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

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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

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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

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The word transmit most closely means:

• To hold something tightly

• To send across or pass along

• To make something disappear

• To hold back emotions

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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

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

• To send away

• To hold tightly

• To make better

• To do incorrectly

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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

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