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Basic English Words For All
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Subjects
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english
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vocabulary
,
literacy
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Jumping into the water with arms and head first
novel
Poland
diving
unkind
2. The most important town in a country
badly
motor racing
everywhere
capital city
3. Popular in a particular time
hotel
anywhere
serious
fashionable
4. Most important city in the country
Turkey
armour
author
capital
5. A place with many houses - streets and shops - etc.
megastar
supermarket
anything
town
6. Things you do well - because you have learned and practised it
skills
table tennis
disco
hero
7. Relating to Denmark
Spain
autumn
desperate
Danish
8. Sitting or lying in the sun especially in order to become brown
sunbathing
car park
play golf
everywhere
9. Activity of putting up a tent and living in it on holiday
Japan
go camping
capital
glamorous
10. One of the pieces of flesh in your body that makes part of your body move (spier)
muscle
rubber
throw
square
11. Describes something or someone making a lot of loud unpleasant sound
heavy
Malian
hotel
noisy
12. Not bend or curved
invent
spider
straight
diving
13. Country of a Peruvian
something
Peru
thriller
Ukraine
14. Opposite of never
chess
always
theatre
easy
15. Extremely bad or unpleasant; often in a way that causes harm or damage
bag
Danish
sailing
terrible
16. A book that tells what has happened in someone's life - written by someone else
backpacking
always
Uruguayan
biography
17. Opposite of late
zero
microchip
final
early
18. The father of someone's mother or father
grandfather
snorkel
British
nurse
19. The sport of moving on water using a board with a sail
windsurfing
experience
observe
nylon
20. A military ship that can stay under water
ice hockey
husband
submarine
terrorist
21. Book of practical information about a place
guide book
fishing rod
weak
language
22. 8.45 h.
a quarter to nine
library
disco
cafe
23. Country of an Irishman
Ireland
tall
cool
biologist
24. All the people
everyone
countryside
impossible
temperature
25. Extremely good - UNBELIEVABLE
bored
hate
incredible
Australia
26. (sweet) food at the end of the meal
zero
dessert
noisy
a quarter to nine
27. Describes something or someone that makes you laugh
boots
boring
talented
funny
28. A shop where you can buy all kinds of things for your animals at home
pet shop
director
volleyball
submarine
29. In or from the east of a country or area
eastern
fiction
file
motor racing
30. From Japan
Japanese
funny
writing
swimming pool
31. To make music by using an instrument
Uruguayan
nasty
notebook
playing music
32. A place where you go to dance
wizard
grandmother
disco
plump
33. A set of rooms on one floor.Another word for it: apartment
uninteresting
champion
flat
waitress
34. Describes something that doesn't cost a lot of money
excellent
railway station
cheap
nurse
35. Country of a Brazilian
happy
cook
disco
Brazil
36. Kind of hat
cap
everything
leather.
butcher
37. A story performed by actors
defeat
play
horror story
shopping
38. A long thin piece of plastic or wood that you use for measuring things or drawing straight lines
church
ruler
spaghetti bolognaise
bored
39. Science of numbers and shapes
chess
mathemathics
active
wide
40. Someone trained to treat people who are ill.
cricket
doctor
Argentina
exhibition
41. Someone you know and enjoy being with
everywhere
friend
sad
home
42. Activity of cleaning plates -cups knives -etc.
feminine
washing up
sad
fat
43. Country of an Australian
footballer
collect
unknown
Australia
44. Room for washing yourself
pub
bathroom
second
acting
45. The main meal of the day
education
dinner
Irish
observation
46. Describes someone who can make and repair things
British
fibre
practical
without
47. Stories and books about imagined characters and events
overrated
fiction
painting
water skiing
48. The nations of the European continent collectively
Europe
final
happy
Peruvian
49. Soft white pieces of frozen water
snow
shoes
nasty
bad
50. Country of the British
Britain
king
anything
I don't mind