Aud/loq word root quiz

Speak up! Your mumbling is _______

• audible

• inaudible

• loquacious

• colloquial

"Yinz" is a Pittsburgh ________ meaning "you" for more than one person

• colloquialism

• soliloquy

• locution

• audition

An elocution teacher would help you become better at...

• listening effectively

• speaking clearly

• writing books and speeches

• memorizing vocabulary

This is a group of people who listens to a performance

I need to see an audiologist. This doctor will help me with...

• a hearing problem

• having lost my voice and being unable to speak

• losing my memory

• getting new glasses

Someone who is grandiloquent probably....

• uses big, dramatic words and speaking style

• can only hear very loud noises clearly

The word root circum- means around

"Circumlocution" probably means

• to be indirect in your speech and not get to the point

• to speak loudly

• to be unable to hear sounds from a particular direction

• to use words from your home area

Mara and Brad are angry at each other, but they still have to organize the school party. Brad asked Gina to go talk to Mara on his behalf and ask if they should get pizza or sandwiches. Gina is serving as an....

• interlocutor

• audience

• auditor

• ventriloquist

Hamlet's famous _____, a speech he gives while alone (solo) on stage, begins "To be, or not to be? That is the question."

• soliloquy

• ventriloquism

• eloquence

• somniloquist

A (an) ________ speaker uses words in an artistic, elegant way

• eloquent

• colloquial

• auditory

• inaudible