This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Morphology > Roots Affixes – Quiz 23 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Roots Affixes Quiz 23 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the meaning of-ly A) Having characteristics of. B) Characterized by. C) Science of; study of. D) How something is. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) How something is. 2. What is the meaning of the suffix-phobe? A) Someone who fears. B) State, condition. C) Person who studies. D) Place. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Someone who fears. 3. The root ..... means step. A) Form. B) Grad(e). C) Act. D) Medi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grad(e). 4. What root word means "measure" A) Meter. B) Grad, gres. C) Rupt. D) Therm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meter. 5. In the word "credible, " what does the root "cred" mean? A) To hear. B) To write. C) To believe. D) To move. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To believe. 6. Change hungry to its adverb form. A) Hunger. B) Hungrily. C) Hungry. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hungrily. 7. This root means "lead." A) Cap/capt. B) Mand/mend. C) Therm. D) Duc/duct. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Duc/duct. 8. The prefix post-means A) Letter. B) New. C) Before. D) After. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) After. 9. Which of the following is the best definition of the word calligraphy? A) To write in a beautiful, stylish way. B) To take a picture. C) To sing a song. D) To write something down. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To write in a beautiful, stylish way. 10. You see the word "geology" in a science lesson. Using your understanding of Greek roots, reason out its meaning and choose the best definition. A) The study of the earth. B) The study of animals. C) The study of stars. D) The study of plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The study of the earth. 11. Richmond is Virginia's state capital. The word capital has a prefix that means- A) Father. B) Ruler. C) Head. D) Government. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Head. 12. What is the meaning of the affix in the word teacher? A) After. B) Full of. C) State of being. D) One who. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) One who. 13. It is one of the ..... days of the year. A) Funnier. B) Happiest. C) Spies. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Happiest. 14. At the forefront of my mind I have lessons to create and papers to grade. I can't stop thinking about all the things I have to do.What does forefront mean? A) The front of my head. B) The leading place that comes before all others. C) The middle of my mind. D) The good place in my mind. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The leading place that comes before all others. 15. The suffixes-ive, -itive, and-ative mean: A) Inclined/tending toward an action. B) Relating to/characterized by. C) To make/to cause to become. D) Full of/characterized by. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inclined/tending toward an action. 16. The root word loc (as in locomotion, locate) means ..... A) Place. B) To move around. C) Train. D) Your house. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Place. 17. Which word has the root meaning "feel" ? A) Thermometer. B) Resent. C) Amiable. D) Literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Resent. 18. What is a word element that can be ATTACHED TO THE ROOT to form a new word? A) Affix. B) Prefix. C) Root. D) Suffix. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Affix. 19. Think about what the affix "post" means. Which of the following words is not a derivative of the affix "post" ? A) Postscript. B) Postpone. C) Poster. D) Posterior. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poster. 20. Which root/affix means:join A) Kinesis, cinema. B) Ignis. C) Inter. D) Ex-, exo-. E) Junto, junctum. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Junto, junctum. 21. Using your knowledge of roots and affixes, what does unilateral mean? A) No sides at all. B) Possessing or full of one thing. C) Characteristic of one side. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Characteristic of one side. 22. Cam'ron is learning about root words in his language class. His teacher explains that root words (or "roots") are parts of words that have meaning, but usually can't be used by themselves. They are often found in both Greek and Latin words. How are root words usually used? A) Alone. B) Together. C) Apart. D) Above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alone. 23. What is the meaning of the suffix-ity? A) False. B) State of, quality. C) Worthy, capable of. D) Act or process. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) State of, quality. 24. The reporter insisted that the letter he used was authentic. He said that he had shown it to many experts before he used it in his story.When something is authentic, it's ..... A) Genuine, or real. B) Very old. C) Carefully written. D) Full of tasty worms. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Genuine, or real. 25. What is the meaning of the suffix '-logy' in the word 'geology'? A) Science of. B) Earth of. C) Study of. D) Life of. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Study of. 26. What is the meaning of the root 'thes'? A) It means 'write, written'. B) It means 'see, sight'. C) It means 'think, thought'. D) It means 'put, place, set'. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It means 'put, place, set'. 27. What does the prefix 'com-/ con-/ co-' mean? A) With; together. B) New. C) Able to. D) One hundred. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) With; together. 28. Add the correct suffix for the root word 'fortunate' A) Ly. B) Ion. C) Ed. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ly. 29. Grace visits her doctor because she has been experiencing joint pain. The doctor tells her she has arthritis. Based on the suffix-itis in her diagnosis, what does it mean? A) Medicine, cure. B) Bone, structure. C) Inflammation, illness. D) Hospital, clinic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inflammation, illness. 30. In the word 'transport', what does the root 'port' mean? A) To see. B) To build. C) To write. D) To carry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To carry. 31. The affix 'pre-' means A) During. B) After. C) Before. D) Under. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Before. 32. What is the definition of the root-CRED? A) See. B) Mark. C) Do. D) Believe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Believe. 33. Which of the following words means a person who wants to win? A) Bitterness. B) Competitiveness. C) Wilderness. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Competitiveness. 34. What does the root "graph" in the word "biography" mean? A) Write. B) Light. C) Life. D) Far. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Write. 35. Fill in the blank:The ..... actions of the celebrity were often criticized by the media. A) Extravagant. B) Natural. C) Extraordinary. D) Calm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extravagant. 36. What is the root of a word? A) A word or word part to which you can add a suffix. B) A word or a word part that can form the basis of new words by adding prefixes. C) A word or a word part that can form the basis of new words by adding prefixes or suffixes. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A word or a word part that can form the basis of new words by adding prefixes or suffixes. 37. Affixes are ..... A) Prefixes. B) Suffixes. C) Both prefixes and suffixes. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both prefixes and suffixes. 38. Which of the following words uses the root 'bio' to mean life? A) Biography. B) Biweekly. C) Bionic. D) Biology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Biology. 39. Which definition matches "informant" ? A) Someone who studies living organisms. B) A person who gives information. C) Someone who observes. D) The process of giving information to others. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A person who gives information. 40. Synonym for dignity is? A) Stride. B) Option. C) Pride. D) Turth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pride. 41. What is the meaning of the suffix-phobia? A) Fear. B) Life. C) Carry. D) Time. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fear. 42. David walks into a room that hasn't been used for months. He notices there's nothing inside-no furniture, no decorations, just empty space. Based on this, what does the Latin root 'vac' mean? Here are some example words:vacuum, vacate, vacant. A) Move. B) Strong. C) Full. D) Empty. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Empty. 43. Which of the following words contain a root word that means cut? A) Biped. B) Precise. C) Conclude. D) Carnivore. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Precise. 44. Match the root/affix with its meaninganti A) Before. B) Science of or study of. C) Against or opposite. D) Between. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Against or opposite. 45. Is the basic part of a word that gives the word meaning. A) Affix. B) Prefix. C) Root. D) Suffix. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Root. 46. Use the prefix syn-to infer the meaning of synchronized. A) Happening at the same time. B) Acting against each other. C) Occurring in the correct order. D) Looking different from each other. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Happening at the same time. 47. Choose the correct word to fill in the blank:When I found out it was supposed to rain on the day of the outdoor graduation, I was worried that my family would get soaked. Luckily, the rain was only ..... , so no one got very wet. A) Permanent. B) Intermittent. C) Transparent. D) Persistent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Intermittent. 48. Able to be carried from one place to another A) Repairable. B) Imaginable. C) Detachable. D) Portable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Portable. 49. A feeling or showing of love or friendship; strongly felt; having a liking for or love of someone or something A) Maintenance. B) Fondness. C) Consciousness. D) Ambivalence. E) Consequence. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fondness. 50. The suffixes-ic and-ical mean: A) Not. B) Relating to. C) Good. D) Making into. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Relating to. 51. What does audio mean? A) Go. B) Hear. C) Break. D) Break. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hear. 52. The word "precise" means ..... A) To prove, show, find out, or state that something is true or correct. B) Other than the usual. C) Very accurate and exact. D) A portion or section taken from a book, article, etc. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Very accurate and exact. 53. The root 'scrib' means to write. Which word means to write again? A) Inscribe. B) Prescribe. C) Describe. D) Rescribe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rescribe. 54. Which of the following is a synonym of the root 'thes'? A) Those. B) Lose. C) Rose. D) Pose. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pose. 55. The prefix ir-and il-mean A) Not. B) Before. C) After. D) Against. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not. 56. Given the word "microscope, " use your understanding of Greek roots to reason out its meaning and choose the best definition. A) A device for measuring sound. B) A tool for viewing small objects. C) A machine for recording music. D) A type of telescope for stars. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A tool for viewing small objects. 57. Choose the word below that is present tense. A) Bling. B) Rings. C) Hunting. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hunting. 58. Which word has the root meaning "heavy, weighty" ? A) Gravity. B) Amiable. C) Democracy. D) Aeronautics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gravity. 59. Which of the following tools would the commander ofa submarine use to see above the waves? A) A periscope. B) A stethoscope. C) A nightscope. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A periscope. 60. The prefix 'pre-' means before. What does the word 'preview' mean? A) To view again. B) To view before. C) To view after. D) To view during. 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