This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Morphology > Root Words – Quiz 2 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Root Words Quiz 2 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does the root word ..... PATH mean? A) Star. B) Under. C) Not. D) Disease; feeling. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Disease; feeling. 2. What is the root word of the word "beautiful" ? A) Beauti. B) Ful. C) Beau. D) Beauty. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Beauty. 3. ..... aling (Greek root meaning "foot") A) Aut. B) Phono. C) Aster. D) Ped. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ped. 4. One who watches an event A) Speculate. B) Spectrum. C) Spectator. D) Spectacular. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spectator. 5. Laney was a spectator at the game. What does the root in spectator mean? A) To look. B) To laugh. C) To say. D) To listen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To look. 6. Word meaning addition. A) Sum. B) Quotient. C) Product. D) Difference. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sum. 7. What does the Latin root "bi" mean? A) Earth. B) Life. C) Two. D) Sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Two. 8. We ..... what our stories will be about before we read them. A) Dictator. B) Dictation. C) Verdict. D) Predict. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Predict. 9. Fill in the blank with the correct word ..... I went shopping for ..... fruit and vegetables because they are healthy. A) Organic. B) Flat. C) Small. D) Biology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Organic. 10. The students in Mrs. Wall's third period geometry class measured the circumference of the globe hanging from the back corner of the classroom. What does the root word "circum" mean in the word "circumference?" A) Self or same. B) Around or about. C) Go or move. D) Well. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Around or about. 11. Which root word means word? A) Ject. B) At, wise. C) Jur. D) Log, logue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Log, logue. 12. She will dictate the test to you since it is hard to read on the paper. What does the root word mean in dictate? A) Speak. B) Listen. C) Laught. D) Write. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Speak. 13. The word tripod contains the root tri. What does the root tri mean? A) Many. B) Three. C) Foot. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Three. 14. What does the root word ..... IN mean? A) Born. B) Having to do with. C) Not. D) Star. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not. 15. Fill in the blank with the correct word ..... A runny nose, a cough, and a fever are all ..... of a cold. A) Kinds. B) Symptoms. C) Part. D) Types. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symptoms. 16. What does cardi mean? A) Move. B) Shape. C) Heart. D) Give. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Heart. 17. This root word means-to believe A) Cred. B) Geo. C) Anti. D) Chron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cred. 18. The counterfeiting is illegal. The prefix il means- A) Wrong. B) Not. C) Under. D) With. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not. 19. To build of create A) Struct. B) Graph. C) Tract. D) Spect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Struct. 20. Full of pain = ..... A) Painer. B) Painful. C) Prepain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Painful. 21. Which word is a synonym for (MOSTLY) SEE THROUGH? A) Visible. B) Philanthropy. C) Evident. D) Translucent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Translucent. 22. The root word for "to see" is ..... A) At/show. B) Tele. C) Phon/phone. D) Scop/scope. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) At/show. 23. The root word for "to move" is ..... A) Mob/against/mov. B) Micro. C) Bio. D) Gram/graph. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mob/against/mov. 24. The set of whole numbers and their opposites. A) Mean. B) Reciprocal. C) Proportion. D) Integers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Integers. 25. What root word means "to speak" ? A) Dic, dict. B) Fac, fact. C) Act. D) Dur. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dic, dict. 26. Study of the earth A) Geology. B) Autogeology. C) Geography. D) Autobiography. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Geology. 27. If we add an "est" to the end happy what would the new word be? A) Full of happy. B) Happiest. C) Happy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Happiest. 28. The jury deliberated for three hours before reaching a verdict. What does the root word "jur" mean in "jury?" A) Law or justice. B) Between, within, or among. C) Say. D) Human. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Law or justice. 29. What is the root word of swims? A) Swims. B) Swimming. C) Swim. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Swim. 30. What does the root word chron mean? A) Color. B) Thought. C) Time. D) Space. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Time. 31. The suffix "y" means ..... A) Without. B) All the time. C) Voice. D) Characterized by/having. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Characterized by/having. 32. What does the Greek root "anti" mean? A) Sound. B) Before. C) Against. D) Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Against. 33. The root word DICT means ..... A) To speak/say. B) Water. C) To look/see. D) Three. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To speak/say. 34. Find the SYNONYM for monologue A) Chat. B) Boring. C) Dialogue. D) Speech. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Speech. 35. What does the word disrupt mean? A) To cause a break or problem in something. B) To cause something to be dragged along. C) To cause a change in the amount of light. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To cause a break or problem in something. 36. The word diameter contains the root meter. What does the root meter mean? A) Shape. B) Measure. C) Write or draw. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Measure. 37. "micro" means ..... A) Sound. B) Far. C) Small. D) Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Small. 38. What does the root word mar mean? A) Dirt. B) Water. C) Sea. D) Hot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sea. 39. What does "Pulmon" refer to A) Stomach. B) Lungs. C) Veins. D) Sugar. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lungs. 40. What is the root word for cheerful? A) Cheer. B) Eerful. C) Ful. D) Eer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cheer. 41. Which word correctly completes the sentence below?This is a ..... street corner. A) Dangerly. B) Danger. C) Dangerously. D) Dangerous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dangerous. 42. The Latin root spec means- A) See or Look. B) Measure. C) Time. D) Light. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) See or Look. 43. "vid/vis" means ..... A) Small. B) See/watch. C) To see. D) Writing/drawing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To see. 44. What does the Latin root "script" mean? A) Life. B) Earth. C) Sound. D) To write. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To write. 45. Graph is a Greek root that means- A) Measure. B) Same, with, together. C) Say. D) Write. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Write. 46. Choreo ..... ( Greek root meaning "write" or "draw") A) Graph. B) With. C) Port. D) Tempo. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Graph. 47. What physical feature did Jonas and Gabriel have in common? A) Freckles. B) Pug nose. C) Black hair. D) Pale eyes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pale eyes. 48. PATHOLOGY is the study of ..... A) Disease. B) Ideas. C) Minerals. D) Happiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Disease. 49. "Mary enjoys eating the apple." Which word in the sentence is only a root word? A) Enjoys. B) Apple. C) Eating. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Apple. 50. This root word mean time A) Telegraph. B) Chronology. C) Chronicle. D) Chron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chron. 51. The narrator of the story is clearly omniscient, revealing the secrets and feelings of all the characters. What does the root word "omni" mean in "omniscient?" A) Peace. B) Strong. C) Shape or form. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All. 52. Which of these words contains the Greek root "phon" ? A) Manuscript. B) Antibiotic. C) Telephone. D) Biography. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Telephone. 53. The root word GRAPH means ..... A) To speak/say. B) Look/see. C) Water. D) To write. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To write. 54. Meaning of Matriarchy? (noun) A) Government controlled by males. B) Group controlled by dolphins. C) Group controlled by females. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Group controlled by females. 55. What does the root word ..... AST mean? A) Found. B) Study of. C) Path. D) Star. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Star. 56. What does "carci" refer to A) Cancer. B) Bones. C) Acid. D) Disease. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cancer. 57. What does fer mean? A) Shorten. B) Heart. C) Carry. D) High. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carry. 58. What does the root word pyro mean? A) Life. B) Wind. C) Fire. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fire. 59. What is the root word(s) in the words "disinformation" A) Form. B) Form. C) Inform. D) Format. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Form. 60. 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