This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Vocabulary > Greek And Latin Root Words – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Greek And Latin Root Words Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Root means to speak A) Manu-. B) Dict-. C) Spec-. D) Pod-. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dict-. 2. What does the root word "temp" mean? A) Time. B) Change. C) Hot. D) Cold. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Time. 3. Liking to talk and talking smoothly and easily; very talkative A) Orifice. B) Loquacious. C) Detest. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Loquacious. 4. Outstanding; spectacular; feelings of success A) Sensitive. B) Sensational. C) Senstivie. D) Sensible. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sensational. 5. Formal words spoken or written by a jury that charge a person with a crime A) Edict. B) Dictation. C) Contradiction. D) Indictment. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indictment. 6. The manner in which something is expressed in words (written or spoken) A) Dictation. B) Diction. C) Predict. D) Dictionary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diction. 7. Based on the number 10 A) Decimeter. B) Nonagon. C) Percent. D) Decimal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Decimal. 8. A group of four singers or musicians who perform together A) Quartet. B) Quart. C) Trilogy. D) Quintuplet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Quartet. 9. On or near the sea A) Marine. B) Aqueduct. C) Aquifer. D) Maritime. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Maritime. 10. To speak against; to say the opposite A) Dictate. B) Edict. C) Predict. D) Contradict. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Contradict. 11. Retrospect means to A) Look back. B) Look forward. C) Look to the future. D) Look ahead. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Look back. 12. What is the root word in the word inspect? A) Ed. B) Pec. C) In. D) Spect. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spect. 13. This Latin root words means:bad, wretched, evil A) Sub. B) Mal. C) Min. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mal. 14. To carry from one place to another A) Telephoto. B) Photon. C) Portable. D) Transport. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Transport. 15. The army worried that it's enemy would find the large ..... that was not far from the base. A) Fender. B) Armory. C) Armada. D) Armadillo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Armory. 16. What does the root word port-mean? A) To build. B) To carry. C) To know. D) To hold. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To carry. 17. The principal ..... students' lockers today. A) Look. B) Prospect. C) Spectacle. D) Inspected. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inspected. 18. Some books include this introductory chapter telling the reader about the lives of the characters before the book begins. A) Eulogy. B) Dialog. C) Epilogue. D) Prologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prologue. 19. What does the Greek latin word telephone BEST mean A) Phone. B) Voice. C) Far off. D) To call. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Far off. 20. What does the root "vit" or "viv" mean? A) Wine. B) Food. C) Write. D) Life. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Life. 21. What does "log" mean? A) Water. B) Light. C) To carry. D) Word. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Word. 22. Which gift would cause offense? A) A nice dinner. B) A dead mouse. C) A teddy bear. D) A bouquet of flowers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A dead mouse. 23. Dangerous is to safe as open is the closed is an example of what? A) Logo. B) Analogy. C) Eulogy. D) Dialog. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Analogy. 24. Greek root word meaning light A) Photon. B) Deport. C) Port. D) Photo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Photo. 25. What does the Greek Latin root word ex mean A) With. B) Out. C) Ten. D) Two. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Out. 26. The male leader of a family or tribe ..... A) Abrupt. B) Patriarch. C) Various. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Patriarch. 27. A camera lens that makes far away objects appear to be closer. A) Transport. B) Teleport. C) Photon. D) Telephoto. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Telephoto. 28. The quality or condition of being diverse; an assortment ..... A) Abrupt. B) Variety. C) Erupt. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Variety. 29. Lucas purchased a new hybrid car that gets the best mileage of any car in its class. "What did Lucas purchase?" A) Automobile. B) Motion. C) Mobility. D) Motivation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Automobile. 30. To check someone's temperature, you would use a thermometer. What does the root "therm" mean? A) Heat. B) Ice. C) See. D) Sky. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heat. 31. What does the Greek Latin root word trans mean A) Half. B) Wrongly. C) Too little. D) Across. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Across. 32. Chronograph, synchronize, chronological A) Time. B) Time period. C) Old. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Time. 33. Incredulous means A) Incredible. B) A person, bank, or company that lends money to someone. C) Not being able or willing to believe something. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not being able or willing to believe something. 34. Gradual means ..... A) To treat someone poorly. B) Earning a degree from somewhere. C) Moving or changing in small amounts. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Moving or changing in small amounts. 35. What does the prefix semi-mean? A) Whole. B) Quarter. C) Third. D) Half. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Half. 36. What does the root word "scop" or "skept" mean? A) See. B) Window. C) Clear. D) Magnify. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) See. 37. What is the root word of maritime? A) Sea. B) Mar. C) Ocean. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mar. 38. Choose the antonym for the vocabulary word.irrational A) Sane. B) Ridiculous. C) Unreasonable. D) Foolish. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sane. 39. What does "graph" mean? A) Write. B) Foot. C) Light. D) Time. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Write. 40. Ashley was planning to get all of her friends to join her in the protest. "What does she need to do to her friends?" A) Remove. B) Mobilize. C) Promote. D) Demote. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Promote. 41. A leader who speaks and rules with total power A) Edit. B) Indictment. C) Verdict. D) Dictator. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dictator. 42. A person who creates animated movies and cartoons A) Physicist. B) Inanimate. C) Animate. D) Animator. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Animator. 43. What does the root "igni" mean? A) Hot. B) Heat. C) Burn. D) Fire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fire. 44. Not capable of life; nonliving things A) Reincarnate. B) Physical. C) Inanimate. D) Animate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inanimate. 45. Many people are ..... of President Donald Trump. They really seem to like him a lot. A) Patricians. B) Patrons. C) Patriarchs. D) Patterns. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Patrons. 46. A shape that is like a star with five points formed by five straight lines A) Pentagram. B) Pentagon. C) Trimester. D) Quadrangle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pentagram. 47. A device that responds to a physical stimulus (heat, light, sound, pressure, magnetism, or motion) and transmits a resulting impulse. A) Sensation. B) Sensor. C) Presence. D) Sense. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sensor. 48. I bought a new telescope, so I can look at the stars. What does tele mean? A) Talk. B) Phone. C) Far away. D) Close. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Far away. 49. Which word goes with this definition:A large room or building where people gather to hear a speech or watch a performance. A) Hawaii. B) Audience. C) Auditorium. D) Audition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Auditorium. 50. What does the room "verb" mean? A) Book. B) Author. C) Write. D) Word. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Word. 51. To bring goods into a country from abroad A) Import. B) Telephoto. C) Deport. D) Teleport. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Import. 52. This Latin root words means:empty A) Non. B) Inter. C) Vac. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vac. 53. This prefix/suffix/root means "kill." A) Intra-. B) Anti-. C) -ize. D) -cide. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) -cide. 54. What does the following root word mean:ced/cede? A) Go, move. B) Break, burst. C) Land. D) Write. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Go, move. 55. What is the latin root of the word "pedometer" ? A) Ped. B) Me. C) Er. D) Meter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ped. 56. Relying on someone else for aid or support; weighing down on someone else A) Expenditure. B) Appendix. C) Dependent. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dependent. 57. To consider something and make guesses about it; to form ideas or theories about an unknown. A) Bespect. B) Prospect. C) Speculate. D) Inspect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Speculate. 58. There are many great role models in the Bible. The greatest ....., however, is the one Jesus Christ set. A) Pattern. B) Patronym. C) Alma-mater. D) Patrician. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pattern. 59. This Latin root words means:cast, throw A) Medi, midi. B) Ject. C) Lunin. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ject. 60. The player would ..... the ball from the other team. A) Offense. B) Defend. C) Fender. D) Incisor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Defend. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesGreek And Latin Root Words Quiz 1Greek And Latin Root Words Quiz 2Greek And Latin Root Words Quiz 4Greek And Latin Root Words Quiz 5Greek And Latin Root Words Quiz 6Greek And Latin Root Words Quiz 7Greek And Latin Root Words Quiz 8Greek And Latin Root Words Quiz 9Advanced Vocabulary Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books