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 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "port-" in export, import, portable $\rightarrow$ "port-" means A) Carry. B) Put. C) Place. D) Mouth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carry. 2. If we add an "ful" to the end beauty what would the new word be? A) Full of beauty. B) Beautiful. C) Beautiful. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beautiful. 3. What is the root word for unbalanced? A) And. B) Balance sheet. C) Ed. D) Balance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Balance. 4. Halloween is a big ..... for my family. We all dress up and walk around the neighborhood together. A) Convent. B) Unconventional. C) Event. D) Intervene. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Event. 5. What is the root word for simplify? A) Slim. B) Ple. C) Simple. D) Implfy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simple. 6. What does the root word ..... SYN/SYM mean? A) Across; through. B) With; together. C) Star. D) Study of. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) With; together. 7. The word part "dis" means ..... A) Yes. B) Not. C) Under. D) Maybe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not. 8. Think about the root words in "microscope" . What does the word mean? A) A small sound. B) To see/watch something far away. C) The study of life. D) To see/watch small things. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To see/watch small things. 9. Which word correctly completes the sentence below?Then a ..... storm brought rain and thunder. A) Suddener. B) Suddenmost. C) Sudden. D) Suddenly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sudden. 10. This root means:to hear A) Aud. B) Ped. C) Bio. D) Cred. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aud. 11. The leader of the Antarctic exploration gave a ..... that the next leg of their journey would keep all of the participants safe in the worsening conditions. A) Benediction. B) Autograph. C) Benevolent. D) Paragraph. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Benediction. 12. The Greek word bio means: A) Light. B) Dead. C) Life. D) Time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Life. 13. What does brev mean? A) Give. B) Tightly fixed. C) Shorten. D) Shape. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shorten. 14. A science that deals with things that are alive, such as plants and animals A) Biology. B) Biography. C) Antibiotic. D) Biohazard. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biology. 15. This root word means-time A) Chron. B) Astro. C) Dict. D) Cred. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chron. 16. If the word vacate means "to leave" what does the word vacation mean? A) Coming home. B) Time spent doing homework. C) A trip where people leave home. D) Time spent at home. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A trip where people leave home. 17. The group of supervisors had to make a ..... decision that would not make any of the subgroups of supporters angry. A) Bonus. B) Benign. C) Benefactor. D) Paragraph. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Benign. 18. What is the root word in reaching? A) Aching. B) Reach. C) Each. D) Reaches. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reach. 19. The mother tried to pacify the screaming baby with a bottle of warm milk. What does the root word "pac" mean in "pacify?" A) Strong. B) All. C) Peace. D) Shape or form. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peace. 20. The Greek root word "phil, " found in words like philosophy or hydrophile, means ..... A) Love/friendship. B) All. C) See. D) Bright light. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Love/friendship. 21. What is the root word for sitting? A) Ing. B) His. C) Sit. D) And. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sit. 22. What does the root word psyche mean? A) Crazy. B) Mind/ thought. C) Myth. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mind/ thought. 23. Which word correctly completes the sentence below?My teacher says i dance very ..... A) Good. B) Goodly. C) Weller. D) Well. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Well. 24. Light, light, light A) Sound. B) Make. C) Bird. D) Light, shine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Light, shine. 25. Covid 19 was a dangerous ..... that caused people to get sick. A) Pathogen. B) Cult. C) Adverb. D) Flu. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pathogen. 26. If someone studies "archaeology, " what are they studying? A) Earth's structure. B) Plant life. C) Ancient human history. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ancient human history. 27. The root word form means? A) Special. B) To shape. C) To see or smell. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To shape. 28. Which of the following latin roots means to build A) Tract. B) Stru, struct. C) Fleet, flex. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stru, struct. 29. This root word means-Earth or ground A) Chron. B) Cred. C) Dict. D) Geo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Geo. 30. Dict is a Latin greek root that means- A) To Say. B) To Carry. C) To see. D) Written. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To Say. 31. Patrician (noun) A) Person in the high social class. B) Person in low social class. C) Person in no social class. D) Person in middle social class. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Person in the high social class. 32. If we add an "il" to legal what would the meaning be? A) Not legal. B) Legal again. C) Full of being legal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not legal. 33. The word part "anti" means ..... A) Opposite. B) Mean. C) Against. D) For. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Against. 34. Her noncommittal response left me wondering if she would be attending the party or not. What does the root word "non" mean in "noncommittal?" A) Same. B) Different. C) With or together. D) Not. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Not. 35. What does the word headphones mean? A) A device you put on your eyes that lets you see things more clearly. B) A device you put on your head to keep it protected when you ride a bicycle. C) A device you put on your ears that lets you listen to sounds or music. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A device you put on your ears that lets you listen to sounds or music. 36. What does the root phono mean A) Look. B) Sound. C) Light. D) Stars. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sound. 37. Which of the following latin roots means to send? A) With. B) Aud. C) Ject. D) Port. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) With. 38. Which word as the SAME root word as brushed? A) Boating. B) Brushing. C) Rushed. D) Rushing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brushing. 39. When I read a story I like to ..... what the characters look like. A) Visionary. B) Visualize. C) Audience. D) Vista. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Visualize. 40. What is the root word for brushes? A) Brush. B) Rushing. C) Rush. D) Brushing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brush. 41. A person who studies rocks and soil in order to learn the history of the Earth is a A) Chemist. B) Geologist. C) Physicist. D) Biologist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geologist. 42. -Logos means ..... A) Land/Earth. B) Brand. C) Independent/Self. D) Word/Steady. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Word/Steady. 43. Generation (noun) A) Group of people living in different times. B) Group of people living in the same time. C) Group of different aged people. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Group of people living in the same time. 44. What is the root word for talking? A) Talked. B) Take. C) Talk. D) Taking. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Talk. 45. If a bicycle is a cycle with two wheels, what is a tricycle? A) A cycle with three wheels. B) A cycle with four wheels. C) A cycle with two wheels. D) A cycle with one wheel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A cycle with two wheels. 46. Phil means ..... A) Love. B) Earth. C) Star. D) Shape. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Love. 47. The submarine can dive up to 300 meters below water. What does the prefix sub mean? A) Under, below. B) Above. C) After. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Under, below. 48. What does the Greek root "jur or jud" mean? Example:jury, judicial A) To hear. B) Relating to the law. C) To pull or draw. D) To believe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Relating to the law. 49. Our dog was ..... since he had two of his paws bandaged due to a skin condition, so we had to carry him. A) Immobile. B) Benign. C) Emotion. D) Bounteous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Immobile. 50. The ..... laughed at Will Ferrell's jokes. A) Audition. B) Audience. C) Audible. D) Auditorium. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Audience. 51. Find a word with the same root word:friendly. A) Happily. B) Smile. C) Friends. D) Shyly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Friends. 52. The distance a number is away from zero. A) Term. B) Proportion. C) Absolute value. D) Reciprocal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Absolute value. 53. Define the Root Word "BIO" A) Death. B) Bad, evil. C) Life. D) Science. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Life. 54. A ..... would never agree to have dinner at a Wendy's or any other fast food restaurant. A) Benediction. B) Bona fide. C) Cardiogram. D) Well living. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Well living. 55. A timeline is arranged in ..... order. A) Chronic. B) Chronological. C) Synchronized. D) Alphabetical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chronological. 56. Genetic (adjective)? A) Related to age. B) Related to genes. C) Related to names. D) Related to family. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Related to genes. 57. Given this word family, what do you think the root mega means?MegaphoneMegalopolisMegabyte A) Big. B) Whole. C) Two. D) Over. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Big. 58. Please place these key events from the Revolutionary War in chronological order. What does the root word "chron" mean in "chronological?" A) Say. B) Between, within, or among. C) Time. D) Human. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Time. 59. Which of these lets you hear things louder? A) Megaphone. B) Biography. C) Chronograph. D) Aerobics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Megaphone. 60. Which of these involves water? A) Aquarium. B) Chronograph. C) Geode. D) Aeroplane. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aquarium. ← 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 8Prefixes And Suffixes Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books