Roots Practice

​Roots Review

(Tain, Fect, Mit, Mis)

By Kayla Smith

Multiple Choice

The word retain most likely means:

• To give away something you own

• To hold on to something
  

• To move quickly

• To make something stronger

Multiple Choice

If someone is submissive, they are likely to:

• Send orders to others

• Hold power over everyone

• Be easily controlled or influenced

• Refuse to send any information

Multiple Choice

The word defective means something is:

• Perfectly made

• Missing important parts or not made correctly

• Able to hold a lot of weight

• Sent in the wrong direction

Multiple Choice

The word transmit most closely means:

• To hold something tightly

• To send across or pass along

• To make something disappear

• To hold back emotions

Multiple Choice

The root tain in the word containment helps show that the word is about:

• Sending something

• Holding something in

• Making something perfect

• Breaking something apart

Multiple Choice

The root miss in the word dismiss helps you know it means:

• To send away

• To hold tightly

• To make better

• To do incorrectly

Multiple Choice

The word affection comes from the root fect, which means:

• To hold

• To send

• To make or do

• To move

Multiple Choice

Which of the following words contains a root meaning “to hold”?

• Omit

• Retain

• Infect

• Dismiss

Multiple Choice

Which word shows the idea of sending again?

• Admit

• Remit

• Commit

• Dismiss

Match

Match each word to its correct meaning.

• Admit

• Perfect

• Dismiss

• Maintain

To send yourself to confess

To make something the best

To send away or remove from a group

To hold something steady or keep it goin

• To send yourself to confess

• To make something the best

• To send away or remove from a group

• To hold something steady or keep it goin

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Use one of the roots (tain, mit, miss, fect) to complete each word correctly.

The teacher had to dis

the class after the bell rang.

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Use one of the roots (tain, mit, miss, fect) to complete each word correctly.

Please sub

your essay before Friday’s deadline.

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Use one of the roots (tain, mit, miss, fect) to complete each word correctly.

The car was de

ive and wouldn’t start.

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Use one of the roots (tain, mit, miss, fect) to complete each word correctly.

We must main

our focus during the test.

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Use one of the roots (tain, mit, miss, fect) to complete each word correctly.

His words in

ed everyone in the room with joy.

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Use one of the roots (tain, mit, miss, fect) to complete each word correctly.

The group will need to com

to the project by tomorrow.

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Use one of the roots (tain, mit, miss, fect) to complete each word correctly.

When you o

something, you leave it out or fail to include it.

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Use one of the roots (tain, mit, miss, fect) to complete each word correctly.

The scientist per

ed the experiment three times for accuracy.

Match

Match each word to its correct meaning.

• Abstain

• Emit

• permissive

• Infectious

To not to participate or “hold back"

To send off or release

allowing something to be sent through

making or doing something to the body

• To not to participate or “hold back"

• To send off or release

• allowing something to be sent through

• making or doing something to the body