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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 __CLEARANCE__ in the forest
clear

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

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

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

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

6. This plane is also fitted with the latest ground __AVOIDANCE__ radar and a totally __COMPUTERIZED__ 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 __DAYLIGHT__.
day