Eiken Vocabulary Test Online

This is a pure web app that evaluates your EIKEN vocabulary skills. The app has a built-in basic level EIKEN vocabulary of 1200 words, which can help you devise a vocabulary-building plan to prepare for the test.
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Eiken Vocabulary Test Online is a tool for building vocabulary for Grade Pre-1 and Grade 1. It includes 1200 basic words from the 4,000 Eiken Vocabulary List.

The app's primary functionality is to dynamically create Eiken word question sheets. Its core features include showing quizzes and auto-checking answers. Students can also store the results of each test for further analysis.

The app has some extra features that similar tools rarely have. It includes a sample sentence for each word, which helps a lot when learning new words. It also provides definitions of 9 languages for every word and lets ESL students select their mother language and integrate it with an English explanation.

Eiken Vocabulary Test Online is free, but you should sign up to save your tests. You can use a generic examword.com account (email/access code) to sign in. If you don't have an account yet, creating one only takes a few minutes. Sign up and start to enjoy this fantastic web app!
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actual
 
 
(1)
a.  E.g. And the defense secretary retraced what he called the actual history of how the U.S. got involved in Iraq.
Select answer:
short-lived; enduring a very short time
sophisticated; of worldwide scope
true; real; being, existing, or acting at the present moment; current
tame; accustomed to home life
tending to vary often or widely, as in price; inconstant or fickle; tending to violence
Don't select.
bitterness
 
 
(2)
n.  E.g. I had left this woman in bitterness and hate, and I came back to her now with no other emotion than a sort of compassion for her great sufferings.
Select answer:
silvery ductile metallic element
something useful; public service
someone who has given long service
sharp and bitter manner
type or class; a kind of literary or artistic work
Don't select.
confining
 
 
(3)
a.  E.g. Obviously you will travel in a confining ship with humans.
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worthy of note or notice; remarkable; important
favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change
restricting scope or freedom of action; crowded
salty; containing salt; of or relating to chemical salts
employing or showing humor; funny; amusing
Don't select.
excavate
 
 
(4)
v.  E.g. The mining company wants to excavate the hill site.
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grip; take hold of or seize firmly with or as if with the hand
work out with care and detail; develop thoroughly
start; initiate; induct into office by formal ceremony
renovate; make new or as if new again; restore
unearth; dig out; make a hole in; hollow out
Don't select.
fiction
 
 
(5)
n.  E.g. It can be very inhibiting for an author if he or she knows that what happens in fiction is going to be taken so seriously.
Select answer:
something that has real or substantial existence; means of support or maintain life
story; imaginative creation; literary work whose content is produced by imagination
tool; one used by another to accomplish a purpose; device used to produce music; legal document
small kernels of corn exploded by heat
solid part of the earth consisting of the crust
Don't select.
ineligible
 
 
(6)
a.  E.g. Some farmers have said the system is unfair because many families are ineligible for help if a wife or son has taken up work in a nearby town.
Select answer:
with meaning; word for word; letter by letter
unprincipled; lacking honesty
unavoidably; in a manner that is impossible to avoid or prevent
yearly; each year; returning every year; year by year
unsuitable; disqualified by law, rule, or provision; unworthy of being chosen
Don't select.
majority
 
 
(7)
n.  E.g. He is not planning to expel foreign companies, but he does want majority control of all ventures and a greater share of the profits.
Select answer:
shopping center; public area set aside as a pedestrian walk
distinctive taste; quality produced by the sensation of taste
stage; a raised horizontal surface
greater number or part; a number more than half of the total
season of growth; season of spring
Don't select.
overtire
 
 
(8)
v.  E.g. To walk at a pace that does not overtire you.
Select answer:
take away a vital or essential part of
speculate; suppose; believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds
stand up against; successfully resist; oppose with force or resolution
tire excessively; fatigue to exhaustion
set or keep apart; disunite; divide; disconnect
Don't select.
reign
 
 
(9)
n.  E.g. 51-year-old Tuheitia Paki is the eldest son of the previous monarch, who died last week at the age of 75, after a reign of 40 years.
Select answer:
someone who operates an aircraft
task or assignment undertaken; career
sovereignty; rule; dominance or widespread influence
thrift; prudent economy; sparing use
single-mast sailing boat
Don't select.
slide
 
 
(10)
v.  E.g. We slide until the bottom of the hill.
Select answer:
restore from a depressed; renew
spread gradually; cause liquid to pass through small holes; filter
take place; be found to exist ; come to one's mind
restore to good condition; renew
slip; move usually in an uncontrolled manner; move smoothly along a surface
Don't select.
stiffen
 
 
(11)
v.  E.g. Critics say there is no way to enforce that provision, and the House has turned back at least one Republican effort to stiffen citizenship checks.
Select answer:
support; sustain; carry; have; yield; give birth; hold up or support
condescend to give or grant; esteem worthy; consider worth notice
restrict; become stiff or stiffer
sew; knit; fasten or join with or as if with thread
unearth; dig out; make a hole in; hollow out
Don't select.
tundra
 
 
(12)
n.  E.g. Underneath the tundra is the active layer, a coat of peaty, semi-decomposed organic matter that passes for soil.
Select answer:
type or class; a kind of literary or artistic work
sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo
small part of something intended as representative of the whole
strategy; policy; plan for attaining a particular goal
rolling, treeless plain in Siberia and arctic North America
Don't select.
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