Root Words Review

"ac" or "ag" means:

(for example, action or agenda)

• do

• list

• bossy

• old

Answer explanation

"ac" or "ag" means --> TO DO

(for example, action or agenda)

Match the following roots with their meanings:

• field

• "anima"

• love or friend

• "anthro"

• human beings

• "agri" or "agro"

• water

• "am"

• life or mind

• "aqua"

Answer explanation

agri/agro = field

ex: agriculture or agronomy

am = love/friend

ex: amicable, amorous

anima = life or mind

ex: animate, unanimous

aqua = water

ex: aquarium, aquaduct

anthrop = human beings

ex: anthropology

Which root means "government" or "rule"?

(a)  

Which root means "star"?

(a)  

Match the root with the definition:

• good

• "bene"

• book

• "audio"

• hear

• "bibli" or "biblio"

• life

• "bio"

• self

• "aut" or "auto"

Answer explanation

audi/audio = hear

ex: audiologist, audience

aut/auto = self

ex: autobiography

bene = good

ex: beneficial, benevolent

bibli/biblio = book

ex: bibliography

bio = life

ex: biology

What is the root that means "short" or "brief"?

(a)  

The root "cand" means:

• spontaneous

• able

• shine or glow

• option

Match the following roots with the definitions:

• go

• "ced"

• kill

• "chron" or "chrono"

• time order

• "capit"

• hundred

• "cid" or "cide"

• head

• "cent"

Answer explanation

capit = head

ex: decapitate (behead)

ced = go

ex: recede, proceed

cent = hundred

ex: century, centimeter

chron/chrono = in time order

ex: chronological, synchronize

cid/cide = kill

ex: homicide, germicide