This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Morphology > Roots Affixes – Quiz 38 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Roots Affixes Quiz 38 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. If an adverb is a word that describes an action, which of the following is NOT an adverb? A) Silently. B) Loudly. C) Spoke. D) Angrily. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spoke. 2. Which word shares the same root as "audible" ? A) Credible. B) Audience. C) Submarine. D) Tractor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Audience. 3. Based on the Latin root bene, the word benefit in paragraph 5 means A) Debt. B) Gift. C) Aid. D) Notice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aid. 4. The affix "phil" means- A) Heat; temperature. B) All; everything. C) Love. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Love. 5. What is the meaning of the suffixes-ian and-ist? A) Person who. B) Some who fears. C) State, quality. D) Place where. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Person who. 6. Create a new word by adding the prefix 'pre-' to the word 'view'. A) Preobserve. B) Presee. C) Preview. D) Prelook. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Preview. 7. The suffix-logy (as in biology, astrology) means ..... A) Study of. B) Life. C) Stars. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Study of. 8. What does the Latin root 'dict' mean? A) To say or speak. B) To write. C) To run. D) To build. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To say or speak. 9. Select the meaning of the root or affix:tele A) From afar, distance. B) Close together. C) In the manner of. D) Two. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) From afar, distance. 10. Grace visits the doctor with severe abdominal pain. The doctor mentions that she might have appendicitis. Use the suffix-itis to infer what appendicitis is. A) Medicine to ease inflammation. B) A type of emergency surgery. C) Inflammation of the appendix. D) Not having an appendix. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inflammation of the appendix. 11. The prefix auto-means A) Down. B) Back. C) Self. D) You. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Self. 12. Synonym for muster is? A) Assemble. B) Review. C) Respond. D) Mustard. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assemble. 13. The suffixes-fy and-ify mean: A) Relating to/ characterized by. B) To take/catch/ seize/hold/receive. C) Full of. D) To make. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To make. 14. Add suffix (ing) to try A) Trying. B) Triing. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trying. 15. The suffix-logist means A) Earth. B) Circle. C) One who does. D) One who does not. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) One who does. 16. Autocrat- A) Person who has complete power. B) Person not in power. C) A democracy. D) A signature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Person who has complete power. 17. Most modern operating systems have built-in screen servers that appear ..... A) Automatic. B) Automatically. C) Automaticity. D) Automatical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Automatically. 18. Match the root/affix with its meaningliber A) Not. B) Half. C) Feel. D) Free. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Free. 19. To slide on a wet road because a thin layer of water on the road causes the tires to lose contact with it. A) Dehydrated. B) Hydrant. C) Hydrate. D) Hydraulic. E) Hydroplane. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Hydroplane. 20. An affix that is added at the END of a root word is called a ..... A) Root. B) Affix. C) Suffix. D) Prefix. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Suffix. 21. The Latin root vis means A) Far. B) Earth. C) See. D) Before. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) See. 22. Which words have the same SUFFIX as ACTIVITY? A) Cycle and Cyclopse. B) Happy and Funny. C) Acting and Actor. D) Humidity and Electricity. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Humidity and Electricity. 23. To make something do what it should; to turn something on. A) Activate. B) Degrade. C) Gradual. D) Actual. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Activate. 24. The root chron means time. What does the word synchronize mean? A) To arrange things in a confusing way. B) To arrange things to be moved away. C) To arrange things to happen at the same moment. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To arrange things to happen at the same moment. 25. The affix "chron" means- A) Life; living things. B) Generation or creation. C) Time. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Time. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGrammar QuizzesRoots Affixes Quiz 1Roots Affixes Quiz 2Roots Affixes Quiz 3Roots Affixes Quiz 4Roots Affixes Quiz 5Roots Affixes Quiz 6Roots Affixes Quiz 7Roots Affixes Quiz 8Roots Affixes Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books