19.

The meaning of the word, speedometer, is....

a)

to measure how fast something is traveling

b)

to measure how far something travels

c)

to measure how tall an object is

d)

to measure how far away an object is

20.

I'm interested _______ learning about computers so I can fix mine.

IN

a)

in

b)

of

c)

at

d)

potato