This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Morphology > Root Words – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Root Words Quiz 4 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is 1 example of the root word Ethno in a word? A) Ethnobiologist. B) Enter. C) Eucharist. D) Eggplant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethnobiologist. 2. What is the root word in the word, "lonesome?" A) Lonely. B) Some. C) Lone. D) Lonlonesome. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lone. 3. Janet took her daughter to get one of these so her toes would look pretty for the summer. A) Pedicure. B) Milipede. C) Pedestrian. D) Impediment. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pedicure. 4. What it the prefix of the word, unbelievable? A) Un-. B) Be-. C) Believe. D) -able. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Un-. 5. What does the root word Anti-mean? A) Against/opposite. B) Air. C) Star. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Against/opposite. 6. What is the suffix in the word inaudible? A) In. B) Able. C) Aud. D) Ible. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ible. 7. What does the root word De-mean? A) Self. B) Down, away, opposite. C) Life. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Down, away, opposite. 8. A ruler with unlimited power; a person who rules by himself or herself A) Autonomy. B) Autocrat. C) Autobiography. D) Self-confident. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Autocrat. 9. What is the meaning of the root word-log-, -logue-? A) Fear. B) To feel. C) All. D) Words. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Words. 10. The prefix max-like in the word maximum means A) One. B) Greatest. C) Not. D) Half. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Greatest. 11. What is the root word of filled? A) Fill. B) Ed. C) Fil. D) Fills. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fill. 12. Mount St. Helen's suddenly ..... after being dormant for a very long time. A) Interrupted. B) Ruptured. C) Erupted. D) Disrupted. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Erupted. 13. A plan or offer, often formal or in writing, to be considered A) Proposal. B) Depose. C) Imposition. D) Expose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Proposal. 14. What does the prefix "pre" mean in "preview? A) Not. B) After. C) Again. D) Before. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Before. 15. In the mountains, I looked through a ..... to see a beautiful scene. A) Vista. B) Visionary. C) Visualize. D) Cacophony. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vista. 16. Which word means the opposite of "lock" ? A) Unlock. B) Relock. C) Prelock. D) Mislock. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unlock. 17. Adding the prefix "dis" and the suffix "ance" to the root word "disappear" creates A) Disappear. B) Disappearance. C) Appearance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Disappearance. 18. A record of events A) Chronological. B) Chronicle. C) Geothermal. D) Chronograph. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chronicle. 19. What is the meaning of the root word Dic / Dict? A) Water. B) Love. C) Say. D) Sprint. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Say. 20. The suffix-able, like in the word profitable means A) Full of profit. B) Weakness. C) Related by blood. D) Able to make profit. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Able to make profit. 21. What is the prefix in"rewriting" A) Re. B) Rewrite. C) Write. D) Ing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Re. 22. The prefix pre-, like in the word preview means A) Not or away. B) Before. C) More than. D) To do again. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Before. 23. Talent and skills you are born with are ..... A) Natural. B) An issue. C) Innate. D) Instinct. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Innate. 24. The root word suddenly can mean "without warning" or "not expected." Suddenly means that something happens A) Loudly. B) Neatly. C) Slowly. D) Quickly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Quickly. 25. Which word has the same root word as flys? A) Flea. B) Flying. C) Lying. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flying. 26. Which word means an underwater ship? A) Submarine. B) Visible. C) Mariner. D) Cyclone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Submarine. 27. Which word uses dys correctly? A) Dysplasia. B) Dye. C) Dysola. D) Dyi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dysplasia. 28. What does the root word "tele" mean?As in telegraph, telephone, television, telepathy. A) To move quickly. B) To think. C) To speak. D) Far off, distant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Far off, distant. 29. Relating to the natural features, population and industries of a region A) Geothermal. B) Geographic. C) Geologist. D) Geoponics. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Geographic. 30. What is the suffix in unexpected? A) Ed. B) Expected. C) Expect. D) Un. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ed. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesRoot Words Quiz 1Root Words Quiz 2Root Words Quiz 3Root 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