Dec/Deci/Deca/Cent/Mill Vocab

A decade is a period of time that lasts for ten years. The root word "dec" means

• one-tenth
• ten
• time
• years

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What is a decade?

• A period of 100 years.

• A period of 10 years.

• A period of 1,000 years.

• A period of 5 years.

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What do you call a sports contest that consists of 10 different events?

• decathlon

• decade

• decameter

• decithlon

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1. What is that creature? It has so many legs!

• centennial

• centipede

• decathlon

• decagon

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Her luggage was not even as wide as a full meter because it measured exactly 85 of these.

• centipedes

• decades

• centennials

• centimeters

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Can you believe that my dad is planning to compete in this annual event?

• decathlon

• centennial

• decagon

• century

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Our money system requires you to write these when writing money amounts on paper.

• decayhtlons

• decimals

• centimeters

• decagons

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When a company celebrates this anniversary, it will be in the newspapers due to its rarity.

• decade

• century

• centennial

• decathlon

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Since my grandpa is 98 years old, he hopes to make it to this unique mark.

• century

• decade

• decagon

• centimeter

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a period of a thousand years

• millennium

• century

• biannual

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