This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Morphology > Root Words – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Root Words Quiz 9 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does the root word "cide" mean?As in pesticide, insecticide, homicide. A) To study. B) To send for. C) To kill. D) To befriend. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To kill. 2. What does the suffix "ify" mean?As in terrify, mortify, horrify, modify. A) To build or grow. B) To make or cause. C) To write. D) To think. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To make or cause. 3. Per A) Across, through. B) To build. C) Beside, among. D) Speak, say, tell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Across, through. 4. If excite means to "stir up, " then an excitable person is one who ..... A) Is not stirred up. B) Can be stirred up. C) Was once stirred up. D) Can never be stirred up. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Can be stirred up. 5. Which word completes the sentence:Don't allow noise to ..... you from your work. A) Extract. B) Subtract. C) Distract. D) Protract. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Distract. 6. The Latin root min-, like in the word miniature means A) People. B) Greater. C) Green. D) Small, less. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Small, less. 7. What does the root word culp-mean? A) Words. B) Body. C) Distinct. D) Blame. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blame. 8. What does the root word idol-mean? A) Born, produced. B) Step. C) Image, likeness, shape. D) Write. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Image, likeness, shape. 9. What does the root word fore-mean? A) In. B) Opposite. C) Before. D) Against. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Before. 10. A tiny piece of a computer that holds the memory. A) Microphone. B) Microchip. C) Microwave. D) Microscope. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Microchip. 11. Which is the root word for the word restacked? A) Re. B) Ed. C) Restack. D) Stack. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stack. 12. What word means clear and alert? A) Lexicon. B) Lucid. C) Bellicose. D) Monarch. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lucid. 13. What does the root word "tele" mean as in the word telescope? I saw a planet looking through a telescope. A) Many. B) Sound. C) Far. D) To write. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Far. 14. A person's signature A) Autograph. B) Optical. C) Hypodermic. D) Graph. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Autograph. 15. This word means to carry something from one place to another. A) Transport. B) Deport. C) Export. D) Import. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transport. 16. What are root words? A) Words related to trees. B) Words discussed in science class. C) The stems or bases of words. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The stems or bases of words. 17. What does the root word "bene" mean as used in the word beneficial? Eating fruit and vegetables is beneficial to your health. A) Good. B) Bad. C) Delicious. D) Wrong. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Good. 18. Choose the root word for the following word:busiest A) Busy. B) Ist. C) Bus. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Busy. 19. What does the root word "lum" mean?As in luminous, illumination, luminary. A) Round. B) Hand. C) Light. D) Foot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Light. 20. What is antonym for the word oppress? A) Mistreat. B) Abuse. C) Help. D) Injustice. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Help. 21. The root word-ology means: A) The study of plants. B) Making something. C) Something burning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The study of plants. 22. What is the root word in the word, "illness?" A) Ness. B) Ill. C) Sick. D) Illness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ill. 23. A word or phrase placed next to another word in order to identify it A) Juxtapose. B) Imposition. C) Apposition. D) Expose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apposition. 24. A noun that means a musical instrument played by striking a row of metal bars of different lengths with one or more small wooden or plastic mallets A) Xylophone. B) Phonograph. C) Vista. D) Audience. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Xylophone. 25. A prefix comes at the ..... of a root word. A) Middle. B) End. C) Beginning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beginning. ← 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 10Root Words Quiz 11 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books