Duolingo English Test (DET)

Duolingo English Test — Read and Select and Read and Complete, Set 1

Take the Duolingo English Test — Read and Select and Read and Complete, Set 1: 20 multiple-choice questions (30 minutes) with instant scoring and a full…

What this test covers

20 DET Vocabulary

Sample questions with answers

The first 5 questions of this test, with the correct answer and explanation.

Q1. Which one of these is a real English word: harvest, plorish, snerple or trinzle?
- A. snerple
- B. harvest ✓
- C. trinzle
- D. plorish
Answer: B. harvest
Explanation: Harvest (the gathering of crops) is a real word; the others are invented.
Q2. Which one of these is a real English word: fendrick, glarnish, journey or wobsle?
- A. fendrick
- B. wobsle
- C. glarnish
- D. journey ✓
Answer: D. journey
Explanation: Journey is a real word.
Q3. Which one of these is a real English word: crandish, dropulate, gentle or plimmet?
- A. crandish
- B. dropulate
- C. gentle ✓
- D. plimmet
Answer: C. gentle
Explanation: Gentle is a real word.
Q4. Which one of these is a real English word: ancient, brostle, quenter or smorvid?
- A. ancient ✓
- B. quenter
- C. brostle
- D. smorvid
Answer: A. ancient
Explanation: Ancient (very old) is a real word.
Q5. Which one of these is a real English word: borrow, flinter, gratchet or plunsey?
- A. gratchet
- B. flinter
- C. borrow ✓
- D. plunsey
Answer: C. borrow
Explanation: Borrow is a real word.

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Q6. Which one of these is a real English word: advice, drindle, scavvish or tremulate?
- A. drindle
- B. advice
- C. tremulate
- D. scavvish
Q7. Which one of these is a real English word: flobbery, reliable, smentive or trapsical?
- A. trapsical
- B. flobbery
- C. smentive
- D. reliable
Q8. Which one of these is a real English word: clundify, distinguish, mostrinate or reparble?
- A. reparble
- B. distinguish
- C. clundify
- D. mostrinate
Q9. Which one of these is a real English word: gindaric, pomulent, reluctant or sterquid?
- A. reluctant
- B. pomulent
- C. sterquid
- D. gindaric
Q10. Which one of these is a real English word: ambiguous, fravidous, pelsoric or tromulate?
- A. tromulate
- B. fravidous
- C. ambiguous
- D. pelsoric
Q11. Choose the word that correctly completes the gap: "The library is a quiet pla__ to study."
- A. plane
- B. plays
- C. plate
- D. place
Q12. Choose the word that correctly completes the gap: "Please turn off the lig__ when you leave the room."
- A. ligament
- B. lightning
- C. light
- D. lighter
Q13. Choose the word that correctly completes the gap: "She was so tir__ after the long journey that she fell asleep at once."
- A. tiresome
- B. tiring
- C. tires
- D. tired
Q14. Choose the word that correctly completes the gap: "The scientist carried out an exper__ to test her idea."
- A. experiment
- B. expert
- C. expertise
- D. experience
Q15. Choose the word that correctly completes the gap: "It is important to drink enough wat__ on a hot day."
- A. water
- B. watery
- C. watt
- D. watch
Q16. Choose the word that correctly completes the gap: "The train was del__ by two hours because of the snow."
- A. delivered
- B. delayed
- C. deleted
- D. delighted
Q17. Choose the word that correctly completes the gap: "He could not afford the car because it was too expen__."
- A. expending
- B. expended
- C. expensive
- D. expenses
Q18. Choose the word that correctly completes the gap: "The audience applau__ loudly at the end of the concert."
- A. applaudable
- B. applauding
- C. applause
- D. applauded
Q19. Choose the word that correctly completes the gap: "We need to redu__ the amount of plastic we use."
- A. reduce
- B. reduced
- C. redundant
- D. reduction
Q20. Choose the word that correctly completes the gap: "The new medicine had no seri__ side effects."
- A. seriously
- B. serious
- C. serial
- D. series