Contents

1. Spellings and Collocations ........................................................................................ 5

2. Synonyms and Antonyms ........................................................................................ 11

3. Nouns and Pronouns............................................................................................... 17

4. Verbs ...................................................................................................................... 27

5. Adjectives and Adverbs ........................................................................................... 34

6. Tenses .................................................................................................................... 42

7. Articles and Prepositions ......................................................................................... 51

8. Conjunctions and Punctuation ................................................................................. 61

9. Contractions and Jumbled Words............................................................................ 69

10. Information Retrieval and Spoken-Written Expressions .......................................... 74

11. Previous Year Paper (2021-22) ............................................................................... 82

12. Previous Year Paper (2022-23) ............................................................................... 87

13. Answer Key ............................................................................................................. 93

 Preface
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The objective of these exams is to build a competitive spirit while evaluating students on conceptual
understanding of the concepts.

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the school studies and prepare the students for various competitive exams including the CREST
Olympiads. This workbook provides a crisp summary of the topics followed by the practice questions.
These questions encourage the students to think analytically, to be creative and to come up with
solutions of their own. There are a couple of previous year papers given at the end of this workbook
for the students to attempt after completing the syllabus. This paper should be attempted in 1 hour to
get an assessment of the student’s preparation for the final exam.

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 Chapter
1 Spellings and Collocations
Spellings
Learning the way words are spelt is quite essential and crucial as far as writing and reading skills are
concerned. There are certain words that have different spelling from the way it is read or pronounced
thus making it different in its structure from reading and writing. Those differences may be due to the
presence of silent letters or repetitive letters or may be due to syllabification. It is important to pay right
attention and focus to learn them correctly.

Can you find the miskate in this?

She sells the C shell on the sea shore
Did you notice that the word mistake has a spelling error in it?

Some of the most commonly misspelt words include:

• Obvious • Captivity • Frantic

• Persuade • Burrow • Generosity
• Disappointed • Carefree • Meadow
• Afford • Century • Peculiar
• Accurate • Competition • Reveal
• Ancestor • Congratulate • Shabby
• Apparent • Contribute • Sturdy
• Appropriate • Demonstrate • Tragic
• Ascend • Descend • Vacant
• Attractive • Disaster • Venture
• Blossom • Extraordinary • Weary

Some important rules to remember to get right spellings:

✓ The letter i mostly comes before the letter e.

Examples: belief, cashier.
However, if there is C before this I/E confusion, then E comes before I.
Examples: receive, ceiling

✓ X is never followed by S, but certain pronunciations have the ’s’ sound.

Examples: excite, excel

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✓ The letter ‘Q’ though ends with a ‘U’ sound takes another U after it.
Examples: quiet, equality

✓ Use of Silent letters (P, W, L, K)

Examples: psalm, write, palm, knight, almond. In these words, the highlighted letters are
silent.

✓ Words that begin with AL don’t take double L’s.

Examples: altogether, always.

✓ Use of homophones:
Examples: paws and pause, know and no

Collocations
Collocations refer to words that are frequently mentioned or paired together. Collocations not just
make the language sound more natural, but also makes language sound more fascinating and
interesting. For instance, collocations like take a bath, take a look, take your time, have rest,
catch fire, etc. are frequent in everyday language. Although there is no specific rule to formulate a
collocation, a reader/learner can have a fair idea of certain commonly accepted or used collocations
by analysing the broad structure of the usage of verbs. For example, the word ‘get’ is often used to
indicate an alteration or change (examples: get started, get a promotion, etc.). The word ‘make’ is
often used where something is likely to be created or has an outcome (examples: make an excuse,
make payment, make trouble, etc.).

Some Popular Collocations:

• Do your best • Take an exam (as a student) • Take a picture

• Take your time • Go crazy • Go bankrupt
• Have a good time • Have a dream • Make sense
• Make a noise • Make a phone call • Catch the flu
• Break a record • Catch fire • Get fired
• Catch you later • Get lost • Save one’s strength
• Come close • Save energy • Come to nothing
• Come to an end • Come to power • Keep the change
• Lose a bet • Keep the peace
• Miss the shot • Miss the opportunity

Make a mess Keep a promise

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Words Related to Different Categories:

Household Things
• Carpet • Cellar • Chimney • Doorknob
• Furniture • Garage • Stairway • Closet
• Den • Couch • Faucet • Attic

Chimney Faucet Carpet

Clothes
• Garment • Cloak • Robe • Apparel
• Embroidery • Costume • Wardrobe • Garb

Embroidery Apparel

Animals
• Mammal • Beast • Omnivore • Wildlife
• Creature • Reptile • Parasite • Species
• Predator • Organism • Biped • Amphibians

Reptile Omnivore

Basic Emotions
• Disgust • Anxiety • Frustration • Passion
• Jealousy • Ecstasy • Curiosity • Excitement
• Guilt • Sorrow • Sympathy • Hope

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Empathy Anger

Food
• Nutrition • Cereal • Nourishment • Ingredient
• Vegetarian • Restaurant • Edible • Groceries

Restaurant Cereal

* Note: This is just a representative and inexhaustive list for guidance purpose only. For more such
words, please refer to: https://www.crestolympiads.com/csb-syllabus and
https://www.crestolympiads.com/csbw-syllabus.

Practice Questions
Direction (for questions 1-3): Which of the following statements has an incorrectly spelt
word?

1.
a. The ascend was too steep for me to climb.
b. Alan likes to eat cereal for breakfast.
c. He turned on the fauset and washed his hands with the icy water.
d. His anxiety led him to ask several questions.

2.
a. A Buddhist monk wears orange robes.
b. Do repitiles have spinal cords?
c. The car has been kept in the garage for a long time now.
d. May God give strength to the family of the deceased.

3.
a. The obvious answer of mom would be no.
b. No one can pridict the future.
c. My sister got furious when she found her assignment torn.
d. I want to convince my parents to send me on a school trip.

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Direction (for questions 4-8): Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

4.
a. Temporary b. Threaten
c. Recommend d. Repersent

5.
a. Arguement b. Precious
c. Appropriate d. Recognise

6.
a. Peculiar b. Plentiful
c. Apperent d. Awkward

7.
a. Fronteir b. Baggage
c. Blossom d. Competition

8.
a. Vacant b. Virtue
c. Venture d. Valiaint

Direction (for questions 9-15): Choose the correctly spelt word:

9.
a. Communication b. Congeratulate
c. Disputeable d. Genarosity

10.
a. Unbeleivable b. Certainity
c. Voluntry d. Essential

11.
a. Triviel b. Exteremely
c. Disteract d. Composed

12.
a. Bordom b. Vague
c. Startel d. Erand

13.
a. Moderate b. Signifikant
c. Conseal d. Dissclose

14.
a. Misslead b. Pledge
c. Braech d. Eneregetic

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15.
a. Weary b. Continiuing
c. Quanch d. Encuorage

Direction (for questions 16-20): Fill in the blanks with the most suitable option:

16. The teacher decided to ________ _____ the matter of extreme anxiety pangs of the student.

a. interfere onto b. enquire about

c. inquire into d. pick in

17. My mom always tells me to make the ______.

a. bed b. risk
c. holiday d. relationship

18. Nancy was fed _____ the slow speed of the internet.

a. up in b. down of
c. below about d. up with

19. Daisy blushed when teacher paid her a __________.

a. view b. compliment
c. complement d. compromise

20. Don’t go _____ with baiting offers, they keep coming in this mall every now and then.

a. crazy b. early
c. ashtray d. close

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