Latin & Greek Roots, Book III, Unit 4 Practice

Use your knowledge of the root meaning and context clues to choose the BEST answer to complete each sentence.

The spread of ____________ on social media has led to a decline in public trust in the media.

• formation

• information

• reformation

• misinformation

Use your knowledge of the root meaning and context clues to choose the BEST answer to complete each sentence.

The company is implementing ___________ to improve employee morale.

• prefigure

• reform

• inept

• effigy

Use your knowledge of the root meaning and context clues to choose the BEST answer to complete each sentence.

The events of the past week ___________ a dark future for the country.

• figment

• misinform

• dispose

• prefigure

Use your knowledge of the root meaning and context clues to choose the BEST answer to complete each sentence.

An ________________ of the other team's mascot was burned at the pep rally.

• figment

• effigy

• aptitude

• posit

Use your knowledge of the root meaning and context clues to choose the BEST answer to complete each sentence.

Rob did not discover his _____________ for politics until he was in college.

• attitude

• adept

• aptitude

• inept

Use your knowledge of the root meaning and context clues to choose the BEST answer to complete each sentence.

The new government tried to __________ its ideas onto supporters of the old regime.

• impose

• reform

• inept

• formative

Use your knowledge of the root meaning and context clues to choose the BEST answer to complete each sentence.

The pirate captain's impatient _______________ led him to throw many lazy sailors to the sharks.

• posit

• misinformation

• impose

• disposition

Use your knowledge of the root meaning and context clues to choose the BEST answer to complete each sentence.

Try as I might to comfort Alicia, all my words seemed ________ of just plain wrong.

• posit

• inept

• adept

• impose

Use your knowledge of the root meaning and context clues to choose the BEST answer to complete each sentence.

Were the monsters only a _________ of a feverish brain, or did they really exist?

• pigment

• inept

• figment

• impose

Use your knowledge of the root meaning and context clues to choose the BEST answer to complete each sentence.

Tyler _________ his belief that all people should be treated fairly.

• figmented

• posited

• imposed

• prefigured