Root Quiz 7

Match the following roots with their definitions.

• to carry

• port

• to break

• mater

• father

• pater

• mother

• rupt

• many

• multi

Match the following roots with their definitions.

• to cut

• cred

• believe

• auto

• self

• sect/sec

• to write

• scrib/scribe

• death

• mort

Match the following roots with their definitions.

• water

• logy

• study of

• meter

• life

• chron

• time

• aqua

• to measure

• bio

What does a mortician do?

• A mortician is someone who studies death.

• A mortician is the mother of Wednesday Addams.

• A mortician prepares the body of a person who has died for burial.

• A mortician is someone who prescribes treatment for an illness.

An inscription is ____________________.

• a short dedication written on an object

• A doctor's treatment for a patient

• when someone has broken the bank

• something related to a mother

What does it mean to bisect something?

• To be able to die

• to cause a break in the regular flow or order of something

• To cut something into two pieces

• to make many different kinds of something

What is a multitude?

• A lot (many) of something

• A writing about something

• carrying many things

• the head of the family

What is a patriarch?

• carrying something across a distance

• A society where women control society and government

• The male (man) head of a family or tribe, like the father of a family

• someone who cuts a piece off of something

Who are your maternal grandparents?

• If you miss this question, I can't help you!

• The parents of your father

• Joe and Marsha

• The parents of your mother

Which objects are portable?

• a book

• the moon

• a skyscraper

• a bag