This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Vocabulary > Greek And Latin Root Words – Quiz 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Greek And Latin Root Words Quiz 17 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Dehydrate means ..... A) Living or taking place in water. B) On or near the sea. C) To lose water or moisture; to become dry. D) A small harbor where small boats can dock. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To lose water or moisture; to become dry. 2. To make someone or something lively or excited; to make a drawing appear to move A) Reincarnate. B) Animal. C) Animate. D) Physician. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Animate. 3. This Latin root words means:four A) Sent, sens. B) Magn. C) Quad. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quad. 4. What is the meaning of the word maneuver? A) Handcuffs. B) To skillfully go around something. C) A handbook. D) A handwritten book. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To skillfully go around something. 5. To treat something or someone poorly without respect is the word A) Regress. B) Graduate. C) Gradual. D) Degrade. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Degrade. 6. This Latin root words means:bad A) Mal. B) Temp. C) Bi. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mal. 7. What does the root word "polit" or "polic" mean? A) Rule. B) Law. C) People. D) City. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) City. 8. Keith was having a hard time getting excited about going to the gym. "What does he need?' A) Mobility. B) Promotion. C) Motivation. D) Motion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Motivation. 9. What does the root "optim" mean? A) Best. B) Good. C) Premium. D) See. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Best. 10. A long-distance race that has three parts:swimming, bicycling, and running A) Triathlon. B) Trident. C) Quartet. D) Trimester. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Triathlon. 11. What does the prefix mal-mean? A) Angry. B) Good. C) Kind. D) Evil. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Evil. 12. Geology, geography, geothermal A) Earth. B) Heat. C) Map. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Earth. 13. What does the Latin root contra/counter mean? A) Strength. B) Shape. C) Against. D) To do. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Against. 14. Morphology is the study of the shape and form of things. The root logy means the study of something. What does the root morph mean? A) Look at or observe. B) Measure. C) Shape. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shape. 15. What does "ped" mean? A) Sound. B) Hear. C) Foot. D) Light. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foot. 16. This Latin root word means:yearly A) Ann, enn. B) Scrib, script. C) Tract. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ann, enn. 17. This Latin root words means:death A) Mort. B) Min. C) Miss, mit. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mort. 18. What does the Latin root circum mean? A) Square. B) Circumference. C) Circle. D) Around. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Around. 19. The siren sounded in the town to warn people of the upcoming tornado. What word below indicates that something was about to occur? A) Independent. B) Appendix. C) Dependent. D) Impending. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Impending. 20. To get around something in a clever and sometimes dishonest way A) Cycle. B) Concentric. C) Circumvent. D) Central. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Circumvent. 21. What does the Latin root mit mean? A) Mitten. B) Father. C) To send. D) To write. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To send. 22. This prefix/suffix/root means "thanks/pleasing." A) Grat. B) Anti-. C) -en. D) Pend. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grat. 23. Geo logy is the study of rocks and what the ..... is made of. A) Penguins. B) Earth. C) Life. D) Science. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Earth. 24. This Latin root word means:light, shine, source A) Mort. B) Contra, contro. C) Lunin. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lunin. 25. A flat shape that has five sides and five corners A) Quintuplet. B) Pentagram. C) Pentagon. D) Trimester. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pentagon. 26. One of five babies that are born at the same time to the same mother A) Triathlon. B) Quintuplet. C) Pentagon. D) Quadrangle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Quintuplet. 27. A wealthy person who gives money and time to help make life better for other people A) Photon. B) Philosophy. C) Philanthropist. D) Bibliophile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Philanthropist. 28. This Latin root words means:across, beyond, through A) Trans. B) Vid, vis. C) Lunin. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trans. 29. What does contra most likely mean in the word contradict? A) Together. B) Within. C) Against. D) Outside. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Against. 30. The study of ideas about knowledge, truth, the nature and meaning of life; your personal beliefs or opinions related to life A) Philanthropist. B) Biography. C) Philosophy. 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