This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Morphology > Root Words – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Root Words Quiz 16 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the suffix in uncomfortable? A) Comfort. B) Fort. C) Able. D) Un. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Able. 2. The root word blurry can mean "dim" or "hard to see." The blurry tree would be ..... ? A) Very tall. B) Not clear. C) Very green. D) Not bloomed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not clear. 3. What is the root word in the word, "lovely?" A) Ly. B) Love. C) Y. D) Lovely. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Love. 4. What word means to change into a human? A) Amorous. B) Bellatrix. C) Antediluvian. D) Anthropomorphize. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anthropomorphize. 5. What is the root word in the word OVERBORROWING? A) Borrow. B) Overborrowing. C) Over. D) Borrowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Borrow. 6. What is the definition of the root-dict-? A) To do. B) To say. C) An aquatic animal. D) A type of tape. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To say. 7. Gerald looked through the peek hole in his front door and saw one of these holding a box of candy. A) Peddler. B) Milipede. C) Quadruped. D) Pedestrian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pedestrian. 8. A person who walks across the street on foot A) Quadruped. B) Biped. C) Peddler. D) Pedestrian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pedestrian. 9. If 'chromatic' means color, what does monochromatic mean? A) Coloring a paper. B) Having multiple colors. C) Having no color. D) Having only one color. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Having only one color. 10. What does the root word "psycho" mean? A) All. B) Feel. C) Mind. D) Choice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mind. 11. Which word means "to use power against someone in a cruel or unjust way" ? A) Obstacle. B) Opponent. C) Object. D) Oppress. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oppress. 12. What does the prefix "dec" or "deca" mean?As in decade, decimal, decagon. A) Ten. B) Four. C) Two. D) Eight. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ten. 13. What do the root words en-, and em-mean? A) Cause to. B) Between. C) Not. D) Before. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cause to. 14. What is the base word in disrespectful? A) Disrespect. B) Dis. C) Ful. D) Respect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Respect. 15. What does the root word carn-mean? A) Cut. B) Know. C) Flesh. D) Together. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flesh. 16. In the word, fearless, what does the suffix-less mean? A) Happy. B) Without. C) More than one. D) Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Without. 17. What is the root in the word evidence? A) Evi. B) Nce. C) Den. D) Vid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vid. 18. What does the ast/astr root word mean? A) Star. B) Moon. C) Universe. D) Sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Star. 19. Root word that means sound A) Phon. B) Vid. C) Aud. D) Vis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phon. 20. What does the root word "chron" mean?As in chronicle, chronological, chronic. A) People. B) Self. C) Time. D) Color. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Time. 21. Which suffix means past? A) -ed. B) -able. C) -ful. D) -less. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) -ed. 22. This type of art is usually so unique that only the artist really knows what she painted.A) attractive B) distracting C) abstract D) contract A) Distracting. B) Abstract. C) Contract. D) Attractive. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abstract. 23. The root word vid means to see. What word does not have the root word vid in it? A) Video. B) Evidence. C) Individual. D) Videotape. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Individual. 24. Which term means "being against society or unfriendly" ? A) Opponent. B) Antisocial. C) Contradict. D) Antidote. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antisocial. 25. What is the meaning of the root word-auto-? A) Book. B) Self. C) Time. D) Car. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Self. 26. A dictionary shows you the meaning of words.What does the root word dic mean? A) Find. B) Say or tell. C) Know. D) Write. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Say or tell. 27. What does the root word cycl-mean? A) Circle. B) Life. C) Write. D) Self. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Circle. 28. What is the meaning of " Therm" ? A) Five. B) Bad, wrong, badly. wrongly. C) Fire. D) Heat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Heat. 29. Which word contains a root word that means 'nature' or having a body or a form? A) Drainage. B) Physical. C) Fertilize. D) Solitary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Physical. 30. What is the root word of unaware? A) Unawa. B) Are. C) Aware. D) Unaware. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aware. ← 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