This is a test of how well you know the meaning of adjectives that are commonly used in English. Each item looks like this:
sudden
beautiful quick surprising thirsty change doctor noise school
There are eight words in the two boxes (left & right boxes).
From the two boxes, select four words that you think are relevant to the stimulus word (i.e., ‘sudden’ in this example), according to the criteria mentioned above. Use your computer's mouse to check the answers like this:
The words here on the left side may help to explain the meaning of "sudden". The words here on the right side are nouns that may come after "sudden" in a phrase or a sentence.
"Sudden" means "happening quickly and unexpectedly", so the correct answers on the left side are "quick" and "surprising". We do not normally say "a sudden doctor" or "a sudden school", but we often say "a sudden change" and "a sudden noise", so "change" and "noise" are the correct answers on this side.
sudden
beautiful quick surprising thirsty change doctor noise school
Note: In this example, there are two correct answers on the left and two on the right, but this is just an example. Do NOT assume there is a consistent number of correct answers on the left or on the right. Just remember: try to find four related words for each item.
For more information see J. Read (1993), The development of a new measure of vocabulary knowledge. Language Testing 10(3), 355-371.