Roots, Prefixes, & Suffixes - Lesson 3

Fill in the blank: A ______ is a quality, skill, or experience that makes a person suited to do a job. The job applicant listed his credentials on his resume.

• credential

• hobby

• habit

• interest

Match the following words with their meanings.

• able to be believed; reasonable to trust or believe

• credible

• not able to be believed; unlikely to be true

• incredible

• feeling uncertain about something

• unbelievable

• impossible to believe; extraordinary

• doubtful

Fill in the blank: A ______ is a person, bank, or company that lends money to someone. The college student borrowed money from a creditor to buy a car.

• creditor

• debtor

• borrower

• investor

Fill in the blank: A (a)   is a statement of the basic beliefs of a religion; an idea or set of beliefs that guides the actions of a person or group. Our family’s creed has been passed down from several generations.

• creed
• manifesto
• doctrine
• dogma

Fill in the blank: ______ means not able or willing to believe something; feeling or showing a lack of belief. I was incredulous as I listened to him tell his side of the story.

• incredulous

• gullible

• trusting

• believing

Fill in the blank: To ______ means to take the job or position of someone or something; to force people or animals to leave the area where they live; to move something so that it is no longer in its original or regular location. Younger workers have displaced many older, more expensive employees.

• displace

• replace

• remove

• relocate

Fill in the blank: To ______ means to cause someone to feel ashamed; to cause someone or something to lose or become unworthy of respect or approval. The awful scandal disgraced everyone who worked in the governor’s office.

• disgrace

• honor

• praise

• commend

Fill in the blank: To ______ means to find or understand the true or hidden meaning of something; to change (secret messages, documents) from a set of letters, numbers, and/or symbols you cannot understand into words you can understand. I was unable to decode her true feelings from reading her letter.

• decode

• encode

• encrypt

• conceal

To (a)   means to take something away from someone or something; to not allow to have or keep something. The doctor would never intentionally deprive his patient of treatment.

• deprive
• provide
• grant
• supply

Fill in the blank: To ______ means to become lower in amount or less in number; to become worse in condition or quality; to say that you will not or cannot do something. I will have to decline the invitation to Kathy’s wedding since we are going on vacation that week.

• decline

• increase

• accept

• improve