Vocabulary and Spelling Success Practice Test

Vocabulary and Spelling Success Practice Test

Questions:

Choose the best word to fill in the blank.

1. When I received my term paper back, my teacher's comments on it were so _____ that I had to ask him to explain each one.
   1. disinterested
   2. copious
   3. audible
   4. illegible
2. The _____ data supports the belief that there has been an increase in population.
   1. nominal
   2. demographic
   3. pragmatic
   4. puerile
3. The veterinarian came out and told the cat's owner that the animal's _____ for recovery is good.
   1. prognosis
   2. etymology
   3. pragmatism
   4. euphemism
4. Because I didn't want anyone else to be able to uncover the meaning of my note, I wrote a _____ message only he could understand.
   1. chronic
   2. agoraphobic
   3. cryptic
   4. incisive
5. Scientists research gene _____ in fruit flies to see how genes change from one generation to the next.
   1. remittance
   2. mutation
   3. mediocre
   4. cliché
6. The hotel tried to _____ their mistake by giving us a suite at a reduced price.
   1. debut
   2. rectify
   3. recapitulate
   4. exempt
7. The theater's acoustics were awful; the actors' voices were barely _____.
   1. equity
   2. audible
   3. bandwidth
   4. abrogate
8. In court, the witness committed _____ when she lied to the judge.
   1. perjury
   2. solace
   3. mimicry
   4. rancor
9. The _____ in her letter was so lovely that I read it over and over.
   1. nepotism
   2. prose
   3. hyperbole
   4. guffaw
10. The one year the company did not break even was just a/an _____.
    1. acme
    2. facetious
    3. syllogism
    4. anomaly

Choose the word that is closest in meaning to the bold word.

11. purge
    1. cite
    2. purify
    3. perspective
    4. decimate
12. parity
    1. equality
    2. mimicry
    3. antipathy
    4. sympathy
13. furtive
    1. open
    2. demote
    3. secret
    4. utopia
14. pathos
    1. loyalty
    2. fidelity
    3. pity
    4. epitome
15. audacious
    1. badinage
    2. guttural
    3. bold
    4. stolid
16. controversy
    1. antecedent
    2. debate
    3. excessive
    4. sympathy
17. staid
    1. pallor
    2. sham
    3. sober
    4. elite
18. addle
    1. stolid
    2. empiric
    3. ruminate
    4. muddle
19. erudite
    1. genteel
    2. scholarly
    3. garrulous
    4. bequest
20. tenet
    1. belief
    2. antecedent
    3. teleology
    4. demote

Choose the word that is most nearly the opposite of the bold word.

21. feisty
    1. staid
    2. relevant
    3. tangential
    4. hot
22. bigotry
    1. prognosis
    2. open-mindedness
    3. badinage
    4. parity
23. agonize
    1. blasé
    2. rectify
    3. enjoy
    4. trivial
24. élan
    1. fidelity
    2. ingenue
    3. error
    4. frumpy
25. bane
    1. solace
    2. crux
    3. pun
    4. downfall
26. banal
    1. puerile
    2. trite
    3. fresh
    4. obtuse
27. addle
    1. expose
    2. confuse
    3. muddle
    4. fluster
28. extricate
    1. remove
    2. entangle
    3. malaise
    4. gauche
29. paradox
    1. contradictory
    2. mysterious
    3. enigma
    4. evidence
30. purloin
    1. larceny
    2. wallow
    3. return
    4. plausible

Choose the word that is spelled correctly.

31.  
    1. percieve
    2. achieve
    3. reciept
    4. hygeine
32.  
    1. knarled
    2. blight
    3. alite
    4. fraut
33.  
    1. indeight
    2. indite
    3. indight
    4. indict
34.  
    1. narrled
    2. gnarled
    3. gnarlled
    4. narled
35.  
    1. curiculums
    2. curriculmns
    3. curriculas
    4. curricula
36. Spike was the most _____ dog you could ever wish for.
    1. peacable
    2. paeceable
    3. paecable
    4. peaceable
37. Spending your summer in Spain will be a great _____ for you to improve your Spanish.
    1. opportunity
    2. opportuneity
    3. oportunity
    4. oportuneity
38. Al and Jane hired attorneys, and together, the _____ added up to over $10,000.
    1. lawyer's bills
    2. lawyers' bills'
    3. lawyers' bills
    4. lawyers bills
39. The county commissioners said _____ going to discuss the taxation issue at the meeting next week.
    1. they're
    2. there
    3. their
    4. thei'r
40. In order for Scott to receive his two master's degrees, he had to write two different _____.
    1. theses
    2. thesis
    3. thesis'
    4. thesis's

Match the word in the first column with the correct definition in the second column.

Answers:

1. d
2. b
3. a
4. c
5. b
6. b
7. b
8. a
9. b
10. d
11. b
12. a
13. c
14. c
15. c
16. b
17. c
18. d
19. b
20. a
21. a
22. b
23. c
24. d
25. a
26. c
27. a
28. b
29. d
30. c
31. b
32. b
33. d
34. b
35. d
36. d
37. a
38. c
39. a
40. a
41. e
42. g
43. j
44. h
45. a
46. d
47. c
48. f
49. i
50. b