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Basic English Words For All
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Subjects
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english
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vocabulary
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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. Light in colour - synonym: fair
blond
bat
cafe
playing music
2. Something/ someone is popular when it/he is liked by many people
bounce
popular
invent
magazine
3. Activity of cleaning plates -cups knives -etc.
washing up
science fiction
serious
straight
4. Not difficult
tuna salad
easy
bag
walking
5. To produce words on paper - in an email -etc.
tuna salad
world-famous
football
writing
6. Make something move through the air
fishing
throw
kitchen
notebook
7. A very small pieve of silicon containing electronic parts - which is used in computers and other machines
gardening
microchip
submarine
disco
8. Very unpleasant used for a taste - smell - experience - situation or event
library
poem
horrible
runner
9. From Canada
home
surfing
hit
Canadian
10. Not good
ghost
rebel
bad
supermarket
11. A container for liquids
classroom
railway station
politician
bottle
12. Describes someone who can make and repair things
player
through
practical
cheese
13. A person who designs buildings
bone
walking
unhelpful
architect
14. Building where clothes are sold
countryside
restaurant
clothes shop
everyone
15. Someone who wins a war or gets control of a country
anything
boring
a piece of information
conqueror
16. Someone whose job is to design roads - bridges - machines
engineer
cafe
email
with
17. Extremely fashionable
magnificent
brilliant
trendy
cinema
18. A person who plays a role in a film or play
Irish
happy
actor
creepy
19. Large area of land where it is very dry
diving
office
young
desert
20. Extremely good - attractive
file
dishonest
unromantic
fantastic
21. Sport of trying to catch fish
preference
night club
fishing
reading
22. A story about people who are in love
kick
equipment
a piece of information
love story
23. The process of watching something/ someone carefully over a period of time
beach
overrated
skating
observation
24. Holiday activity of living in a tent
camping
spaghetti bolognaise
adventure
uncle
25. Not interesting
beach
neighbour
uninteresting
city
26. Activity of putting up a tent and live in it on holiday
Scotland
camping
honest
bank
27. A story -film -etc. about people in love
number one hit
star
romance
walking
28. To be or go on a holiday in Africa looking at big wild animals
safari
invent
snow
experience
29. Opposite of important
unimportant
straight
discovery
magnificent
30. Not clean
dirty
flat
cloud
guidebook
31. Someone who write a book -article - play -etc.
the world
fascinating
author
crowded
32. A piece of equipment for taking photos or making films
in the evening
sauna
Japan
camera
33. Country of Hungarians
Hungaria
beautiful
Ukraine
windsurfing
34. A thing that you have been successful in.
trousers
achievements
Australian
exhibition
35. A building where you can buy and drink an alchoholic drink
relaxed
pub
sport
easy
36. Opposite of friendly
spectacular
unfriendly
excellent
acting
37. To oppose or fight against someone in authority or against an idea or situation which you don't agree with
table tennis
nose
rebel
disco
38. Produce words on paper - in an email - etc
in the end
dirty
destroy
write
39. A extremely pupular star
glamorous
megastar
The united States
invention
40. Anybody - any person no matter who
ice hockey
invent
wizard
anyone
41. Not old
notebook
fascinating
invent
young
42. Not like something
tomorrow
fishing
dislike
starter
43. Someone's female parent
Europe
noisy
cap
mother
44. A small flat case that people keep money -credit cards and small documents in.
wallet
jacket
campsite
The Netherlands
45. Very unpleasant and making you feel sick; often used for a taste or smell
nylon
doctor
disgusting
tie
46. Of a low temperature
camping
cold
motor racing
terrorist
47. Activity of looking at words in a book -etc
anything
reading
radioactive
cold
48. To move quickly up and down from a surface after hitting it
capital
bad
bounce
French
49. The structure that covers the top of a building
Dutch
badly
jumper
roof
50. Tell someone about your ideas about what they should do - where they should go etc.
suggest
omelette
fibre
hang gliding