TESTSONSTRESS Your free time may be saved if these tests are found useful to your students. Ngô Đình Bảo Thoa Choose the word that has stress pattern different from that of the other words. TEST 1. 1. A. certificate B. manufacture C. entertainment D. obligation 2. A. confident B. calculus C. specific D. precedent 3. A. acrobat B. apprentice C. average D. catalogue 4. A. complicated B. demonstrate C. communism D. convenient 5. A. experience B. festival C. fascinated D. energy 6. A. moreover B. memorial C. Olympic D. orphanage 7. A. javelin B. interesting C. material D. musical 8. A. motorcycle B. furniture C. difficult D. detective 9. A. conference B. Canada C. magnitude D. Argentina 10. A. librarian B. respectable C. Internet D. victorious TEST 2. 1. A. assistant B. decision C. redundant D. management 2. A. essential B. average C. promotion D. deliver 3. A. favourable B. evaluate C. democracy D. relationship 4. A. cafeteria B. laboratory C. university D. explanation 5. A. education B. compulsory C. technology D. intelligent 6. A. arrival B. reception C. prestigious D. literal 7. A. computer B. dependence C. obvious D. horizon 8. A. delicious B. generate C. confidence D. theory 9. A. company B. miracle C. atmosphere D. employment 10 . A. official B. recommend C. informal D. disturbance TEST 3. 1. A. coincide B. currency C. dictionary D. cultural 2. A. committee B. community C. creative D. definite 3. A. invigorate B. telegraph C. terminus D. primitive 4. A. Malaysia B. Myanmar C. Rumania D. Bulgaria 5. A. propaganda B. nationality C. ordinarily D. ingenuity 6. A. Parisian B. average C. generate D. punishment 7. A. instrument B. calendar C. curious D. commercial 8. A. potato B. policeman C. November D. cinema 9. A. occasional B. industrial C. information D. variety 10 A. contaminate B. attractive C. emphatic D. corporate Baûo Thoa 1 . TEST 4. 1. A. civilian B. bacteria C. bookbinder D. assembly 2. A. apartheid B. wonderful C. universe D. principal 3. A. virtually B. tobacco C. statesmanship D. weightlessness 4. A. sincerely B. signature C. synthetic D. productive 5. A. architecture B. alphabetical C. opportunity D. international 6. A. individual B. engineering C. remarkable D. disadvantage 7. A. competition B. absolutely C. mathematic D. advantageous 8. A. patriotic B. racialism C. federation D. Japanese 9. A. associate B. marathon C. clarify D. government 10 . A. colonial B. professor C. inhabitant D. colony TEST 5. 1. A. funeral B. Canadian C. puported C. puported 2. A. supervisor B. investigate C. untreatable C. untreatable 3. A. technological B. personality C. representative C. representative 4. A. caterpillar B. exceeding C. existence C. existence 5. A. picturesque B. revelation C. humanitarian C. humanitarian 6. A. refugee B. impudence C. mountaineer C. mountaineer 7. A. devilish B. implicature C. glorify C. glorify 8. A. abnormality B. photography C. proverbial C. proverbial 9. A. understand B. distinguish C. usherette C. usherette 10 . A. innovative B. automate C. womankind C. womankind TEST 6. 1. A. prescription B. assassinate C. accuracy D. ambiguous 2. A. altitude B. beverage C. anecdote D. cathedral 3. A. December B. amplify C. elephant D. favourite 4. A. frequency B. gratitude C. equator D. habit 5. A. luxury B. cosmetics C. protection D. investment 6. A. economy B. accompany C. presentation D. successfully 7. A. romantic B. popular C. financial D. reduction 8. A. intimacy B. component C. customer D. prospect 9. A. accurate B. exercise C. computer D. delicate 10 . A. preservation B. perversity C. magnificent D. potentially Baûo Thoa 2 TEST 7. 1. A. vanilla B. graffiti C. indifferently D. ambiguous 2. A. satisfactory B. assassin C. centenary D. cathedral 3. A. interior B. shorthand C. delightful D. favourite 4. A. ecology B. outwit C. automatic D. habit 5. A. commando B. exceptional C. remove D. investment 6. A. excellent B. derelict C. discard D. successfully 7. A. tragedy B. parallel C. yesterday D. reduction 8. A. infer B. mountain C. eternal D. prospect 9. A. appetite B. opponent C. congregate D. delicate 10 . A. amazing B. shampoo C. accustom D. potentially TEST 8. 1. A. insist B. require C. assist D. glacier 2. A. apparent B. attendance C. ancestry D. alternative 3. A. abnormality B. continental C. mechanical D. occupation 4. A. costume B. besides C. complain D. around 5. A. outnumber B. organic C. singular D. Nigeria 6. A. perversity B. miraculous C. uncertainty D. miscellaneous 7. A. metropolis B. preliminary C. invaluable D. analyst 8. A. politics B. political C. mudslide D. television 9. A. tobacco B. tomorrow C. sulphuric D. certainty 10 . A. divine B. signature C. scholarship D. orator TEST 9. 1. A. cashier B. wealthy C. workshop D. turkey 2. A. sanitary B. salesmanship C. immense D. oxygen 3. A. botanist B. subsidiary C. authorship D. applicant 4. A. mechanized B. trapeze C. official D. subscription 5. A. across B. airmail C. giraffe D. banana 6. A. accept B. attractive C. almost D. because 7. A. crocodile B. anywhere C. cigarette D. comedy 8. A. activity B. envelope C. massacre D. hospital 9. A. photograph B. severance C. pantomime D. historian 10 . A. appointment B. bedtime C. borrow D. image Baûo Thoa 3 TEST 10. 1. A. material B. ornament C. remember D. together 2. A. stomachache B. stationer C. typewriter D. adoration 3. A. classmate B. cartoon C. disp D. canteen 4. A. Christmas B. depend C. electric D. emotion 5. A. etiquette B. earache C. empty D. deceased 6. A. forget B. fountain C. enormous D. headmaster 7. A. homesick B. highland C. sunbathe D. suggest 8. A. umbrella B. medicine C. mistletoe D. magazine 9. A. orchard B. peanut C. shadowy D. September 10 . A. sunburn B. engine C. eternal D. pianist TEST 11. 1. A. contemptuous B. thermometer C. available D. comfortable 2. A. curricular B. xenophobia C. historical D. grammatical 3. A. grammarian B. parameter C. personify D. repetitious 4. A. counteraction B. accompany C. statistical D. penultimate 5. A. abacus B. democrat C. paperback D. uranium 6. A. bookshelf B. commerce C. submariner D. arid 7. A. aquatic B. theology C. astound D. arithmetaic 8. A. lieutenant B. chancellor C. psychiatrist D. adversity 9. A. paranormal B. astronomy C. karaoke D. documentary 10 . A. insurgent B. Mongolia C. aquarium D. amnesty TEST 12. 1. A. metabolic B. perform C. administer D. majority 2. A. analytical B. examination C. resurrect D. agricultural 3. A. pharmacology B. biographical C. trigonometry D. enthusiastic 4. A. nonsensical B. opposition C. astonishment D. geometry 5. A. journalese B. preferential C. vegetarian D. penetrative 6. A. condominium B. generational C. sentimental D. parliamentarian 7. A. genetics B. limerick C. generic D. fanatic 8. A. grotesque B. chronology C. anthropoid D. imbroglio 9. A. deodorant B. emergency C. consultancy D. archetypal Baûo Thoa 4 10 . A. receptor B. reshuffle C. replicate D. engagement TEST 13. 1. A. absurdity B. particular C. polyphony D. politician 2. A. emulate B. Pacific C. newspaper D. imitate 3. A. memorable B. medicinal C. parole D. promotional 4. A. genuine B. fortunate C. genocide D. kangaroo 5. A. descendent B. Gregorian C. ornamental D. delivery 6. A. substantial B. stalactite C. alkali D. opportune 7. A. pneumonia B. cosmetics C. protection D. shareholder 8. A. academy B. neurologist C. beneficial D. eradicate 9. A. habitual B. approximate C. accommodate D. aspiration 10 . A. preference B. dramatic C. Arabia D. objective TEST 14. 1. A. architect B. temperament C. salary D. arena 2. A. ceremonial B. engineer C. altitude D. Portuguese 3. A. compulsory B. satellite C. gallery D. indicate 4. A. receive B. abound C. sustain D. foreign 5. A. considerate B. economic C. redundancy D. communicate 6. A. important B. consistent C. impotent D. assemble 7. A. protestant B. cultural C. character D. phenomenon 8. A. evidence B. persuasively C. interval D. custody 9. A. vulnerable B. participate C. intellect D. interviewer 10 . A. corporal B. heritage C. document D. apprehend TEST 15. 1. A. ultraviolet B. competitive C. photosynthesis D. pedophilia 2. A. advocate B. regime C. adverbial D. apostle 3. A. complication B. matrimonial C. contradiction D. academician 4. A. parody B. absent C. lemonade D. quantity 5. A. emperor B. inertia C. custody D. derelict 6. A. compliance B. encounter C. perpendicular D. continual 7. A. insolent B. aroma C. disaster D. adrenalin Baûo Thoa 5 8. A. otherwise B. clarify C. marigold D. injurious 9. A. infamous B. centenary C. calendar D. hyperhole 10 . A. military B. binary C. ecology D. poisonous NO ANSWER KEY IS NEEDED! Baûo Thoa 6 . ultraviolet B. competitive C. photosynthesis D. pedophilia 2. A. advocate B. regime C. adverbial D. apostle 3. A. complication B. matrimonial C. contradiction. productive 5. A. architecture B. alphabetical C. opportunity D. international 6. A. individual B. engineering C. remarkable D. disadvantage 7. A. competition