Root Assessment #5: flect/flex, frag/fract

The roots frail, fract and frag mean

• to break

• to carry

• to bend

the roots flect and flex mean:

• to break

• to bend

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

• fracture

• flexible

• fraction

Which word describes people who can bend all the way down to touch their toes while standing or sitting down? 

• flexible

• inflexible

• fragment

The 100-year-old porcelain doll that was your great grandmother’s would probably be described as _______________.

• suffrage

• fragile

• fragment

There was a movement by women to win the ability to vote called the women's _____________ movement.

• suffrage

• refract

• retroflex

If you break a bone in your body, then you might be told by a doctor that you have _______________ the bone. 

• infractioned

• fragmented

• fractured

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

• fragmented

• refracted

• flexible

You see a _______________ in the mirror due to the bending of light back at you. 

• inflection

• reflection

• deflection

Sunlight will __________________ when it goes through a window, changing directions just slightly as the glass redirects it.

• refract

• retroflex

• inflection