Vocabulary Test Online - DIY

Test your vocabulary by dynamic question sheets, including options like spelling words of American middle school and high school, some standardized exams, and word frequency levels.

Want to get a comment or suggestion? Show the result to your teacher, or report it to us by the PL Tutor Page.
Vocabulary Study Online by Level
Vocabulary Study Online By Level (VSOBL) is a fast, reliable, and handy tool to prepare English exam vocabulary. It has lots of built-in word lists to load by level.
 Actions
 Test Questions
GRE Vocabulary: Level 2
affliction     Speak
 
(1)
n.  
Select answer:
drama, characterized by exaggerated emotions, stereotypical characters, and interpersonal conflicts
one that refuses to abide or be independent; an unbranded range animal
cause or condition of pain, suffering, or distress
penetration; hole made in the body so that jewelry can be worn through it
review; look back upon; remember
Don't select.
banish     Speak
 
(2)
v.  
Select answer:
drive out; drive away; compel to depart; dispel
refrain from buying or using
move to act; incite; give rise to; assist with a reminder
declare or state with confidence; put oneself forward boldly
close; squeeze or press together; contract
Don't select.
buggy     Speak
 
(3)
n.  
Select answer:
repentance; sorrow; suffering; a means of repairing a sin committed and obtaining pardon for it
small, lightweight carriage; drawn by a single horse
one who sues, petitions, or entreats; petitioner; applicant; a man who is courting a woman
deed; action; act performed for amusement; joke
title or degree of nobility
Don't select.
corroborate     Speak
 
(4)
v.  
Select answer:
throw out forcibly and abundantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; eject in a jet; utter magniloquently
acquit; free from blame; discharge from duty
keep under control; hold back; place limits on
be slow in leaving; continue or persist; stay
establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; support with evidence
Don't select.
dribble     Speak
 
(5)
v.  
Select answer:
dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards
drive out; drive away; compel to depart; dispel
hesitate as if in fear or doubt; shy away or be overcome with fright or astonishment
fall in drops or small drops, or a quick succession of drops
keep under control; hold back; place limits on
Don't select.
executioner     Speak
 
(6)
n.  
Select answer:
wedding ceremony; social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed
scarf or band worn about the waist, over the shoulder; belt
special honor or respect shown or expressed publicly; tribute
one who executes, especially one who puts a condemned person to death; an executor
depiction or interpretation, as in painting or music; translation; version
Don't select.
figment     Speak
 
(7)
n.  
Select answer:
assembly of persons wearing masks and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions
something invented, made up; imaginary thing
thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes
dome-shaped Inuit shelter, constructed of blocks cut from snow
a place that is regarded as the center of an activity or interest; goal to which adherents of religious faith
Don't select.
frisk     Speak
 
(8)
v.  
Select answer:
weigh; weigh in mind; view with deliberation; examine carefully; consider attentively
move about briskly and playfully; search a person for something concealed, by hands quickly over clothes
force or drive back; disgust; offer resistance to; fight against
act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only; imitate
stuff oneself; overeat; make a pig of oneself
Don't select.
helm     Speak
 
(9)
n.  
Select answer:
book in which a summary of accounts is laid up or preserved; a book of record in business transactions
achievement; accomplishment; an act that shows skill, strength, or bravery
fixed and unvarying representation; conventional and oversimplified conception
the steering gear of a ship, especially a tiller or a wheel; position of leadership or control; director
continuous, unwavering course; exact meaning or actual wording of a document
Don't select.
indisposed     Speak
 
(10)
a. or ad.  
Select answer:
adhesive; sticking together; capable of thinking and expressing yourself in a clear and consistent manner
fearful; frightful; extremely bad
averse; disinclined; unwilling to do a task
adjoining; neighboring; close to; lying near
ill-humored; sullen; depressingly dark; gloomy; persistent
Don't select.
judicial     Speak
 
(11)
a. or ad.  
Select answer:
queer; amusingly odd; comical
fearful; frightful; extremely bad
lazy; with little movement; very slow
of or relating to a monarch; royal; magnificent; splendid
pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or a judge; sanctioned or ordered by a court
Don't select.
meek     Speak
 
(12)
a. or ad.  
Select answer:
possessed at birth; inborn
quiet and obedient; showing patience and humility
not subject to duty or obligation; not subject to taxation
arousing fear; threatening; difficult to undertake or defeat
difficult; stressful; narrow; not broad; tight; close; closely fitting
Don't select.
ominous     Speak
 
(13)
a. or ad.  
Select answer:
firmly established by nature or habit
threatening; foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
exceeding what is necessary or natural; repetitious; excessively wordy
expressing, or consisting of, the number two; belonging to two
uncertain; risky; dangerously lacking in security or stability
Don't select.
ply     Speak
 
(14)
v.  
Select answer:
spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle; ride ostentatiously; walk or strut about in a pompous, showy manner
hang loosely, or with a swinging or jerking motion; swing, as something suspended loosely
scrub; clean, polish, or wash by scrubbing vigorously; wear away; search through or over thoroughly
bend; lay on closely, or in folds; work upon steadily, or with repeated acts; press upon
clean, deepen, or widen with scooping or suction devices, especially in harbor, waterway, and underwater mining
Don't select.
presto     Speak
 
(15)
a. or ad.  
Select answer:
easily irritated or annoyed; unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered
belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly; concerned with commonplaces; ordinary
being or happening first in a sequence of time; original; primary; fundamental
later in time; later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; located behind
quickly; immediately; in haste; suddenly
Don't select.
remiss     Speak
 
(16)
a. or ad.  
Select answer:
powerful; having the power to influence or convince; having great control or authority
sleeping; not active but capable of becoming active
sullen look; a frown; quality or state of being moody, melancholy, and gloomy
negligent; careless in performing duty or business
sheer, light, delicate, or tenuous
Don't select.
sledgehammer     Speak
 
(17)
n.  
Select answer:
long heavy hammer, often wielded with both hands, used for driving wedges and posts and other heavy work
bill; commercial document issued by a seller to the buyer indicating the products, quantities, and prices
deciduous tree, native to Asia and northern Africa and having simple leaves, pink flowers, and leathery fruits
act of wrecking, or state of being wrecked; the debris of something wrecked
achievement; accomplishment; an act that shows skill, strength, or bravery
Don't select.
sparkle     Speak
 
(18)
v.  
Select answer:
move one way and the other with quick turns; shake to and fro; move in vibrating; cause to vibrate
prevent; turn or cause to turn off or away
erase; strike out; remove or make invisible
testify; authenticate, affirm to be true
be brilliant in performance; give off or reflect flashes of light; glitter
Don't select.
taunt     Speak
 
(19)
v.  
Select answer:
reproach in a mocking, insulting, or contemptuous manner; make fun of, often in an aggressive manner
provide physical relief, as from pain; make easier; remove in part
call upon; ask for; request earnestly
stimulate; impel; provide with an incentive; move to action
explode or cause to explode; explode with great suddenness and with a loud noise
Don't select.
trifle     Speak
 
(20)
n.  
Select answer:
book in which a summary of accounts is laid up or preserved; a book of record in business transactions
a thing of very little value or importance
intense adverse criticism; artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes; public-relations spokesperson
act of exorcising; driving out of evil spirits from persons or places by conjuration
the organ of the neck of mammals involved in breath control, protection of the trachea, and sound production
Don't select.