This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Morphology > Root Words – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Root Words Quiz 4 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the root word of swims? A) Swims. B) Swimming. C) Swim. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Swim. 2. What does the root word chron mean? A) Color. B) Space. C) Thought. D) Time. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Time. 3. The suffix "y" means ..... A) Without. B) All the time. C) Voice. D) Characterized by/having. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Characterized by/having. 4. What does the Greek root "anti" mean? A) Against. B) Life. C) Before. D) Sound. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Against. 5. The root word DICT means ..... A) Water. B) Three. C) To look/see. D) To speak/say. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To speak/say. 6. Find the SYNONYM for monologue A) Chat. B) Speech. C) Boring. D) Dialogue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Speech. 7. 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. 8. 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. 9. "micro" means ..... A) Sound. B) Far. C) Small. D) Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Small. 10. What does the root word mar mean? A) Hot. B) Dirt. C) Water. D) Sea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sea. 11. What does "Pulmon" refer to A) Veins. B) Stomach. C) Sugar. D) Lungs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lungs. 12. What is the root word for cheerful? A) Eerful. B) Ful. C) Eer. D) Cheer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cheer. 13. Which word correctly completes the sentence below?This is a ..... street corner. A) Dangerous. B) Dangerously. C) Dangerly. D) Danger. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dangerous. 14. The Latin root spec means- A) Time. B) See or Look. C) Measure. D) Light. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) See or Look. 15. "vid/vis" means ..... A) Small. B) See/watch. C) To see. D) Writing/drawing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To see. 16. What does the Latin root "script" mean? A) Sound. B) To write. C) Life. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To write. 17. Graph is a Greek root that means- A) Same, with, together. B) Measure. C) Say. D) Write. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Write. 18. Choreo ..... ( Greek root meaning "write" or "draw") A) With. B) Tempo. C) Graph. D) Port. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Graph. 19. What physical feature did Jonas and Gabriel have in common? A) Black hair. B) Freckles. C) Pale eyes. D) Pug nose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pale eyes. 20. PATHOLOGY is the study of ..... A) Minerals. B) Happiness. C) Ideas. D) Disease. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Disease. 21. "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. 22. This root word mean time A) Chronicle. B) Chron. C) Telegraph. D) Chronology. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chron. 23. 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. 24. Which of these words contains the Greek root "phon" ? A) Antibiotic. B) Manuscript. C) Telephone. D) Biography. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Telephone. 25. The root word GRAPH means ..... A) To speak/say. B) To write. C) Water. D) Look/see. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To write. 26. 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. 27. What does the root word ..... AST mean? A) Found. B) Path. C) Study of. D) Star. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Star. 28. What does "carci" refer to A) Acid. B) Disease. C) Cancer. D) Bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cancer. 29. What does fer mean? A) Shorten. B) Heart. C) Carry. D) High. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carry. 30. What does the root word pyro mean? A) Fire. B) Wind. C) Earth. D) Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fire. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesRoot Words Quiz 1Root Words Quiz 2Root Words Quiz 3Root Words Quiz 5Root Words Quiz 6Root Words Quiz 7Root Words Quiz 8Root Words Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books