This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Vocabulary > Greek And Latin Root Words – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Greek And Latin Root Words Quiz 8 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. She was convicted of trying to ..... money from the senator and sent to jail for two years. A) Extort. B) Distort. C) Retort. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extort. 2. A living thing that is not a human being or plant A) Animate. B) Animal. C) Reincarnate. D) Carnivorous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Animal. 3. What is the definition of the root word gon A) Speak, word, reason. B) Corner, angle. C) Mind, soul, spirit. D) Shape, form. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Corner, angle. 4. A vehicle with two wheels that a person rides by pushing on foot pedals A) Bilingual. B) Biannual. C) Dual. D) Bicycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bicycle. 5. Send out of the country A) Import. B) Deport. C) Portable. D) Telephoto. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deport. 6. What does the following root word mean:vert/vers? A) Know. B) Straight. C) Turn. D) Word study. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Turn. 7. What is the definition of the prefix:de A) Shape. B) Corner, angle. C) Away from, down. D) Together. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Away from, down. 8. What is the prefix in the word inspect? A) In. B) Pec. C) Tion. D) Spect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In. 9. This prefix/suffix/root means "condition of." A) Man. B) Pend. C) Intra-. D) -dom. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) -dom. 10. What is written down as someone says it A) Edict. B) Dictum. C) Dictation. D) Verdict. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dictation. 11. Having two different parts, uses, etc.; having two of something A) Dual. B) Bicycle. C) Bilingual. D) Duet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dual. 12. What does the Greek Latin root word mit mean A) Eye. B) Light. C) Meansure. D) To send. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To send. 13. Having many twists and turns; complicated, long, and confusing A) Rotary. B) Tortuous. C) Controversial. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tortuous. 14. What is the meaning of the word manicure? A) A book written by hand. B) Handcuffs. C) Something made by hand. D) A treatment for the hands. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A treatment for the hands. 15. A science that deals with things that are alive, such as plants and animals; the study of life A) Biography. B) Biology. C) Bibliophile. D) Biodegradable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Biology. 16. Influential means A) Expo marker-they can dry erase!. B) Does not flow. C) Exerting influence. D) PENCILS. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exerting influence. 17. Which word matches this definition? A group of people who gather together to listen to or watch something. A) Audience. B) Auditorium. C) Mr. Allen. D) Audition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Audience. 18. Latin root word meaning carry A) Photo. B) Port. C) Teleport. D) Photo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Port. 19. The dog would have more ..... if he could get outside his kennel. A) Mobility. B) Commotion. C) Mobile. D) Immobility. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mobility. 20. What does the prefix omni-mean? A) Limited. B) Few. C) Everyone. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All. 21. A small harbor where small boats can dock A) Marina. B) Hydroelectric. C) Marine. D) Aqueduct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Marina. 22. This prefix/suffix/root means "primitive/ancient." A) Archae, arche, archi. B) -ante. C) Anti-. D) Aud. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Archae, arche, archi. 23. (Match the word to definition)The place which one stream flows into another stream, or ocean A) Influx. B) Infulx. C) Flux. D) My sock. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Influx. 24. Which root means small? A) Fin. B) Meter. C) Micro. D) Mega. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Micro. 25. What does the root word "urb" mean? A) Place. B) Time. C) Plant. D) City. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) City. 26. Sometimes magicians try to hypnotize someone with one of these objects as it sways back and forth. A) Perpendicular. B) Pendulum. C) Expenditure. D) Appendix. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pendulum. 27. Able to function or live both on land and in water A) Duet. B) Amphibious. C) Ambivalent. D) Duplex. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Amphibious. 28. A scientist who studies or is a specialist in physics A) Physicist. B) Physical. C) Physician. D) Physics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Physicist. 29. What does de-mean? A) Below. B) Under. C) Up. D) Down. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Down. 30. One part in a hundred; an amount that is equal to one one-hundredth of something A) Decimal. B) November. C) Centigrade. D) Percent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Percent. 31. A statement, thought, or action that is reasonable; words that make sense A) Analogy. B) Monologue. C) Logical. D) Prologue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Logical. 32. What is the root word of audition? A) Aud. B) Tion. C) Audtion. D) Sandy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aud. 33. Happening twice a year A) Dual. B) Ambiguous. C) Biannual. D) Bilingual. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Biannual. 34. The word decagon contains the root dec. What does the root dec mean? A) Bend or curve. B) One hundred. C) Ten. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ten. 35. A telephone is a machine that can carry the sound of someone's voice somewhere far away. The root tele means far away. What does the root phon mean? A) Life. B) Sound. C) Light. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sound. 36. Define the root word Primus A) First. B) Before. C) After. D) Prime. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) First. 37. A person who watches an event, show, game, or activity, sometimes as part of an audience. A) Special. B) Spectacle. C) Spectator. D) Spectacular. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spectator. 38. A tiny particle of light energy A) Telephoto. B) Photo. C) Photosynthesis. D) Photon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Photon. 39. (match the workd to the def.)Def. To move back and forth in waves A) Fluctuate. B) Flower power. C) Superfluous. D) Fluid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fluctuate. 40. My grand-father was the ..... of our family for many years. I sure do miss him. A) Patriarch. B) Patrician. C) Patronym. D) Alma-mater. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Patriarch. 41. What is the Latin root of the word dictator? A) Dict. B) To say. C) One who rules. D) Tor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dict. 42. What does spir-mean? A) Out. B) Breath. C) Water. D) Spirit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Breath. 43. Semi-is a latin root meaning A) Writing. B) Stars, outer space. C) Half, partial. D) Two, twice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Half, partial. 44. Autograph, automobile, automatic A) Move. B) Machine. C) Self. D) Write. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Self. 45. A long speech made by one person; a continuous series of jokes delivered by a comedian A) Eulogy. B) Monologue. C) Analogy. D) Dialog. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monologue. 46. What does the prefix photo-mean? A) Picture. B) Sun. C) Camera. D) Light. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Light. 47. An enemy or opponent A) Adversary. B) Controversial. C) Introvert. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adversary. 48. This prefix/suffix/root means "father." A) Cept, ceive. B) -dom. C) Pater, patr. D) Mater, matr, matri. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pater, patr. 49. What does "hydr" mean? A) Sound. B) Water. C) Hear. D) Believe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Water. 50. 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. 51. To make someone or something lively or excited; to make a drawing appear to move A) Reincarnate. B) Animal. C) Physician. D) Animate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Animate. 52. This Latin root words means:four A) Sent, sens. B) Magn. C) Quad. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quad. 53. 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. 54. To treat something or someone poorly without respect is the word A) Graduate. B) Degrade. C) Gradual. D) Regress. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Degrade. 55. This Latin root words means:bad A) Mal. B) Temp. C) Bi. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mal. 56. What does the root word "polit" or "polic" mean? A) City. B) People. C) Rule. D) Law. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) City. 57. Keith was having a hard time getting excited about going to the gym. "What does he need?' A) Motion. B) Motivation. C) Promotion. D) Mobility. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Motivation. 58. What does the root "optim" mean? A) See. B) Good. C) Best. D) Premium. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Best. 59. A long-distance race that has three parts:swimming, bicycling, and running A) Trimester. B) Quartet. C) Trident. D) Triathlon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Triathlon. 60. Geology, geography, geothermal A) Earth. B) Heat. C) Map. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Earth. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesGreek And Latin Root Words Quiz 1Greek And Latin Root Words Quiz 2Greek And Latin Root Words Quiz 3Greek 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 9Advanced Vocabulary Quiz 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books