Test your vocabulary with these 18 questions.
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#1. Pants mean underwear in British English but refer to __________ in American English.
#2. Inside a square there are 4 ___________ angles.
#3. A piece of woolly clothing which has buttons at the front and is usually worn on top of other clothes is called __________.
#4. "That new play that opened in the local theatre last weekend bombed!" What's the meaning of bombed in American English?
#5. He works in a factory as a __________ worker.
#6. When I was a child I got £5 __________ money from my parents every week.
#7. What do we call the line from the centre to the edge of a circle?
#8. __________ are clothes you wear when you are sleeping.
#9. Which of the following shapes has three sides?
#10. In British English it's a pavement. In American it's a ______________.
#11. The small decorative objects used to fasten the end of sleeves are called __________.
#12. In many games we throw a dice (a six sided object), but what shape is it?
#13. The American term 'adobe' refers to:
#14. What shape is a football?
#15. In American English it's an 'elevator'. In British English it's a ________.
#16. At a bus stop, the British form a queue. Americans _______________.
#17. The American term 'slugfest' comes from German and means:
