This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Morphology > Root Words – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Root Words Quiz 8 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the root word that means "light" ? A) Spec. B) Photo. C) Aut. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Photo. 2. What is the Latin root word for born? A) Sign. B) Nat. C) Cogn. D) Natural. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nat. 3. The root word bi means two. What word has the root word bi in it that means two? A) Biology. B) Big. C) Bicycle. D) Blabbing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bicycle. 4. Able to provide for the needs of oneself without the help of others; independent A) Self-sufficient. B) Autonomy. C) Self-confident. D) Autocrat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Self-sufficient. 5. What is the meaning of the root word-audi-? A) To believe. B) Hearing, listening. C) Declare. D) Say. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hearing, listening. 6. Which of the following means "against" ? A) Auto. B) Ceed. C) Form. D) Anti. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anti. 7. Which word completes this sentence?The ..... had to navigate the ship into the port. A) Leader. B) Traitor. C) Mariner. D) Swimmer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mariner. 8. Which word is a synonym for the word "enemy" ? A) Opponent. B) Antidote. C) Object. D) Obstacle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Opponent. 9. The suffix "less" in the word "careless" means A) No care. B) Less care. C) More care. D) Very careful. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Less care. 10. 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. 11. The writing of one's own signature; the signature of oneself A) Autocrat. B) Autobiography. C) Autograph. D) Self-sufficient. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Autograph. 12. Greek root word meaning time A) Chronicle. B) Geo. C) Geography. D) Chron. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chron. 13. 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. 14. What word means curse? A) Credence. B) Exculpate. C) Contrary. D) Malediction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Malediction. 15. The art or science of agriculture (cultivating the earth) A) Chronological. B) Geography. C) Geothermal. D) Geoponics. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Geoponics. 16. Name the root word in reread . A) Reread. B) Re. C) Read. D) Ad. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Read. 17. What is the base word in cheerfully? A) Fully. B) Cheer. C) Cheerful. D) Ly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cheer. 18. Resistance or dissent, expressed in action or argument A) Apposition. B) Opposition. C) Composition. D) Imposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Opposition. 19. The root brev-like in the word abbreviate means A) After. B) Short. C) Across. D) Cause. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Short. 20. What is the root word of skips? A) Kip. B) Skip. C) Ski. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skip. 21. Which of these words means 'notsure'? A) Dissure. B) Undone. C) Uncertain. D) Unwilling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Uncertain. 22. What is the suffix in uncomfortable? A) Able. B) Comfort. C) Fort. D) Un. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Able. 23. 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. 24. What is the root word in the word, "lovely?" A) Love. B) Y. C) Lovely. D) Ly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Love. 25. What word means to change into a human? A) Antediluvian. B) Bellatrix. C) Anthropomorphize. D) Amorous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anthropomorphize. 26. What is the root word in the word OVERBORROWING? A) Overborrowing. B) Over. C) Borrow. D) Borrowing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Borrow. 27. What is the definition of the root-dict-? A) A type of tape. B) To do. C) To say. D) An aquatic animal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To say. 28. Gerald looked through the peek hole in his front door and saw one of these holding a box of candy. A) Milipede. B) Pedestrian. C) Peddler. D) Quadruped. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pedestrian. 29. A person who walks across the street on foot A) Quadruped. B) Pedestrian. C) Biped. D) Peddler. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pedestrian. 30. If 'chromatic' means color, what does monochromatic mean? A) Having no color. B) Coloring a paper. C) Having only one color. D) Having multiple colors. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Having only one color. 31. What does the root word "psycho" mean? A) All. B) Feel. C) Mind. D) Choice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mind. 32. Which word means "to use power against someone in a cruel or unjust way" ? A) Object. B) Oppress. C) Opponent. D) Obstacle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oppress. 33. What does the prefix "dec" or "deca" mean?As in decade, decimal, decagon. A) Two. B) Eight. C) Ten. D) Four. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ten. 34. What do the root words en-, and em-mean? A) Cause to. B) Between. C) Before. D) Not. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cause to. 35. What is the base word in disrespectful? A) Ful. B) Respect. C) Dis. D) Disrespect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Respect. 36. What does the root word carn-mean? A) Cut. B) Together. C) Flesh. D) Know. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flesh. 37. In the word, fearless, what does the suffix-less mean? A) Without. B) Happy. C) More than one. D) Action. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Without. 38. What is the root in the word evidence? A) Nce. B) Den. C) Vid. D) Evi. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vid. 39. What does the ast/astr root word mean? A) Universe. B) Star. C) Sun. D) Moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Star. 40. Root word that means sound A) Aud. B) Phon. C) Vid. D) Vis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Phon. 41. What does the root word "chron" mean?As in chronicle, chronological, chronic. A) Self. B) Time. C) Color. D) People. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Time. 42. Which suffix means past? A) -able. B) -ed. C) -less. D) -ful. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) -ed. 43. 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) Attractive. B) Abstract. C) Contract. D) Distracting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abstract. 44. The root word vid means to see. What word does not have the root word vid in it? A) Videotape. B) Evidence. C) Video. D) Individual. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Individual. 45. Which term means "being against society or unfriendly" ? A) Antidote. B) Contradict. C) Antisocial. D) Opponent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antisocial. 46. What is the meaning of the root word-auto-? A) Self. B) Book. C) Car. D) Time. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Self. 47. A dictionary shows you the meaning of words.What does the root word dic mean? A) Write. B) Say or tell. C) Know. D) Find. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Say or tell. 48. What does the root word cycl-mean? A) Life. B) Self. C) Write. D) Circle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Circle. 49. What is the meaning of " Therm" ? A) Five. B) Fire. C) Bad, wrong, badly. wrongly. D) Heat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Heat. 50. Which word contains a root word that means 'nature' or having a body or a form? A) Solitary. B) Fertilize. C) Physical. D) Drainage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Physical. 51. What is the root word of unaware? A) Aware. B) Unawa. C) Unaware. D) Are. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aware. 52. What are prefixes? A) A group of letters at the beginning of words. B) A group of letters in the middle of words. C) A group of letters at the end of words. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A group of letters at the beginning of words. 53. They are installing ..... panels on their home to generate electricity from the sun. A) Unison. B) Solar. C) Solitude. D) Unicorn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Solar. 54. The root word 'bene' means ..... A) Large. B) Sound. C) Voice. D) Good. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Good. 55. The prefix dis-, like in the word dishonest means A) One. B) Before. C) Not or away. D) Half. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not or away. 56. Identify the suffix in the word:smarter A) Ter. B) Smart. C) Er. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Er. 57. A microscope is a lens that magnifies things we cannot see with our own eyes.What does the root word micro mean? A) See. B) Huge. C) Small. D) Magnify. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Small. 58. What is the meaning of the root word-contra-? A) Hearing/listening. B) Say. C) Star. D) Opposite/against. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Opposite/against. 59. If you have to reconstruct something, you ..... A) Have to read again. B) Build something again. C) Build something. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Build something again. 60. What is the definition of the root word ambi A) Both. B) Water. C) Strength. D) To make. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Both. ← 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 9Root Words Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books