Worksheet: Vocabulary | English Grammar Basic - Class 10 PDF Download

Q1: Fill in the blanks with the right alternative.
(i)
(a) Today the ______ of Shillong is pleasant. (weather/climate)
(b) Both the parties came to an _______ settlement. (amicable/amiable)

(ii)
(a) It is not proper to _____ through an open window. (see/look)
(b) His parents' warnings had no ______ on him. (affect/effect)

(iii) 
(a) The ______ in my shop is not good today. (sell/sale)
(b) He ______ good English. (says/speaks)

(iv) 
(a) He has easy _____ to the ministers. (access/excess)
(b) Hundreds of soldiers were ______ in the battle. (wounded/injured)

(v) 
(a) My warnings had no _____ on the boy. (affect/effect)
(b) He couldn't _____ himself to the new situation. (adopt/adapt)

Q2: Complete the following sentences using an appropriate word or phrase.
(i) Good restaurants serving pure vegetarian food are hard to _______
(a) get through
(b) come by
(c) take in
(d) get in

(ii) Which of the following words is closest in meaning to the word 'mania'?
(a) greatness
(b) madness
(c) stupidity
(d) fame

(iii) Winning the Oscar Award was a _______ in her career.
(a) yardstick
(b) milestone
(c) memorial
(d) sign-post

(iv) To be _______, I don't think you did the right thing.
(a) clever
(b) free
(c) frank
(d) straight

(v) People traveling across deserts may see objects which are not really there. Which of the following terms is used to refer to this phenomenon?
(a) mirage
(b) montage
(c) vintag
(c) melange

Q3: Write the correct word form
(i) Marconi is known for _______ (invent) of radio.
(ii) Ramu is a __________ (knowledge) person.
(iii) Namita is ___________ (know) for dancing.
(iv) Dhanush is ___________ (interest) in music.
(v) Short stories are very __________ (interest) for children to read.

Q4: At eleven he had a horror of death. Within six impressionable years, his parents had died and his grandmother had faded off almost _______, until, for the first time since her marriage, her person held for one day an unquestioned supremacy over her own drawing room.
(a) imperceptibly              
(b) suddenly                  
(c) Tragically                
(d) violently

Q5: Read the following paragraph and fill in the blanks.
At sixteen he had lived almost entirely within himself, a _______ boy, thoroughly un-American, and politely bewildered by his contemporaries. The two preceding years had been spent in Europe with a private tutor, who persuaded him that Harvard was the thing; it would “open doors,” it would be a tremendous tonic, it would give him innumerable self-sacrificing and devoted friends. So he went to Harvard–there was no other logical thing to be done with him.
(a) unfriendly
(b) unimaginative
(c) inarticulate
(d) unpleasant

Q6: Read the following paragraph and fill in the blanks.
“He returned to America in 1912 because of one of his grandfather’s sudden illnesses, and after an excessively tiresome talk with the perpetually _____ old man he decided to put off until his grandfather’s death the idea of living permanently abroad. After a prolonged search, he took an apartment on Fifty-second Street and to all appearances settled down.”
(a) convalescent      
(b) convergant        
(c) talkative          
(d) repulsive

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