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Level 6: Advanced/Proficiency >> Vocabulary Worksheets >> These vocabulary formation worksheets require your students to create new words from base words to fill space in sentences.

Word Formation. Worksheet 7.

For each question, fill the space or spaces in the sentence using the base word given in bold at the end. The required word may be a noun, adverb, adjective or verb and it may be either positive (e.g. helpful) or negative (e.g. unhelpful).

1. Walk on for about half a mile and when you see the _____________ in the forest
clear

2. I don't know why I rang you so late. I just had this _____________ _____________ to speak to you.
believe
compel

3. _____________ of how you feel about it, this company has to go ahead with the redundancy plan.
regard

4. The boy was punished for an _____________ to apologise to the two boys.
willing

5. Anthony is a quiet, _____________ type. You will always find him reading or studying something.
book

6. This plane is also fitted with the latest ground _____________ radar and a totally _____________ take-off and landing system.
avoid
computer

7. These solar batteries will work not only when the sun is shining but as long as there is any _____________.
day