This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Vocabulary > Prefix Suffix – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Prefix Suffix Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Add a prefix to the correct form of the word in brackets and use the word in the space provided.4 ..... Attempts to communicate in a foreign language can easily go wrong. I'm always 1) ..... (APPOINT) by my attempts to speak Greek on holidays The waiter on Samos 2) ..... (UNDERSTAND) what I wanted and instead of beetroots brought me mushrooms. I 3) ..... (LIKE) mushrooms greatly but when I asked him to 4) ..... (PLACE) them with beetroots he smiled, went into the kitchen and 5) ..... (TURN) with a plateful of aubergines. A) REPLACE. B) REPLACES. C) PLACES. D) REPLACED. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) REPLACE. 2. When two people are dating and hoping to marry, it's called COURT ..... A) SHIP. B) ABLE. C) OLOGY. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) SHIP. 3. The underlying framework of a system. A) Destruct. B) Infrastructure. C) Construct. D) Obstruct. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Infrastructure. 4. In Japan it's considered very ..... (polite) to blow your nose in public. A) Impolite. B) Polites. C) Politely. D) Polite. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Impolite. 5. Which prefix means "not or negative? " A) Non-. B) Sub-. C) En-/em-. D) Over-. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Non-. 6. The definition of permit is to ..... A) Drive a car. B) All to send something through. C) Thoroughly check. D) Allow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All to send something through. 7. Contain a cytoplasm A) Prokaryote. B) Eukaryote. C) Both prokaryote & Eukaryote. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both prokaryote & Eukaryote. 8. What does the prefix gastro-mean? A) Blood. B) Plants. C) Stomach. D) Offspring. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stomach. 9. A caterpillar makes a ..... FORMATION into a butterfly. A) DIS. B) TELE. C) TRANS. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) TRANS. 10. What does the prefix spect mean? A) Far away. B) Together. C) To see or look. D) Time. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To see or look. 11. 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. 12. The cyclist was ..... (qualify) from the race after failing a drugs test. A) Qualified. B) Qualifying. C) Disqualified. D) Unqualified. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Disqualified. 13. What is the prefix for no/not A) -synthesis. B) An-/a-. C) -tion. D) Glyco-. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An-/a-. 14. The ..... of the new office building took the builders six months to complete. A) Destruction. B) Construction. C) Reconstruction. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Construction. 15. Batman's enemy the Joker is so ..... SANE that he has no remorse for his victims. A) IN. B) MAL. C) MONO. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) IN. 16. Add a prefix to the word Bellum to mean before war ..... A) Pre. B) Post. C) Semi. D) Ante. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ante. 17. What does "in" mean? A) In. B) Before. C) Not. D) Over. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not. 18. Which prefix means far away? A) Tele. B) Pre. C) Scope. D) Aud. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tele. 19. What does the root 'auto' stand for? A) Self. B) Water. C) Life. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Self. 20. What prefix/suffix can we add for the word HOME? A) Less. B) Re. C) Dis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Less. 21. The process that produces a new copy of an organism's genetic information, which is passed on to a new cell. A) Replication. B) Trascription. C) Translation. D) Parts of a nucleotide. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Replication. 22. What does the word "worthless" mean? A) Unable to make something have value. B) Full of worth. C) Not having any value. D) To not pay for something. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not having any value. 23. Which word means the ability to use each of your hands equally skilled? A) Ambiguous. B) Adjacent. C) Ambidextrous. D) Advance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ambidextrous. 24. Brenna had everything that she needed to ..... a nice new treehouse. A) Construct. B) Obstruct. C) Reconstruct. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Construct. 25. A cross between two pea plants that produce yellow seeds results in 4 offspring:3 yellow pea plants & 1 green pea plant. What are the likely genotypes that were crossed? A) Both Yy. B) One YY, one Yy. C) Both yy. D) Both YY. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Both Yy. 26. The Astros always warm-up during the pregame events at Minute Maid Park.What is the meaning of the word pregame in the sentence above? A) Before you watch something. B) Before the game. C) Before lunch. D) Before the baseball. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Before the game. 27. What does the prefix geno-mean? A) Without. B) Plants. C) Blood. D) Offspring. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Offspring. 28. Hernia, swelling, protrusion A) -graphy. B) -esthesia. C) -the. D) -trophy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) -the. 29. Which word is an antonym for admire? A) Hate. B) Appreciate. C) To respect. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hate. 30. Is logy a prefix or a suffix A) Prefix. B) Neither. C) Suffix. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Suffix. 31. I scraped my knee on the concrete when I fell off my bike. I was unsure if I would need a Band-Aid, but it was very painful.What is the meaning of the word painful in the sentence above? A) Full of regret. B) Full of pain. C) Knee. D) Not sure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Full of pain. 32. Science has limitations, because A) Investigations that don't reach a firm conclusion are useless. B) It can only make decisions regarding moral judgments that individual people struggle with. C) It cannot explain things that are outside the realm of science, as they deal with phenomena thatare not scientifically testable. D) It is only allowed to make decisions about how to apply science. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It cannot explain things that are outside the realm of science, as they deal with phenomena thatare not scientifically testable. 33. Bacteria will keep ..... PLYING if you don't clean an infected sore. A) AUTO. B) PRE. C) MULTI. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) MULTI. 34. Your teacher will IN ..... your essay to make sure you included textual evidence. A) GRAPH. B) SPECT. C) PHON. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) SPECT. 35. Which phase of mitosis do chromosomes line up in the middle? A) Metaphase. B) Anaphase. C) Telophase. D) Prophase. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metaphase. 36. What is the prefix for acid A) Co-. B) Auto. C) -ate. D) Cata-. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) -ate. 37. The process of making a copy of a DNA strand into a complementary strand of mRNA A) Translation. B) Replication. C) Transcription. D) Parts of a nucleotide. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transcription. 38. What does the prefix Geo-mean? A) Land, earth. B) Water. C) Small. D) Not. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Land, earth. 39. If the boy gently set the book on the table, he did it in a gentle, or soft, way. Think of the words quickly, happily, and sadly. What does the prefix-ly mean? A) Nice. B) In a way. C) Without. D) Lots of. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In a way. 40. In the word autograph, what is the prefix? A) Graph. B) There is no prefix. C) Ogra. D) Auto. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Auto. 41. What does the prefix be-mean? A) Bad, wrong, opposite of, lack of, not. B) Two. C) On, around, over. D) Not, without, lacking, on. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) On, around, over. 42. What is the meaning of the prefix, "en" in the word, "encounter" ? A) To cause to be. B) Life. C) Together. D) To make. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To cause to be. 43. Definition of:Hypo A) Excessive. B) Deficient or too little. C) After. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deficient or too little. 44. Is anti a prefix or a suffix A) Neither. B) Prefix. C) Suffix. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prefix. 45. Prefix bio means A) Together. B) Living. C) Life. D) Weight. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Life. 46. Which word means that you do not have the ability? A) Disability. B) Inability. C) Unability. D) Reability. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inability. 47. What is the meaning of "inability" ? A) Able to do again. B) Full of ability. C) Not able to do. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Not able to do. 48. In math, you put numbers in a bar graph. A graphic novel has words and pictures. The root word graph means ..... A) Big. B) Small. C) To write, draw, or picture. D) To see up close. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To write, draw, or picture. 49. What is the meaning of the suffix, "tion" in the word, "attention" ? A) Name. B) Together. C) Life. D) Act of. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Act of. 50. What does the prefix Terr-mean? A) Land, earth. B) Water. C) Small. D) Animal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Land, earth. 51. Solute moves in forcing water in A) Isotonic Solution. B) Hypertonic Solution. C) Hypotonic Solution. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hypotonic Solution. 52. What does "gyn" mean? A) Woman. B) Many. C) Man, male. D) Center. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Woman. 53. Painful, difficult A) E-, ex-. B) Ab-. C) Ad-. D) Dys-. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dys-. 54. What does the following prefix mean? Pre A) Not or opposite. B) Before. C) Again. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Before. 55. In the word Onomatopoeia, which syllable is the open syllable? A) Ono-. B) -Mato-. C) -poeia. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 56. The group planned to ..... the entrance to the computer store that had cheated them. A) Obstruct. B) Destruct. C) Contract. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Obstruct. 57. The boy was missing for a few days. He was unseen, and no one had heard from him either.What is the meaning of the word unseen in the sentence above? A) The Ocean. B) Not heard. C) Before you see something. D) Not seen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Not seen. 58. What does the suffix "less" mean? example:The superhero was fearless . A) A lot. B) Without. C) Full of. D) With. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Without. 59. Previews and trailers are similar, they are sneak peeks of what the movie will be. What does the prefix "pre" mean A) Without. B) Before. C) Quick. D) With. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Before. 60. The voters were not ..... despite the politician's lengthy speech. A) Invincible. B) Contratible. C) Convincible. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Convincible. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesEnglish Grammar QuizzesPrefix Suffix Quiz 1Prefix Suffix Quiz 2Prefix Suffix Quiz 4Prefix Suffix Quiz 5Prefix Suffix Quiz 6Prefix Suffix Quiz 7Prefix Suffix Quiz 8Prefix Suffix Quiz 9Prefix Suffix Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books