Vocabulary and Root Meanings Quiz

What is the meaning of the root "DICT"?

• Light, shine, source

• Speak, say, speech

• Bad, wretched, evil

• Middle

Which word means a formal charge or accusation of a serious crime?

• Infraction

• Interject

• Indictment

• Mediate

What does the root "FRACT, FRAG" mean?

• Among, between

• Break

• Big

• Wander, moving

Which word means a violation or infringement of a law?

• Conjecture

• Magnanimous

• Infraction

• Malignant

What is the meaning of the root "INTER"?

• Cast, throw

• Light, shine, source

• Among, between

• Less, smaller

Which word means to say something abruptly, especially as an aside or interruption?

• Interject

• Migrate

• Diminish

• Mediate

Which word means emitting or reflecting usually steady, suffused, or glowing light?

• Mediate

• Magnanimous

• Luminous

• Migrate

Which word means noble and generous in spirit, especially towards a rival or someone less powerful?

• Malignant

• Magnanimous

• Diminish

• Interject

Which word describes a "bad" tumor or someone disposed to do "evil"?

• Malignant

• Mediate

• Migrate

• Conjecture

What does the root "MIN" mean?

• Less, smaller

• Big

• Light, shine, source

• Among, between