English vocabulary exercise

This general English exercise tests your English vocabulary skills. Some questions may also pertain to grammar. Answer the following questions.

1. The opposite of ‘vociferous’ is?

a) faint

b) clamor

c) noisy

d) rumpus

2. The word ‘lunar’ is an ……………………….

a) noun

b) adjective

c) adverb

d) preposition

3. If a case is ……………………….., we cannot discuss it publicly.

a) locus standi

b) subjudice

c) intoto

d) notabene

4. A person who hates women can be called a ……………………….

a) misogamist

b) monogamist

c) misanthrope

d) misogynist

5. His speech failed to ……………………. the audience.

a) rouses

b) arise

c) rouse

d) rise

6. The farmer asked his sons to bring a …………………….. of sticks.

a) bundle

b) bunch

c) cluster

d) group

7. He has …………………… a wrong inference.

a) drawn

b) macre

c) derived

d) concluded

8. When they became rich, they began to …………………………….. their cousins.

b) look down after

b) look down upon

c) look upon

d) show off

9. Creative people have their own …………………….. and fancies.

a) preferences

b) follies

c) whims

d) likes

10. This cloth is inferior ……………………… that.

a) than

b) then

c) to

d) too

Answers

1. faint

2. adjective

3. Subjudice

4. misogynist

5. rouse

6. bundle

7. drawn

8. look down upon

9. whims

10. to