Quick Read: This page is the answer-and-explanation companion to eduKate Primary 6 Vocabulary Worksheet No.01082017. The purpose is not to reveal ten answers as quickly as possible. It is to show why each answer fits and why the nearest distractors fail.
Attempt the practice worksheet first. If the method itself is unclear, use the separate vocabulary-in-context strategy guide. This page should come last.
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Corrected Answer Key
- confide — normally used as confide in someone when sharing private worries or information.
- hire — we hire a lawyer or another professional to provide services.
- loser — the sentence rejects this unfair label rather than endorsing it.
- drop off — take someone to a place and leave them there.
- revolution — a major political or social overthrow or transformation.
- prestigious — respected and admired because of status, achievement or reputation.
- interfere — commonly used as interfere with when involvement is unwanted.
- buy — acquire ownership of the car.
- honourable — behaving according to strong moral principles.
- wearily — in a tired manner.
1. Confide
The sentence describes a friend with a serious problem who turns to trusted people rather than parents. Confide fits both meaning and pattern: confide in someone. The verb carries the idea of privacy and trust.
| Option | Why it fits or fails |
|---|---|
| confide | Fits meaning and collocation: confide in us. |
| converse | Means talk, often more formally; converse in us is not normal usage. |
| talk | Broad communication verb; talk in us is not the required construction. |
| engage | Too broad here unless a different structure is used, such as engage us in conversation. |
2. Hire
The sentence concerns obtaining the professional services of a lawyer. Hire is the most direct ordinary choice in this worksheet. Engage can also occur in formal professional English, but the sentence was designed around the common collocation hire a lawyer.
The teaching point is that natural language sometimes has more than one possible expression. A well-designed vocabulary question should provide enough context for one answer to be clearly best.
3. Loser
The sentence challenges a harmful label: failing once does not define a person’s future. Loser works because it is a noun referring to someone viewed as unsuccessful. The sentence itself signals disagreement with the label.
This is a useful reminder that vocabulary questions can contain social judgement. Students should notice whether a word is being used neutrally, critically or as a quoted label.
4. Drop Off
Drop off is a phrasal verb meaning take someone or something to a destination and leave them there. The childcare context makes the meaning clear.
| Phrasal verb | Meaning |
|---|---|
| drop off | take to a place and leave there; also fall asleep in another context |
| drop in | visit briefly without a long arrangement |
| drop out | leave a course, activity or system before completion |
| drop back | move to a position behind |
Phrasal verbs are difficult because the particle changes the meaning substantially. They should be learned as complete expressions.
5. Revolution
The key clue is that a ruling regime is overthrown and the political system changes fundamentally. That points to revolution.
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| revolution | major political/social overthrow or fundamental change |
| revelation | a disclosure or surprising discovery |
| evolution | gradual development; also a biological process |
These words are visually similar enough to create recognition errors. Meaning must override spelling resemblance.
6. Prestigious
Prestigious describes something respected because of status, achievement or reputation. Universities, awards, institutions and appointments can be prestigious.
Premium can describe a higher category, price or quality, but it does not normally replace prestigious when the sentence is about institutional reputation.
7. Interfere
Interfere with is the key collocation. The sentence describes unwanted involvement in another person’s decision. Meddle is a near-neighbour but tends to be more openly disapproving and personal.
This question therefore tests both meaning and tone.
8. Buy
The sentence describes comparing models and a budget before acquiring a second-hand car. Buy fits because ownership transfers to the parents.
Hire would imply temporary use or professional service; get is possible in everyday speech but is too broad for a precision question.
9. Honourable
The volunteer returns a wallet without taking any money and refuses a reward. The behaviour is evidence of moral principle, so honourable fits.
The important learning move is evidence → trait. The adjective should be justified by the action.
10. Wearily
The clue is physical exhaustion after a match. Wearily describes the tired manner of walking. Sadly describes emotion. A person may be both sad and tired, but the sentence foregrounds fatigue.
The Distractor Matrix
| Group | What students should learn |
|---|---|
| confide / converse / talk | Shared topic does not make words interchangeable; collocation matters. |
| revolution / revelation / evolution | Similar spelling does not imply similar meaning. |
| prestigious / premium | Positive connotation is not enough; reputation and quality/price are different. |
| interfere / meddle | Near-synonyms can differ in tone. |
| wearily / tiredly / sadly | Adverbs can foreground physical state or emotion differently. |
| hire / buy / get | Verb choice depends on the relationship between person, service and ownership. |
How to Turn One Wrong Answer Into Three New Learning Gains
- Explain why the correct word fits.
- Explain why the closest distractor fails.
- Write a sentence where that distractor becomes correct.
Example: if a student chose revelation instead of revolution, the repair is not “memorise revolution”. The repair is to write one sentence for each word and make the contrast explicit.
Error Types
| Error type | What it looks like |
|---|---|
| Meaning error | The word expresses the wrong idea. |
| Grammar error | The word class or form does not fit the slot. |
| Collocation error | The surrounding word partnership is unnatural. |
| Tone error | The word is too formal, informal, approving or critical. |
| Context error | The word fits locally but not the whole situation. |
| Confidence error | The answer was correct only by guess. |
Confidence Matters
A correct guess is not the same as secure knowledge. When checking, students should label each original response Certain, Unsure or Guess. Review all unsure and guessed answers even when the mark is correct.
Transfer Set
- The unusual headline ______ my curiosity about the article.
- The committee’s final decision is still ______.
- The manager was ______ with emails after the announcement.
- The witness gave an ______ look when the unlikely story was repeated.
- The team decided to ______ an external consultant to review the design.
Possible answers: piqued, pending, inundated, incredulous, hire/engage depending the exact intended register.
Retrieval Set — No Options
Cover the answer key and complete these from memory:
- A verb meaning to share private information with a trusted person: ______
- An adjective meaning respected because of status or reputation: ______
- A noun for a major political overthrow: ______
- A phrasal verb meaning take someone to a place and leave them there: ______
- An adverb meaning in a tired manner: ______
Answers: confide, prestigious, revolution, drop off, wearily.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why keep a separate answers page?
Because practice, strategy and explanation are different learning jobs. Keeping them separate allows students to attempt first, learn method second and review reasoning last.
Should students memorise this answer key?
No. They should be able to explain why each word fits and transfer it to a new sentence.
What should happen after correction?
Delayed retrieval. Revisit the same distinctions several days later without the answer page visible.
Library Routes
- Primary 6 Vocabulary Practice Worksheet
- Vocabulary-in-Context Strategy Guide
- Vocabulary Article Directory
- eduKate Vocabulary Learning System
Library note: This page remains the answer-and-explanation owner for Worksheet No.01082017. The 2026 edition preserves the title and URL while expanding the answer key into a full diagnostic lesson on grammar, collocation, meaning, tone, distractors, confidence and retrieval.