This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Morphology > Root Words – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Root Words Quiz 1 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the root word that means "carry" ? A) Photo. B) Port. C) Tempo. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Port. 2. The prefix semi-, like in the word semiprecious means A) Not or away. B) Before. C) One. D) Half. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Half. 3. Feeling good about oneself A) Autocrat. B) Self-sufficient. C) Self-confident. D) Automatic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Self-confident. 4. What does the root word "phon" mean as in microphone?I sang in the microphone. A) Life. B) Sound. C) Light. D) Distance. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sound. 5. The prefix "un " meansex. un do, un tie A) Full of. B) Does not. C) Not. D) Without. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not. 6. A megastar is a bigger version of a star.What does the root word mega mean? A) Brighter. B) Super. C) More colorful. D) Larger. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Larger. 7. A person who fights A) Fighter. B) Fightful. C) Fightly. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fighter. 8. The Latin root pop-like in the word population means A) Soda. B) Art. C) People. D) Body. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) People. 9. The professor's ..... sounded like a robot droning on. A) Monotone. B) Monotonous. C) Solo. D) Unison. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monotone. 10. Which word means to appear again? A) Rewatch. B) Resee. C) Reply. D) Reappear. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reappear. 11. Which word has the same root word as moving? A) Moves. B) Mowing. C) Oven. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Moves. 12. What word means odd? A) Genesis. B) Idiosyncratic. C) Grandiloquent. D) Idiom. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idiosyncratic. 13. Which root word means "to show how things are different from each other" ? A) Contrast. B) Oppress. C) Compare. D) Contradict. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Contrast. 14. Which word means to play again? A) Misplay. B) Preplay. C) Replay. D) Unplay. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Replay. 15. When you pull in your breath, then your stomach will ..... A) Extract. B) Protract. C) Contract. D) Retract. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Contract. 16. What does bio-mean in biology? A) Life. B) Animals. C) The study of. D) Plants. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Life. 17. What does the suffix "ful" mean? As in peaceful, harmful, beautiful, powerful. A) To scare. B) To have. C) To take. D) To hide. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To have. 18. What is the root word in the word "prediction" ? A) Dict. B) Pre. C) Ion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dict. 19. What does the root word ast/astr mean? A) Space. B) Star. C) Life. D) Air. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Star. 20. Which is the root word of completed? A) Complet. B) Complete. C) Ed. D) Co. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Complete. 21. What is the root word of singer? A) Sin. B) Ing. C) Sing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sing. 22. A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera A) Tripod. B) Quadruped. C) Pedestrian. D) Biped. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tripod. 23. What is the root word of loudest? A) Loud. B) Dest. C) Loude. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Loud. 24. An instrument used to measure heat/temperature A) Pedometer. B) Seismometer. C) Thermometer. D) Kilometer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thermometer. 25. Working by itself A) Autocorrect. B) Automatic. C) Automobile. D) A self propelled road vehicle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Automatic. 26. What is the prefix in this word?remarkable A) Re. B) Mark. C) Able. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Re. 27. It is widely thought that every person's fingerprints are ....., but that is not proven. A) Unify. B) Monotone. C) Unique. D) Solo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Unique. 28. What does the word malign mean? A) A person who is always of often unhappy. B) To desire to cause harm to another person. C) To fail to function or work properly. D) To say bad things about someone publicly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To say bad things about someone publicly. 29. To go incognito is to ..... A) To work hard. B) To hide so you are not known. C) Run quickly. D) To show what you know. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To hide so you are not known. 30. The root Mille means thousand and ped, "foot." So what does the word millipede mean? A) A creature with 4 legs. B) A creature with no legs. C) A creature with 2 legs. D) A creature with many legs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A creature with many legs. 31. What is the root word in prewrite? A) Pre. B) Write. C) Wrote. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Write. 32. A book about a person's life written by himself or herself A) Autograph. B) Autonomy. C) Autobiography. D) Self-confident. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Autobiography. 33. Powerful contains which root word? A) Powers. B) Full. C) Wonderful. D) Power. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Power. 34. What is the root that means to place or put? A) Pos. B) Pot. C) Sid. D) Sed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pos. 35. What do the root words grad and gres mean? A) Step. B) Good. C) Write. D) Hear. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Step. 36. To take out of place A) Proposal. B) Deposit. C) Depose. D) Transpose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Depose. 37. Manicure: ..... ::pedicure: ..... A) Hands, feet. B) Over, under. C) Dirty, clean. D) Feet, hands. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hands, feet. 38. To put your needs above someone else's to the point that it's a burden for others A) Imposition. B) Post. C) Juxtapose. D) Deposit. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Imposition. 39. If someone believes that you really do something, she will give you this. A) Accreditation. B) Justice. C) Credential. D) Credit. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Credit. 40. Which root word means 'Empty'? A) Ver. B) Voc/vot. C) Vac. D) Bio. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vac. 41. If 'ver' means true, what does 'verify' mean? A) To be true. B) To make sure something is true. C) Do not lie. D) To tell the truth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To make sure something is true. 42. Hearing, technically known as ....., begins when a sound wave reaches the outer ear. A) Audio-visual. B) Autocracy. C) Audition. D) Audacity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Audition. 43. Which word has the same root word as admiration? A) Admit. B) Administrator. C) Admires. D) Accept. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Admires. 44. Auto is a Greek prefix that means- A) Self. B) Time. C) Carry. D) Measure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Self. 45. What is the prefix in the word inaudible? A) Aud. B) Ible. C) In. D) Able. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In. 46. What is the root word in the word, "freely?" A) Free. B) Ly. C) Freely. D) Y. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Free. 47. If the root word "port" means to carry, what does the word portable mean?My laptop is portable. A) Able to be moved. B) Able to lift. C) Able to read. D) Able to measure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Able to be moved. 48. What does the word patri or pater mean? A) Pattern. B) Baby. C) Paul. D) Father. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Father. 49. Adding the prefix "non" to the root word "magical" creates A) Nonmagical. B) Nomagical. C) Notmagical. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nonmagical. 50. Which word contains a prefix?I misunderstood the lesson because I was playing on my phone. A) Playing. B) Phone. C) Misunderstood. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Misunderstood. 51. The prefix non-, like in the word nonstop means A) After. B) Not. C) Many. D) Across. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not. 52. If preSCRIPtion means 'a written note signed by a doctor which provides instructions for medicine or treatment, what does the root word SCRIP mean? A) Note. B) Write. C) Instructions. D) Medicine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Write. 53. What is the base word in preheating? A) Heat. B) Ing. C) Pre. D) Preheat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heat. 54. If the root word "bio" means life, what does the word biology mean?I took a biology class. A) Study of living organisms. B) Study of math. C) Study of sound. D) Study of the human body. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Study of living organisms. 55. Which word means loud enough to be heard? A) Audible. B) Visible. C) Audience. D) Videocassette. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Audible. 56. ..... sense-doesn't make sense A) Co. B) Over. C) Un. D) Non. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Non. 57. An instrument that makes small objects look larger. A) Microwave. B) Microscope. C) Microchip. D) Microphone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Microscope. 58. The Latin root port like in the word transport means A) Carry. B) Company. C) Water. D) Travel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carry. 59. Which words have the same suffix as slowly? A) Lily and boldly. B) Rudely and quickly. C) Belly and bully. D) Wisely and jelly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rudely and quickly. 60. Which word means a story of a person's life? A) Audible. B) Biology. C) Biography. D) Chronological. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biography. Next →Related QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesRoot Words Quiz 2Root Words Quiz 3Root Words Quiz 4Root Words Quiz 5Root Words Quiz 6Root Words Quiz 7Root Words Quiz 8Root Words Quiz 9Root Words Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books