This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Morphology > Root Words – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Root Words Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. My first impulse is to scream when someone shouts, "Boo!" What does the root word "puls" mean in "impulse?" A) Lead. B) Drive or push. C) Believe or trust. D) Hang or weigh. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Drive or push. 2. Which sentence contains the root word of the word "blowing" ? A) Blow out the candles on your cake. B) The sky is blue. C) There is a low chance of rain today. D) The bird has an injured wing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blow out the candles on your cake. 3. Bill Gates can be called ..... since he provides money, schools, and hospitals in the poorest of countries. A) Bending. B) Bonus. C) Benevolent. D) Well living. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Benevolent. 4. What does "tox" refer to A) Muscle. B) Blood. C) Poison. D) Bacteria. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poison. 5. Record, writing, or drawing of the Earth A) Biography. B) Biology. C) Geography. D) Geology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Geography. 6. The root word for "see/watch" is ..... A) Auto. B) At/show. C) Scop/scope. D) Phon/phone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scop/scope. 7. "over" is word part, what does it mean? A) Under. B) Above. C) Over. D) Opposite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Over. 8. Which word has the root word in it for distance? A) Telescope. B) Microphone. C) Automotive. D) Graphical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Telescope. 9. The root "aqua-" in aquarium means A) Life. B) Water. C) Object. D) Unique. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Water. 10. What does the root word geo mean? A) Wind. B) End. C) Earth. D) Air. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Earth. 11. What does "heam" refer to A) Fats. B) Lungs. C) Blood. D) The heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blood. 12. Which word means YOUR PERSONAL BELIEFS A) Elucidate. B) Lucid. C) Vision. D) Philosophy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Philosophy. 13. The Greek word anin means: A) Spirit, soul, life. B) Dead, dying. C) Laugh, love, light. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spirit, soul, life. 14. Name the root word in retake. A) More. B) Re. C) To it. D) Take. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Take. 15. Identify the root word in aquarium. A) Ium. B) Common. C) Aqua. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aqua. 16. Which word part means "self" ? A) Therm. B) Auto. C) Less. D) Ind. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Auto. 17. Meter is Greek root that means- A) Measure. B) Carry. C) Time. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Measure. 18. The root word for "life" is ..... A) At/show. B) Bio. C) Scop/scope. D) Phon/phone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bio. 19. The root word of the word "approval" is oval. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FALSE. 20. Given this word family, what do you think the root spect mean?Inspect Spectacle Suspect A) Over. B) Change. C) Watch. D) Land. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Watch. 21. The first word on the question that requires. Contra/Counter A) Scrib/Scribe. B) Fac. C) Morph. D) Everyone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fac. 22. To drag or to pull A) Write. B) Tract. C) Trans. D) Ject. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tract. 23. What is the root word of swinging? A) Swinging. B) Swings. C) Swing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Swing. 24. Automobile ..... What does the root in this word mean? A) Love. B) Self. C) Sound. D) Speak. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Self. 25. To hear / listen A) Astro. B) Auto. C) Aud. D) Cardio. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aud. 26. "Dict" means to say A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 27. The root word-tract means? A) In traffic. B) To shape. C) To pull. D) Tractable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To pull. 28. Name the root word in uncooked. A) And. B) Cook. C) Cooked. D) Ed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cook. 29. The word part "sion, tion, ion" mean ..... A) State. B) Life. C) Action/process of. D) Characterization. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Action/process of. 30. What is the root word for walked? A) Wal. B) Walk. C) Walke. D) Ed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Walk. 31. Which pair of words is INCORRECT? A) Judge-misjudge. B) Decor-decorate. C) Patient-impatient. D) Peach-impeach. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Peach-impeach. 32. Omni-means ..... A) All. B) Life. C) Both. D) Together. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All. 33. What is the root word for entertaining? A) Enter. B) Entertain. C) Enter. D) And. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Entertain. 34. Fill in the blank with the correct word ..... Mrs. McCloskey's friend was an ..... A) Asteroid. B) Police officer. C) Astronaut. D) Teacher. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Astronaut. 35. Duc, duce, & duct mean ..... A) To lead. B) To turn. C) To duck. D) Ductable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To lead. 36. What is the name of the punctuation mark when using prefixes or suffixes? A) Exclamation point. B) Hyphen. C) Question mark. D) Quotation mark. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyphen. 37. What does the root aut mean A) End. B) Self. C) Cary. D) Foot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Self. 38. Inject, objection, and project come from the root "ject" which means A) Break, burst. B) To throw. C) Measure. D) Feeling, suffering. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To throw. 39. If a book is about marine life, which root is likely to be present in its title? A) Alter. B) Aqua. C) Geo. D) Uni. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aqua. 40. What is the root word of hides? A) Hided. B) Hides. C) Hide. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hide. 41. Which adjective best describes Jonas A) Apprehensive. B) Anxious. C) Nervous. D) Scared. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apprehensive. 42. Tim's voice was barely audible when he whispered his secret in my left ear. What does the root word "audi" mean in "audible?" A) Both sides. B) Opposite. C) Hear or listen. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hear or listen. 43. What is the root word for washes? A) Washed. B) Watch. C) Wash. D) Ash. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Wash. 44. The root word for "self" is ..... A) Auto. B) Bio. C) Micro. D) Tele. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Auto. 45. The Greek root word ge, commonly used in the English prefix "geo", means- A) Measure. B) Light. C) Earth. D) Look. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Earth. 46. What is the root word of wanted? A) Wanting. B) Want. C) Wants. D) Ant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Want. 47. Photo is a Greek root that means- A) Sound. B) Earth. C) Light. D) Carry. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Light. 48. What does "lipid" refer to A) Kidney. B) Fats. C) Heart. D) Bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fats. 49. What does the root word aero mean? A) Thought. B) Air. C) Earth. D) Plane. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Air. 50. What does alt mean? A) Shape. B) Step. C) Water. D) High. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) High. 51. Find a word with the same root word:rethinking. A) Reread. B) Jumping. C) Replay. D) Thinks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thinks. 52. What is the root word for finally? A) Final. B) Ally. C) Nally. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Final. 53. The root word BI means ..... A) To write. B) To look / see. C) Two. D) Three. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Two. 54. A noun meaning "a group of people who listen to a performance": A) Audible. B) Vista. C) Audience. D) Cacophony. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Audience. 55. What does firm mean? A) Shout. B) Carry. C) Tightly fixed. D) Head. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tightly fixed. 56. Think about the root words in "biology" . What does this word mean? A) To write about life. B) The study of small things. C) To watch life. D) The study of life. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The study of life. 57. "scop/scope" means ..... A) See/watch. B) Sound. C) To move. D) To see. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) See/watch. 58. The word part "de" means ..... A) Not. B) Opposite. C) Opinion. D) Onion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Opposite. 59. EXTRA ROOT:Chron-means ..... A) Technology. B) Time. C) Graph. D) Keys. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Time. 60. The root rupt means break or burst. What does the word disrupt mean? A) To cause a break or problem in something. B) To cause something to be dragged along. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To cause a break or problem in something. Next →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesRoot Words Quiz 2Root Words Quiz 3Root Words Quiz 4Root Words Quiz 5Root Words Quiz 6Root Words Quiz 7Root Words Quiz 8Prefixes And Suffixes Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books