This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Morphology > Root Words – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Root Words Quiz 14 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the suffix in the word, "lonesome?" A) Lonlonesome. B) Lonely. C) Lone. D) Some. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Some. 2. A noun that is part of a theater, concert hall, or other public building in which the audience sits A) Audience. B) Auditorium. C) Cacophony. D) Audible. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Auditorium. 3. What is the root word in the word, "treatable?" A) Treatable. B) Treat. C) Able. D) Cure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Treat. 4. Which of the following root words mean 'speak'? A) Spec. B) Pod/ped. C) Dict. D) Man, manu. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dict. 5. The prefix morph-like in the word metamorphosis means A) Related by blood. B) Full of profit. C) Shape. D) Weakness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shape. 6. What does the word reread mean?She reread the sentence because she didn't understand it. A) Not understand. B) Read again. C) Not read. D) Read fast. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Read again. 7. What is the meaning of the root word-dox-? A) Free. B) To speak. C) Shine, light. D) Idea, belief. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Idea, belief. 8. Someone who farms A) Farmer. B) Farmful. C) Farmly. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Farmer. 9. Which words use the prefix mis in the same way as mistake? A) Misused and misplace. B) Mist and misspell. C) Misthink and miss. D) Missy and misplace. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Misused and misplace. 10. What does the root word Aqu/Aqua mean? A) Life. B) Water. C) Star. D) Air. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Water. 11. What is the meaning of the word-anthro-? A) Man, human. B) Time. C) Star. D) A bug. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Man, human. 12. What does the root word phon mean? A) Talk. B) Sound. C) Distance. D) Listen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sound. 13. The prefix multi-like in the word multicolor means A) Many. B) Across. C) After. D) Cause. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Many. 14. Look at the following words and use your context clues to identify what the prefix "re " means. Redo, retry, retouch, and retake. A) Enjoy. B) Do again. C) Ignore. D) Recycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Do again. 15. What is the base word in"rewriting" A) Re. B) Write. C) Ing. D) Rewrite. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Write. 16. Extract can be defined as: A) Friction between a body and a surface. B) Draw attention away from something. C) Calculate the difference between two numbers. D) To remove with force or effort. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To remove with force or effort. 17. What is the meaning of the root word-biblio-? A) Library. B) Declare. C) Book. D) Opposite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Book. 18. What is a word that can exist without a prefix or a suffix? A) Prefix. B) Suffix. C) Root Word. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Root Word. 19. The prefix uni-, like in the word unicycle means A) One. B) Not or away. C) Half of. D) Before. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One. 20. What is the root word of kindness? A) Ness. B) Kinder. C) Kindness. D) Kind. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kind. 21. The pedestrians walked quickly down the street. A) People who are skateboarding. B) People who are walking. C) People riding bikes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) People who are walking. 22. What is the meaning of the prefix in the underlined word:I can't wait to unwrap my Christmas present! A) Not wrap. B) Wrap. C) Hide. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Not wrap. 23. What does the root word "sens" mean? A) To feel. B) Earth. C) Mind. D) Straight. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To feel. 24. A noun meaning a group of people who have listen to a performance A) Audience. B) Vista. C) Audible. D) Cacophony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Audience. 25. Cargo ships and giant trucks are often used to do this to products from one place to another. A) Admit. B) Import. C) Transport. D) Emit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transport. 26. What does the root word "photo" mean as in photograph? A) Life. B) Flesh. C) Light. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Light. 27. What does the root word "derm" mean?As in dermatitis, dermatology, hypodermic, taxidermy. A) Ten. B) Skin. C) Foot. D) Hand. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skin. 28. What does pre-war mean? . A) During the war. B) Before the war. C) There is no war. D) After the war. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Before the war. 29. What does the root word "ortho" mean? A) Star. B) Many. C) Earth. D) Straight. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Straight. 30. The suffix-ty like in the word royalty means A) The state of being royal. B) Full of royal. C) Something that is able to be royal. D) The condition of being royal. 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