This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Morphology > Root Words – Quiz 15 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Root Words Quiz 15 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the root word in the word, "healthy?" A) Y. B) Thy. C) Health. D) Healthy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Health. 2. This word means the study of life. A) Biological. B) Biology. C) Progeny. D) Biohazard. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biology. 3. What is the root word for the word stopped? A) Stopp. B) Ed. C) Stoppe. D) Stop. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stop. 4. Which word has the SAME root word as widened? A) Wider. B) Dented. C) Ended. D) Wisely. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wisely. 5. What does the root word inter-mean? A) Wrongly. B) Middle. C) Opposite. D) Between. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Between. 6. What does the root word bene mean? A) Believe. B) Good. C) Time. D) Hear. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Good. 7. What is the root word in the word, "disobeys?" A) Obeys. B) Obey. C) Disobey. D) Dis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Obey. 8. Which is the root word for the word timer? A) Er. B) Tim. C) Time. D) Timer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Time. 9. What is the root word that means "light" ? A) Spec. B) Photo. C) Aut. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Photo. 10. What is the Latin root word for born? A) Natural. B) Sign. C) Nat. D) Cogn. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nat. 11. The root word bi means two. What word has the root word bi in it that means two? A) Blabbing. B) Biology. C) Bicycle. D) Big. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bicycle. 12. Able to provide for the needs of oneself without the help of others; independent A) Autonomy. B) Self-confident. C) Autocrat. D) Self-sufficient. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Self-sufficient. 13. What is the meaning of the root word-audi-? A) Hearing, listening. B) Say. C) Declare. D) To believe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hearing, listening. 14. Which of the following means "against" ? A) Ceed. B) Auto. C) Anti. D) Form. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anti. 15. Which word completes this sentence?The ..... had to navigate the ship into the port. A) Traitor. B) Leader. C) Swimmer. D) Mariner. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mariner. 16. Which word is a synonym for the word "enemy" ? A) Object. B) Antidote. C) Opponent. D) Obstacle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Opponent. 17. The suffix "less" in the word "careless" means A) No care. B) More care. C) Less care. D) Very careful. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Less care. 18. A piece of land that is named and under particular rules could be called this A) Geology. B) Territory. C) Geode. D) Terrace. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Territory. 19. The writing of one's own signature; the signature of oneself A) Autobiography. B) Autocrat. C) Autograph. D) Self-sufficient. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Autograph. 20. Greek root word meaning time A) Chronicle. B) Chron. C) Geography. D) Geo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chron. 21. If-ology means to study, what does microbio logy mean? A) Study of large animals. B) Study of small living organisms. C) Study of living creatures. D) Study of small rocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Study of small living organisms. 22. What word means curse? A) Contrary. B) Credence. C) Malediction. D) Exculpate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Malediction. 23. The art or science of agriculture (cultivating the earth) A) Geoponics. B) Geothermal. C) Chronological. D) Geography. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Geoponics. 24. Name the root word in reread . A) Reread. B) Ad. C) Re. D) Read. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Read. 25. What is the base word in cheerfully? A) Ly. B) Cheer. C) Cheerful. D) Fully. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cheer. 26. What is the meaning of the root word-bene-? A) To draw. B) Well, goodness. C) To write. D) Idea, belief. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Well, goodness. 27. Resistance or dissent, expressed in action or argument A) Apposition. B) Imposition. C) Composition. D) Opposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Opposition. 28. The root brev-like in the word abbreviate means A) Across. B) Short. C) Cause. D) After. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Short. 29. What is the root word of skips? A) Kip. B) Skip. C) Ski. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skip. 30. Which of these words means 'notsure'? A) Dissure. B) Undone. C) Unwilling. D) Uncertain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Uncertain. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesRoot Words Quiz 1Root Words Quiz 2Root Words Quiz 3Root Words Quiz 4Root Words Quiz 5Root Words Quiz 6Root Words Quiz 7Root Words Quiz 8Root Words Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books