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Basic English Words For All
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Subjects
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english
,
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. Knowledge or skill you get from doing something
fiction
king
experience
ball
2. A large and important town
guide book
cousin
city
camping
3. The game when 2 teams move across the ice and try to hit a puck into a net
season
ice hockey
nationality
strict
4. A strong hard cap to protect your head
overrated
helmet
worker
backpack
5. You use it for a thing when you don't mention which thing
something
hotel
golf
bag
6. A building where you pay to watch a movie
upstairs
cinema
a quarter past eight
quiet
7. Tools / stuff you need to do an activity
fiction
football match
equipment
silk
8. Someone who makes things in a factory
twelve o'clock
childminder
can
factory worker
9. Dressed in nice - fashionable clothes; slightly formal
cinema
desperate
smart
sightseeing
10. Meal you eat in the middle of the day
nasty
Formula 1
big toe
lunch
11. The art and practice of designing buildings
jeans
wind
architecture
waiter
12. Area next to the sea
hotel
beach
actress
budgie
13. Someone who studies or works in biology
biologist
creepy
football
fantastic
14. Not thin
third
city
fat
sister
15. Anybody - any person no matter who
degree
anyone
fashionable
let's...
16. A place where you can buy and eat meals
restaurant
sport
life
funny
17. From Wales
fiction
dairy products
horse riding
Welsh
18. Moving across the ice wearing special boots with metal bars under them
ice skating
tomorrow
reading
defeat
19. From Britain
well
tennis
British
suggestion
20. Something you enjoy doing or studying
dislike
cloud
interest
Uruguayan
21. A story or film about life in the future - often about travel in space and life on another planet
science fiction
denim
India
file
22. Making musical sounds with your voice
office
brochure
sailing
singing
23. Attractive and interesting in an exciting and unusual way
glamorous
address
writing
the world
24. Describes water - air -etc. with dirt - bad chemicals -etc in it
polluted
Spain
artist
possible
25. A scientist who has special knowledge and training in physics
physicist
brilliant
feminine
cinema
26. From Turkey
The Renaissance
romance
attack
Turkish
27. A book made of plain paper on which you can write things you don't want to forget
early
shop
notebook
outgoing
28. Willing to do anything to change a bad situation
sex
tuna salad
desperate
map
29. Kind of hat
cafeteria
cap
motor racing
Argentina
30. Letter from your admirers
explore
Uruguay
fanmail
trainers
31. A building where you can see art
museum
surfing
waitress
male
32. A weapon with a long - sharp blade and a handle
sword
friendly
crowded
office
33. A bad activity that is illegal
crime
brochure
fat
jumper
34. From India
Indian
play
petrol station
capital city
35. A large bat with strings in the middle that you use to play tennis or badminton
guide book
racket
nose
India
36. Someone who studies at a college or university
backpack
student
Hungaria
desert
37. Building where you can stay for a short time
hotel
walking
unhealthy
Welsh
38. Country of a Turk
Turkey
microchip
bank
binoculars
39. E.g. to use something which is typical of what you are talking about.
for example
dislike
nowhere
doctor
40. The most important / biggest part of a meal
Ukraine
main course
trainers
school
41. To move to the sounds of music
hit
dance
listen to music
go camping
42. Sport of moving down snowy hills on long thin pieces of wood or plastic under your boots
skiing
live
Japan
hit
43. Strong shoes that cover your whole foot and the lower part of your leg
expensive
walking boots
aunt
windsurfing
44. Travel through the air like a bird or in a plane
education
grandmother
flying
cloudy sky
45. Time of the year when leaves change colour and the weather becomes cooler
nothing
autumn
formal
well
46. To make music by using an instrument
ugly
date of birth
playing music
well
47. Having qualities considered to be typical of men
masculine
dirty
romantic
washing up
48. Not strong
go camping
gardening
weak
friendly
49. Describes something that doesn't cost a lot of money
bottle
Hungaria
cheap
restaurant
50. Child of your uncle or aunt
flying
cousin
car park
ears