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 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The root rupt means break or burst. What does the word disrupt mean? A) To cause something to be dragged along. B) To cause a break or problem in something. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To cause a break or problem in something. 2. What does the root word ..... PATH mean? A) Disease; feeling. B) Under. C) Star. D) Not. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Disease; feeling. 3. What is the root word of the word "beautiful" ? A) Beauty. B) Beau. C) Beauti. D) Ful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beauty. 4. ..... aling (Greek root meaning "foot") A) Phono. B) Aster. C) Ped. D) Aut. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ped. 5. One who watches an event A) Speculate. B) Spectacular. C) Spectator. D) Spectrum. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spectator. 6. Laney was a spectator at the game. What does the root in spectator mean? A) To say. B) To laugh. C) To look. D) To listen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To look. 7. Word meaning addition. A) Product. B) Sum. C) Quotient. D) Difference. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sum. 8. What does the Latin root "bi" mean? A) Two. B) Earth. C) Life. D) Sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Two. 9. We ..... what our stories will be about before we read them. A) Predict. B) Verdict. C) Dictation. D) Dictator. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Predict. 10. 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. 11. 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) Go or move. B) Well. C) Around or about. D) Self or same. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Around or about. 12. Which root word means word? A) Jur. B) Ject. C) At, wise. D) Log, logue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Log, logue. 13. 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) Listen. B) Speak. C) Laught. D) Write. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speak. 14. 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. 15. What does the root word ..... IN mean? A) Born. B) Having to do with. C) Not. D) Star. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not. 16. Fill in the blank with the correct word ..... A runny nose, a cough, and a fever are all ..... of a cold. A) Part. B) Symptoms. C) Types. D) Kinds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Symptoms. 17. What does cardi mean? A) Heart. B) Shape. C) Give. D) Move. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heart. 18. This root word means-to believe A) Chron. B) Cred. C) Geo. D) Anti. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cred. 19. The counterfeiting is illegal. The prefix il means- A) With. B) Wrong. C) Not. D) Under. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not. 20. To build of create A) Graph. B) Spect. C) Struct. D) Tract. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Struct. 21. Full of pain = ..... A) Painer. B) Painful. C) Prepain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Painful. 22. Which word is a synonym for (MOSTLY) SEE THROUGH? A) Evident. B) Translucent. C) Philanthropy. D) Visible. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Translucent. 23. Across, beyond, or through A) Trans. B) Of-. C) Astro. D) Chrono. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trans. 24. The root word for "to see" is ..... A) At/show. B) Scop/scope. C) Tele. D) Phon/phone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) At/show. 25. The root word for "to move" is ..... A) Gram/graph. B) Micro. C) Mob/against/mov. D) Bio. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mob/against/mov. 26. The set of whole numbers and their opposites. A) Reciprocal. B) Integers. C) Mean. D) Proportion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Integers. 27. What root word means "to speak" ? A) Dur. B) Act. C) Fac, fact. D) Dic, dict. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dic, dict. 28. Study of the earth A) Geography. B) Autogeology. C) Geology. D) Autobiography. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Geology. 29. 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. 30. The jury deliberated for three hours before reaching a verdict. What does the root word "jur" mean in "jury?" A) Human. B) Say. C) Law or justice. D) Between, within, or among. 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