This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Morphology > Root Words – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Root Words Quiz 19 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Greek root word meaning time A) Chron. B) Geo. C) Geography. D) Chronicle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chron. 2. If-ology means to study, what does microbio logy mean? A) Study of large animals. B) Study of small living organisms. C) Study of living creatures. D) Study of small rocks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Study of small living organisms. 3. What word means curse? A) Malediction. B) Exculpate. C) Credence. D) Contrary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Malediction. 4. The art or science of agriculture (cultivating the earth) A) Chronological. B) Geography. C) Geoponics. D) Geothermal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Geoponics. 5. Name the root word in reread . A) Read. B) Re. C) Reread. D) Ad. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Read. 6. What is the base word in cheerfully? A) Ly. B) Fully. C) Cheerful. D) Cheer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cheer. 7. What is the meaning of the root word-bene-? A) Idea, belief. B) Well, goodness. C) To write. D) To draw. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Well, goodness. 8. Resistance or dissent, expressed in action or argument A) Apposition. B) Composition. C) Imposition. D) Opposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Opposition. 9. The root brev-like in the word abbreviate means A) Across. B) Short. C) After. D) Cause. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Short. 10. What is the root word of skips? A) Kip. B) Skip. C) Ski. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skip. 11. Which of these words means 'notsure'? A) Undone. B) Uncertain. C) Dissure. D) Unwilling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Uncertain. 12. What is the suffix in uncomfortable? A) Able. B) Comfort. C) Fort. D) Un. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Able. 13. The root word blurry can mean "dim" or "hard to see." The blurry tree would be ..... ? A) Very tall. B) Not clear. C) Very green. D) Not bloomed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not clear. 14. What is the root word in the word, "lovely?" A) Ly. B) Y. C) Lovely. D) Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Love. 15. What word means to change into a human? A) Bellatrix. B) Amorous. C) Anthropomorphize. D) Antediluvian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anthropomorphize. 16. What is the root word in the word OVERBORROWING? A) Over. B) Overborrowing. C) Borrowing. D) Borrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Borrow. 17. What is the definition of the root-dict-? A) An aquatic animal. B) A type of tape. C) To say. D) To do. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To say. 18. Gerald looked through the peek hole in his front door and saw one of these holding a box of candy. A) Pedestrian. B) Milipede. C) Quadruped. D) Peddler. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pedestrian. 19. A person who walks across the street on foot A) Quadruped. B) Peddler. C) Pedestrian. D) Biped. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pedestrian. 20. To speak A) JECT. B) SECT. C) PORT. D) DICT. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) DICT. 21. If 'chromatic' means color, what does monochromatic mean? A) Having only one color. B) Having multiple colors. C) Having no color. D) Coloring a paper. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Having only one color. 22. What does the root word "psycho" mean? A) All. B) Feel. C) Mind. D) Choice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mind. 23. Which word means "to use power against someone in a cruel or unjust way" ? A) Opponent. B) Oppress. C) Object. D) Obstacle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oppress. 24. What does the prefix "dec" or "deca" mean?As in decade, decimal, decagon. A) Two. B) Four. C) Eight. D) Ten. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ten. 25. What do the root words en-, and em-mean? A) Not. B) Before. C) Cause to. D) Between. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cause to. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesRoot Words Quiz 1Root Words Quiz 2Root Words Quiz 3Root Words Quiz 4Root Words Quiz 5Root Words Quiz 6Root Words Quiz 7Root Words Quiz 8Root Words Quiz 9Root Words Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books