This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Vocabulary > Word Formation Academic Writing – Quiz 12 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Word Formation Academic Writing Quiz 12 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Ms Young, to who many of her students are writing, is living happily and ..... in Canada. A) Peace. B) Peaceful. C) Peacefully. D) Peace-loving. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Peacefully. 2. Many people often make a ..... between London and New York. COMPARE A) COMPARABLE. B) COMPARISON. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) COMPARISON. 3. ..... is free, but some people pay to send their children to private schools. A) Educate. B) Education. C) Educational. D) Educationally. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Education. 4. Happiness depends on the person's outlook in life A) Derivation. B) Conversion. C) Acronym. D) Clipping. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Derivation. 5. It was very ..... of you to notice that. A) Observe. B) Observatory. C) Observation. D) Observant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Observatory. 6. An eponym is a word formation process where words are coined from names of people or places. Which one is an example of an eponym? A) Mountaintop. B) Stockholm syndrome. C) Exordium. D) Psychopath. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stockholm syndrome. 7. There is no ..... between the incident at the concert and the protest march A) CONNECTING. B) CONNECTION. C) CONNNECTED. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) CONNECTION. 8. She sent me a GIF of laughing minions. GIF means ..... A) Graphics Interchange Format. B) Graphics Interchange Form. C) Graphics Incredible Form. D) Graphics Interconnected Format. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Graphics Interchange Format. 9. The toys were hidden ..... the mattress A) Below. B) Above. C) Under. D) Behind. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Under. 10. The process of combining the beginning of one word and the end of another word to form a new word. A) Borrowing. B) Blending. C) Clipping. D) Derivative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blending. 11. What is the suffix in the word 'helping'? A) Ly. B) Ing. C) Ed. D) Ful. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ing. 12. When the shop is busy, he will employ a/an ..... A) Assistant. B) Consistent. C) Persistent. D) Resistant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assistant. 13. I am normally not ..... , but I felt bad when we saw that our hotel room was on the 13th floor. (SUPERSTITION) A) Superstitious. B) Superstious. C) Superstitions. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Superstitious. 14. She finds her job ..... A) Exhausting. B) Exhausted. C) Exhaust. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exhausting. 15. I'm ..... in landscape design. A) Interested. B) Interesting. C) Interest. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Interested. 16. The ..... was among the tallest in the city A) BUILDING. B) BUILDER. C) BUILD. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) BUILDING. 17. Even the FBI could not solve the ..... crime. A) MYSTERIOUS. B) MYSTIFIED. C) MYSTERIOUSLY. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) MYSTERIOUS. 18. The word "slay" come from A) The Latin word "slagen" which means "to strike". B) The Anglo saxon word "slagen" which means "to strike". C) The Greek word "Sledge" that stands for "hammer". D) The Greek word "sledge" which means "to blow". Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Anglo saxon word "slagen" which means "to strike". 19. Noun for PLAY A) Playness. B) Player. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Player. 20. Properly A) Adverb. B) Noun. C) Adjective. D) Verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adverb. 21. I can't believe how many ..... there are on this TV channel. A) Advertising. B) Advertiser. C) Advert. D) Advertisements. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Advertisements. 22. Identify the word-formation process for each highlighted word.LAPTOP A) Compound word. B) Affixed word. C) Clipped word. D) Blended word. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compound word. 23. Library-noun (doer) A) Librarer. B) Librarian. C) Libran. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Librarian. 24. In all ..... the results will be satisfactory and they will pass the exam (Likely) A) LIKELIHOOD. B) LIKELYHOOD. C) LIKELINESS. D) LIKELYNESS. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) LIKELIHOOD. 25. It's not very ..... to eat such a large meal before going to bed. (sense) A) Sensitive. B) Sensible. C) All the above. D) None of the above. 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