This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Morphology > Root Words – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Root Words Quiz 7 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. We organized weekly gatherings in an effort to ..... thecontentious community. A) Unison. B) Solo. C) Monotone. D) Unify. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Unify. 2. The newspaper printed the ....., since the information in yesterday's paper was actuallynot correct A) Extract. B) Tractor. C) Protract. D) Retraction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Retraction. 3. One that walks on two feet A) Bifoot. B) Tripod. C) Biped. D) Double footed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biped. 4. To know something when you see it A) Recognizable. B) Natural. C) Recognize. D) Dislocate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Recognize. 5. What is the meaning of the root word-luc-, -lum-? A) First. B) To be a leader. C) Shine, light. D) Lucky. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shine, light. 6. The Latin root aqua, like in the word aqueduct means A) Water. B) Body. C) People. D) Green. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Water. 7. Which word means a mixture of various unpleasant sounds; harsh sounds? A) Cacophony. B) Xylophone. C) Phonograph. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cacophony. 8. Which is the root word for the word reddish? A) Red. B) Redd. C) Dish. D) Ish. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Red. 9. What is the definition of the root word circum A) Throw. B) Against. C) Around. D) To make. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Around. 10. A foot treatment that could include soaking the feet and polishing the toenails A) Peddler. B) Tripod. C) Quadruped. D) Pedicure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pedicure. 11. What kind of ..... drawing is that? I can't tell if it's a banana or a horse! A) Contract. B) Abstract. C) Protract. D) Retraction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abstract. 12. What does the root word "logy" mean? A) The study of. B) See. C) Taste. D) Hear. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The study of. 13. The root word of 'disorganize' is ..... A) Organ. B) Disorgan. C) Dis. D) Organize. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Organize. 14. Which word has the same base word as misread? A) Reread. B) Red. C) Ready. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reread. 15. The suffix-hood like in the word brotherhood means A) State of being brothers. B) Able to be brothers. C) Can be like a brother. D) Full of brothers. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) State of being brothers. 16. Which word is an antonym for the word "antidote" ? A) Antibiotic. B) Poison. C) Remedy. D) Cure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poison. 17. What is the root word of thinking? A) Think. B) Thinking. C) Thinks. D) Ing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Think. 18. This word means something is capable of being easily carried. A) Porter. B) Portfolio. C) Portage. D) Portable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Portable. 19. In order to get energy, plants need sunlight for photosynthesis. A) A process where plants use sunlight to make food. B) The flowers on a plant. C) A large plant with many leaves. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A process where plants use sunlight to make food. 20. What does the root word-POS-mean? A) To look. B) To move. C) To put or to place. D) To believe or to trust. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To put or to place. 21. Tom and Jerry disagreed on what TV show to watch. That means they- A) Stopped agreeing. B) Did agree. C) Agreed again. D) Did not agree. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Did not agree. 22. What are you if you were in danger of disease of illness but you came out of it healthy and even more alive A) Vital. B) Survivor. C) Biopsy. D) Antibiotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Survivor. 23. Tommy seemed fearless as he walked to the front of the class.What is the meaning of the word fearless? A) Without fear. B) With fear. C) Full of fear. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Without fear. 24. A scientist who studies the earth A) Geography. B) Geographic. C) Geoponics. D) Geologist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Geologist. 25. What is the suffix in the word, "lonesome?" A) Lonely. B) Lonlonesome. C) Some. D) Lone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Some. 26. A noun that is part of a theater, concert hall, or other public building in which the audience sits A) Audible. B) Auditorium. C) Cacophony. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Auditorium. 27. What is the root word in the word, "treatable?" A) Treatable. B) Able. C) Cure. D) Treat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Treat. 28. Which of the following root words mean 'speak'? A) Man, manu. B) Dict. C) Pod/ped. D) Spec. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dict. 29. The prefix morph-like in the word metamorphosis means A) Full of profit. B) Weakness. C) Shape. D) Related by blood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shape. 30. 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. 31. What is the meaning of the root word-dox-? A) Shine, light. B) Idea, belief. C) To speak. D) Free. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Idea, belief. 32. Someone who farms A) Farmer. B) Farmful. C) Farmly. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Farmer. 33. 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. 34. What does the root word Aqu/Aqua mean? A) Star. B) Life. C) Air. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Water. 35. What is the meaning of the word-anthro-? A) Star. B) A bug. C) Man, human. D) Time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Man, human. 36. What does the root word phon mean? A) Sound. B) Listen. C) Distance. D) Talk. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sound. 37. The prefix multi-like in the word multicolor means A) Across. B) Many. C) After. D) Cause. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Many. 38. Look at the following words and use your context clues to identify what the prefix "re " means. Redo, retry, retouch, and retake. A) Do again. B) Enjoy. C) Ignore. D) Recycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Do again. 39. What is the base word in"rewriting" A) Re. B) Write. C) Rewrite. D) Ing. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Write. 40. 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. 41. What is the meaning of the root word-biblio-? A) Book. B) Declare. C) Opposite. D) Library. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Book. 42. 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. 43. The prefix uni-, like in the word unicycle means A) Before. B) Half of. C) Not or away. D) One. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) One. 44. 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. 45. 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. 46. What does the root word "sens" mean? A) Earth. B) Straight. C) To feel. D) Mind. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To feel. 47. Cargo ships and giant trucks are often used to do this to products from one place to another. A) Import. B) Emit. C) Transport. D) Admit. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transport. 48. What does the root word "photo" mean as in photograph? A) Light. B) Water. C) Life. D) Flesh. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Light. 49. 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. 50. What does pre-war mean? . A) During the war. B) After the war. C) Before the war. D) There is no war. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Before the war. 51. What does the root word "ortho" mean? A) Straight. B) Earth. C) Star. D) Many. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Straight. 52. The suffix-ty like in the word royalty means A) Something that is able to be royal. B) The condition of being royal. C) Full of royal. D) The state of being royal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The condition of being royal. 53. What is the root word in the word, "healthy?" A) Y. B) Thy. C) Healthy. D) Health. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Health. 54. This word means the study of life. A) Biohazard. B) Progeny. C) Biology. D) Biological. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biology. 55. What is the root word for the word stopped? A) Stoppe. B) Ed. C) Stopp. D) Stop. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stop. 56. Which word has the SAME root word as widened? A) Wisely. B) Wider. C) Dented. D) Ended. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wisely. 57. What does the root word inter-mean? A) Opposite. B) Between. C) Wrongly. D) Middle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Between. 58. What does the root word bene mean? A) Good. B) Hear. C) Time. D) Believe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Good. 59. What is the root word in the word, "disobeys?" A) Obey. B) Dis. C) Disobey. D) Obeys. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Obey. 60. Which is the root word for the word timer? A) Timer. B) Tim. C) Time. D) Er. 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