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Root Words

Total questions: 42

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the meaning of the root word "vi"/"via"?
a)
to come against
b)
by way of 
c)
to go 
d)
to sleep 
2.
What is the meaning of the root word "therm"?
a)
weather
b)
temperature 
c)
heat
d)
climate
3.
What is the meaning of the root word "tele"?
a)
sound 
b)
telephone
c)
television
d)
transmission over a distance 
4.
What is the meaning of the root word "path"?
a)
pathogen
b)
disease
c)
cure 
d)
sympathetic 
5.
What is the meaning of the root word "ped"?
a)
to do with child or children 
b)
pedagogue 
c)
to do with the elderly
d)
to do with adults 
6.
What is the meaning of the root word "super"?
a)
to be placed below or under 
b)
superficial
c)
to place or be placed above or over
d)
superlative 
7.
What is the meaning of the root word "dis"?
a)
apart
b)
together 
c)
distance
d)
disorder 
8.
What is the meaning of the root word "com"?
a)
spread out evenly 
b)
apart
c)
communicate
d)
together/common
9.
What is the meaning of the root word "aud"?
a)
to hear
b)
audience
c)
applaud
d)
auditory 
10.
What is the meaning of the root word "dem"?
a)
democracy 
b)
animals
c)
plants
d)
people
11.
What is the meaning of the root word "ambi"?
a)
amphibian 
b)
ambidextrous
c)
both 
d)
one 
12.
What is the meaning of the root word "ab"?
a)
away from
b)
absent
c)
abduct
d)
close 
13.
What is the meaning of the root word "ang"?
a)
triangle
b)
mangle
c)
rectangle 
d)
to bend
14.
What is the meaning of the root word "astro"?
a)
asteroid 
b)
astronaut 
c)
star
d)
asterisk
15.
many
a)
scope
b)
therm
c)
geo
d)
poly
16.
color
a)
chrome
b)
poly
c)
chron
d)
therm
17.
heat
a)
bi
b)
gen
c)
ops
d)
therm
18.
earth, ground
a)
chron
b)
geo
c)
meter
d)
therm
19.

What does the root "anthro" mean?

a)

human being/makind

b)

anthropoloy

c)

arthropod

d)

animals

20.
the length of a line that goes around a circle or other round shape
a)
circumference
b)
cyclical
c)
circuit
d)
central
21.
The prefixes circ-, circum- mean...
a)
round, around
b)
across
22.

a four-footed creature

a)

biped

b)

centipede

c)

quadruped

d)

moped

23.

What does the root word "claim" mean?

a)

clamor

b)

shout, declare, call out

c)

to call someone on the phone

d)

to cry

24.
What does the root "anthro/p" mean?
a)
human, people
b)
animals
c)
insects
d)
life
25.

What does the root "ist" mean?

a)

biologist

b)

lazy

c)

someone who doesn't

d)

someone who does

26.

What does the root "medi" mean?

a)

middle

b)

large

c)

medium

d)

small

27.

What does the word labor mean?

a)

belabor

b)

be lazy

c)

work

d)

not work

28.

Which word does NOT relate to the word "mono"?

a)

monotone

b)

monologue

c)

monotheism

d)

polygraph

29.

What does the root word "omni" mean?

a)

all

b)

none

c)

omnivorous

d)

both

30.
What is the base word of famous?
a)
fa-
b)
fame
c)
-ous
d)
re-
31.
The suffix -ous means...
a)
again
b)
not
c)
full of
d)
life
32.
Find the word or words with the same meaning as mysterious.
a)
complicated
b)
gradual
c)
hard to explain
d)
loud and violent
33.
Which word could you add the suffix -ous. 
a)
cat
b)
shelf
c)
date
d)
poison
34.

What does "peri" mean?

a)

flower

b)

heat

c)

around, surounding

d)

through

35.

What is the meaning of the root "tele" ?

a)

telephone

b)

smartphone

c)

television

d)

transmission over a distance

36.

What is the meaning of the root word "acro"?

a)

acrobat

b)

acrophobia

c)

perimeter

d)

high, tip, top

37.
to write on something a date that comes after the real date
a)
postdate
b)
postscript
c)
postgraduate
d)
postproduction
38.
a person who takes a college class after he or she has already graduated
a)
postgraduate
b)
postproduction
c)
posthumous
d)
postpone
39.
occurring or continuing after death; usually related to a book that is published after the author has died
a)
posthumous
b)
postpone
c)
postindustrial
d)
postmortem
40.
a mark printed across a stamp after it is received by the post office
a)
postmark
b)
postdate
c)
postpone
d)
postscript
41.
to do something at a time or date after it was originally planned
a)
postpone
b)
postmark
c)
postdate
d)
postgraduate
42.

The root "theo" means god.

a)

true

b)

false

c)

I don't know

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