Vocabulary Test: flect, flex and frail, fract, frag

If a birthday cake is cut into twenty pieces, what will your slice be compared to the whole cake?

• fractional

• infringed

• flexible

• frail

Which word describes people who can bend all the way down to touch their toes without bending or sitting down?

• inflexible

• refracting

• flexible

• circumflexed

The 100-year-old porcelain doll that was your great grandmother's would probably be described with which of the following words?

• fragmented

• flexible

• suffrage

• fragile

There was a movement by women to win the right to vote. What was it called?

• retroflex

• infraction

• flexor

• suffrage

If you break a bone in your body, then you will likely be told by a doctor that you have done this to the bone.

• refracted

• fractured

• deflected

• flexed

If you draw a tree beginning with a large y, then add smaller and smaller Y's, you are creating these.

• fragments

• fractals

• flexes

• deflections

A mosaic piece of art could be described as this since it's made out of broken pieces of glass or pottery.

• flexible

• refracted

• fractured

• fragmented

What do you see in the mirror due to the bending of light back at you?

• reflection

• fracture

• deflection

• inflection

Elderly people may be described as being in this state since their bones are fragile and their skin is thin.

• frail

• fragile

• reflected

• flexible

What does the root fract mean?

• bend

• break, shatter

• to cut

• to write