This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Morphology > Root Words – Quiz 5 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Root Words Quiz 5 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The word uncover has the root word cover. What does the word uncover mean? A) Make known. B) Hide. C) Protect. D) Keep a secret. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Make known. 2. What is the root word for prediction? A) Predict. B) Diction. C) Pred. D) Predi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Predict. 3. What does the prefix "re" mean?As in return, recall, regain, remarry, rewrite. A) After. B) Again. C) Later. D) Before. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Again. 4. Which word means the study of living things? A) Mariner. B) Biology. C) Science. D) Biography. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biology. 5. What is the root word of helped? A) Help. B) Lep. C) Helpe. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Help. 6. The suffix-ship like in the word leadership means A) State of being. B) That can be. C) Full of. D) A condition of being. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A condition of being. 7. What is the meaning of the root word-ast(er)-? A) Lead. B) Star. C) Move. D) Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Star. 8. The root in this word tells you this is a writer: A) Optometrist. B) Scribe. C) Novice. D) Egocentric. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scribe. 9. What is the root word for the word reopen? A) Re. B) Pen. C) Open. D) Reo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Open. 10. What is the suffix in the word fixable? A) Le. B) Fix. C) Able. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Able. 11. A noun meaning unpleasant noise; harsh sounds A) Cacophony. B) Visualize. C) Auditorium. D) Audible. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cacophony. 12. What is the root word in the word, "countless?" A) Countless. B) Count. C) Less. D) Number. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Count. 13. The prefix san-, like in the word sanitizer means A) Health. B) Half of. C) Not or away. D) Before. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Health. 14. The prefix ord-, like in the word ordinal means A) Before. B) One. C) Rank. D) Not or away. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rank. 15. If it is in the area it is ..... A) Local. B) Nation. C) Locality. D) National. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Local. 16. What does-less mean in the word careless? A) Again. B) Without. C) Full of. D) With. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Without. 17. What are the base word and the suffix for the word REMARKABLE? A) Remarke and-able. B) Remark and-able. C) Remarka and-ble. D) Remarkab and-le. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Remark and-able. 18. Which word has the SAME root word as customary? A) Accustomed. B) Marry. C) Custard. D) Costume. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Accustomed. 19. To display for everyone to see A) Proposal. B) Juxtapose. C) Post. D) Compose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Post. 20. What does the word "contradict" mean? A) To speak up against something. B) Something that is in the way. C) To say or do the opposite of what someone else has said. D) A remedy that acts against poison. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To say or do the opposite of what someone else has said. 21. What does the root word "chron" mean as in the word chronological?The assignment was to retell the story in chronological order. A) Love. B) Time. C) Six. D) Middle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Time. 22. What does the suffix "bio" mean?As in biology, biography, biodiversity, biome, bionic. A) Related to light. B) Related to waste. C) Related to life. D) Related to strength. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Related to life. 23. It is difficult to take good photographs in a dark room. Good photographs require a room that is bright. A) An image made using light sensitive material. B) A drawing. C) A statue. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An image made using light sensitive material. 24. What does the root word ig-mean? A) Do, act. B) Born, produced. C) Write. D) Image, likeness, shape. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Do, act. 25. To put money into an account A) Imposition. B) Deposit. C) Depose. D) Proposal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deposit. 26. What does the root word "form" mean as in the word deformed?The fruit was deformed, meaning it did not look the way it should. A) Shape. B) Good. C) Write. D) Heat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shape. 27. What do the root words in-, im-mean? A) Between. B) Before. C) In. D) Wrongly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In. 28. What is the root word in disappear? A) Dis. B) Appear. C) Pear. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appear. 29. The root which means large is A) Macro. B) Gen. C) Micro. D) Grad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Macro. 30. A person (noun) with original ideas about what the future will or could be like. A) Audition. B) Visualize. C) Cacophony. D) Visionary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Visionary. 31. What does the root word "mono" mean? A) Water. B) One. C) Many. D) Fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) One. 32. Self-regulated; operated by itself A) Automobile. B) Autonomy. C) Automatic. D) Autobiography. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Automatic. 33. The suffix-ous like in the word joyous means A) Condition of joy. B) Being joy. C) Full of joy. D) Without joy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Full of joy. 34. This words means someone's life story written by someone else. A) Biography. B) Progeny. C) Autobiography. D) Maternal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biography. 35. What is the root word for specialty? A) Pecialt. B) Special. C) Specia. D) Cialty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Special. 36. TELEPHONETELEPORTWhat is the shared root word in these words? A) Tel. B) Tele. C) Ele. D) Lep. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tele. 37. What does the root word "graph" mean as in the word paragraph?I wrote a 5 paragraph essay about captivity. A) Write. B) Sound. C) Good. D) Bad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Write. 38. What root word means "written" ? A) Port. B) Graph. C) Dict. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Graph. 39. A speech that seems to go on forever is A) Abstracted. B) Contracted. C) Retraction. D) Protracted. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Protracted. 40. What is the root word of called? A) Ed. B) All. C) Call. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Call. 41. The prefix phil-, like in the word philosopher means A) One. B) Before. C) Half. D) Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Love. 42. Adding the suffix "ly" to the root word "near" creates- A) Nearby. B) Nearly. C) Nearing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nearly. 43. The Latin root word art, artistic means A) Body. B) Art. C) People. D) Music. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Art. 44. A person who goes from door to door on foot trying to sell a product A) Quadruped. B) Pedicure. C) Pedestrian. D) Peddler. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Peddler. 45. Though the soccer team was losing in the first half, they were able to ..... and win the game. A) Persevere. B) Deviate. C) Determination. D) Tradition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Persevere. 46. What does aqua-mean in the word aquarium? A) Water. B) Land. C) Blue. D) Bright. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Water. 47. The root word of 'Mismanagement' is ..... A) Management. B) Manage. C) Mis. D) Mismanage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Manage. 48. What is the meaning of the root word-claim-, -clam-? A) Eath. B) To write. C) Declare. D) Move. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Declare. 49. The root word of 'undo' is ..... A) Un. B) Do. C) Undo. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Do. 50. The child created an ..... course in her living room by using the furniture and couch cushions. A) Oppress. B) Obstacle. C) Opponent. D) Object. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Obstacle. 51. Something that stands in one's way; an obstacle A) Peddler. B) Millipede. C) Pedal. D) Impediment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Impediment. 52. What is the meaning of " Tele" ? A) Mind. B) Distance. C) Sound. D) Five. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Distance. 53. The suffix-rupt like in the word disrupt means A) State of being. B) Full of. C) Break. D) That can be. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Break. 54. An instrument used to measure the amount of energy generated by an earthquake A) Seismometer. B) Thermometer. C) Kilometer. D) Pedometer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Seismometer. 55. What does the root word "ology" mean as in the word biology?I took a biology class in high school. A) One. B) Light. C) The study of. D) To hear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The study of. 56. Device that cooks food with a very short electromagnetic wave. A) Microchip. B) Microorganism. C) Microwave. D) Microscope. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Microwave. 57. What does the suffix mean in the underlined word:She was the grumpiest baby. A) The most grumpy baby. B) A little grumpy. C) Not grumpy at all. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The most grumpy baby. 58. A geologist studies things like rocks, minerals, earthquakes, landslides, and floods.What does the root word geo mean? A) Sea. B) Ground. C) Earth. D) Dirt. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Earth. 59. What root word means "distance" ? A) Port. B) Tele. C) Photo. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tele. 60. The chorus sang their lines in ..... so that their voices blended. A) Unison. B) Unique. C) Solo. D) Monotone. 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