This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Morphology > Root Words – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Root Words Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Act of, condition of, state of A) Ab. B) Ex. C) Tele. D) -ance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) -ance. 2. "ology/ologist" means ..... A) Life. B) See/watch. C) Writing/drawing. D) The study of/one who studies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The study of/one who studies. 3. Which word means how the study of handwriting can reveal things about someone's personality? A) Orthography. B) Grammar. C) Graphology. D) Promote. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Graphology. 4. Fill in the blank with the correct word ..... His ..... was paid for with cash. A) Type. B) Advertise. C) Incapable. D) Transaction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Transaction. 5. She was jabbering about nonsense that we couldn't understand. What is the meaning of nonsense? A) Telling everyone. B) Not speaking loudly. C) Speaking clearly. D) Not making any sense. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Not making any sense. 6. Some ..... fans of Villanova bought a jersey last spring after they won the Final Four in basketball. A) Benediction. B) Immobile. C) See them. D) Bona fide. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bona fide. 7. The root word TELE means ..... A) Two. B) Far. C) Water. D) To speak/say. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Far. 8. Which word correctly completes the sentence below?Always be ..... when you cross the street. A) Carefully. B) Careful. C) Caringly. D) Carefuller. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Careful. 9. Lines that are always the same distance apart. They do not intersect. A) Parallel. B) Prime. C) Reciprocal. D) Volume. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parallel. 10. What does the Greek root "bio" refer to? A) Life. B) Earth. C) Water. D) Sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Life. 11. Root word meaning to hear or listen A) Graphy. B) Aud. C) View/at. D) Phon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aud. 12. The word telegraph contains the root tele. What does the root tele mean? A) Write or draw. B) Far away. C) Hear or listen. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Far away. 13. My friend is very ..... She likes to explore new places and try new things. A) Preventive. B) Surround. C) Convenient. D) Adventurous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Adventurous. 14. Jameson D. McCormick was a generous benefactor at the University of Santa Ana, providing several scholarships to incoming freshmen. What does the root word "bene" mean in "benefactor?" A) Self or same. B) Around or about. C) Go or move. D) Well. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Well. 15. The average of all the numbers in a data set. A) Mean. B) Median. C) Reciprocal. D) Variable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mean. 16. What does solve mean? A) Tightly fixed. B) Center. C) Loosen. D) Head. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Loosen. 17. What does the word part "geo" mean? A) Mountains. B) Time. C) Earth. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Earth. 18. Which word correctly completes the sentence below?The waves were crashing ..... at the beach. A) Loudness. B) Loud. C) Loudly. D) Louding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Loudly. 19. Record, writing, or drawing A) Frac. B) Graph. C) Tract. D) Write. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Graph. 20. What does hosp mean? A) Water. B) Air. C) Head. D) Host. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Host. 21. Find a word with the same root word:reading. A) Skipping. B) Laughing. C) Reread. D) Rehire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reread. 22. The root word "ject" (ex:objection, projectile) means ..... A) Feeling or suffering. B) Break, burst. C) Measure. D) To throw. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To throw. 23. The Latin word carn means: A) Meat. B) Nature. C) Life. D) Laugh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meat. 24. What does re mean in the words revive and revitalize? A) After. B) Again. C) Within. D) Outside. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Again. 25. A leader who rules with total power A) Dictation. B) Dictator. C) Predict. D) Verdict. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dictator. 26. If hydrate means to give or have enough water what does dehydrated mean? A) Losing water. B) Not having enough water. C) Sharing water. D) Spilling water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not having enough water. 27. Which word has the SAME word word as washes? A) Watches. B) Washing. C) Ashed. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Washing. 28. What is the root word for rewriting? A) Rewrite. B) Write. C) Writeagain. D) Writing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Write. 29. What does the root word ..... TRANS mean? A) To; toward. B) Not. C) With; together. D) Across; through. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Across; through. 30. Fill in the blank with the correct word ..... The ..... in New York is what people take to work instead of driving. A) Scooter. B) Subway. C) Pathogen. D) Airplane. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Subway. 31. By midmorning I'm already hungry for lunch. The prefix mid means ..... A) Early. B) Middle. C) Under, below. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Middle. 32. Find a word with the same root word:unlocked. A) Unusual. B) Locking. C) Unhappy. D) Played. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Locking. 33. Unable or unwilling to believe something A) Credential. B) Incredulous. C) Creed. D) Creditor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Incredulous. 34. What does the root word kyro mean? A) Light. B) Ice. C) Black. D) Fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ice. 35. Which sentence contains the root word of the word "midway" ? A) She called me in the middle of the night. B) This is the way to the concert venue. C) This is my most awaited day!. D) We will wait for midnight before we eat the food. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) This is the way to the concert venue. 36. The word part "non" means ..... A) Negative. B) Not. C) Without. D) With. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not. 37. A chronograph is a machine that marks things according to A) Mr. Lucas. B) Time. C) Distance. D) Length. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Time. 38. Patriarchal (adjective) A) Characteristic of a system controlled by puppies. B) Characteristic of a system controlled by dogs. C) Characteristic of a system controlled by women. D) Characteristic of a system controlled by men. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Characteristic of a system controlled by men. 39. Which root word means "time" ? A) Liber. B) Chron. C) Phon. D) Therm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chron. 40. What is the root word for friendly A) Friends. B) Friend. C) Fri. D) Ly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Friend. 41. Geology is the study of rocks and what the ..... is made of. A) Science. B) Life. C) Earth. D) Penguins. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Earth. 42. What does the word spectacular mean? A) Difficult or impossible to break. B) Hard or difficult to understand. C) Amazing or exciting to look at. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Amazing or exciting to look at. 43. ..... synthesis (greek root meaning "related to light") A) Photo. B) Form. C) Tempo. D) Phono. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Photo. 44. What does the root word ..... GEN mean? A) Born. B) Disease; feeling. C) With; together. D) Star. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Born. 45. What does urb mean? A) City. B) Center. C) Move. D) Foot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) City. 46. What is the root word of runs? A) Runs. B) Run. C) Ran. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Run. 47. A telescope is a tool that is used to look at something that is far away, in outer space. The root tele means far away. What does the root scope mean? A) Look at or observe. B) Measure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Look at or observe. 48. What does grad mean? A) Water. B) Shape. C) Loosen. D) Step. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Step. 49. Our teacher will inspect our work. Tomorrow is the ..... A) Organization. B) Inspection. C) Inspect. D) Invitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inspection. 50. Biology is the study of living things. The root logy means the study of something. What does the root bio mean? A) Light. B) Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Life. 51. Given this word family, what do you think the root cred means?CreditCredibleIncredible A) Friend. B) Make. C) Around. D) Believe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Believe. 52. To examine carefully, especially for flaws A) Inspect. B) Speculate. C) Prospect. D) Circumspect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inspect. 53. What does bio mean A) Carry. B) Life. C) Sound. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Life. 54. Congenial (adjective) A) Sad. B) Angry. C) Rude. D) Friendly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Friendly. 55. Syn-/Sym-means ..... A) Together. B) Bonded. C) Communication. D) Land. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Together. 56. What does the Greek root "jur/jud" mean? A) Law. B) To hear. C) Believe. D) To pull or draw. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Law. 57. We call it a "submarine" because "sub" means? A) Water. B) Above. C) Ocean. D) Under. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Under. 58. What does the root word photo mean? A) Space. B) Light. C) Image. D) Time. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Light. 59. What does the root word Pod mean? (a) A) Step. B) Give. C) Center. D) Shorten. E) A Foot. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) A Foot. 60. The root word for "sound" is ..... A) Scop/scope. B) At/show. C) Ology/ologist. D) Phon/phone. 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