This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Morphology > Root Words – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Root Words Quiz 7 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. We call it a "submarine" because "sub" means? A) Water. B) Above. C) Ocean. D) Under. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Under. 2. What does the root word photo mean? A) Space. B) Time. C) Light. D) Image. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Light. 3. What does the root word Pod mean? (a) A) A Foot. B) Give. C) Shorten. D) Step. E) Center. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A Foot. 4. The root word for "sound" is ..... A) Scop/scope. B) Phon/phone. C) At/show. D) Ology/ologist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Phon/phone. 5. "port-" in export, import, portable $\rightarrow$ "port-" means A) Place. B) Put. C) Carry. D) Mouth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carry. 6. 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. 7. What is the root word for unbalanced? A) And. B) Balance sheet. C) Ed. D) Balance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Balance. 8. Halloween is a big ..... for my family. We all dress up and walk around the neighborhood together. A) Event. B) Unconventional. C) Intervene. D) Convent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Event. 9. What is the root word for simplify? A) Slim. B) Ple. C) Implfy. D) Simple. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Simple. 10. What does the root word ..... SYN/SYM mean? A) With; together. B) Across; through. C) Study of. D) Star. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) With; together. 11. The word part "dis" means ..... A) Yes. B) Maybe. C) Under. D) Not. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Not. 12. 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. 13. Which word correctly completes the sentence below?Then a ..... storm brought rain and thunder. A) Suddenmost. B) Suddenly. C) Sudden. D) Suddener. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sudden. 14. This root means:to hear A) Ped. B) Aud. C) Bio. D) Cred. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aud. 15. 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) Benevolent. B) Benediction. C) Paragraph. D) Autograph. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Benediction. 16. The Greek word bio means: A) Life. B) Light. C) Time. D) Dead. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Life. 17. What does brev mean? A) Shorten. B) Tightly fixed. C) Give. D) Shape. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shorten. 18. A science that deals with things that are alive, such as plants and animals A) Antibiotic. B) Biography. C) Biohazard. D) Biology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biology. 19. This root word means-time A) Cred. B) Astro. C) Chron. D) Dict. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chron. 20. If the word vacate means "to leave" what does the word vacation mean? A) Time spent doing homework. B) Time spent at home. C) Coming home. D) A trip where people leave home. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A trip where people leave home. 21. The group of supervisors had to make a ..... decision that would not make any of the subgroups of supporters angry. A) Benefactor. B) Benign. C) Bonus. D) Paragraph. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Benign. 22. What is the root word in reaching? A) Reaches. B) Each. C) Aching. D) Reach. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reach. 23. 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. 24. 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. 25. What is the root word for sitting? A) Ing. B) His. C) Sit. D) And. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sit. 26. What does the root word psyche mean? A) Crazy. B) Water. C) Mind/ thought. D) Myth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mind/ thought. 27. Which word correctly completes the sentence below?My teacher says i dance very ..... A) Goodly. B) Well. C) Good. D) Weller. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Well. 28. Light, light, light A) Bird. B) Make. C) Sound. D) Light, shine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Light, shine. 29. Covid 19 was a dangerous ..... that caused people to get sick. A) Flu. B) Adverb. C) Pathogen. D) Cult. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathogen. 30. If someone studies "archaeology, " what are they studying? A) Water. B) Earth's structure. C) Ancient human history. D) Plant life. 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