Anti-/Contra- Vocabulary Quiz

A bad guy in a story or movie is called a(n)

• antagonist

• antonyms

• contradict

• contrast

Give one example of an antagonist

If something is antibacterial it is

• active against bacteria

• fights bacteria

• kills germs

• all of the above

Check all of the items that are antibacterial

• hand sanitizer

• soap

• dirt

• food

• lysol spray

To describe the difference between two things

• contrast

• compare

• antagonist

• prefix

The prefixes anti- and contra- mean

• the opposite

• the same

• one

• two

Contradict

• to say the opposite of what someone else says

• words that have opposite meanings

• the land mass on the opposite side of the world from the Arctic

• a villian or bad guy

Choose all of the examples of antonyms

• hot/cold

• up/down

• top/above

• left/right

The land mass on the opposite of the world from the Arctic

• France

• Antarctic

• Jamaica

• South America

What are antonyms?

• words that have the same meaning

• words that have opposite meanings

• words that take the place of nouns

• pronouns