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Greek & Latin Roots

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What's the meaning of pedestrian?
a)
A creature with 1,000 feet
b)
A person who goes from door to door on foot trying to sell a product.
c)
A person who walks across the street on foot.
d)
A walker used by a disabled person
2.
What are manacles?
a)
handcuffs
b)
a handbook
c)
something handwritten
d)
A sea creature
3.
What does introspection mean?
a)
One way of looking at things.
b)
To show honor
c)
Looking back at past things.
d)
The act of looking into one's own thoughts.
4.
What is diction?
a)
To speak against
b)
what is written down as someone says it
c)
A leader who speaks and rules with total power
d)
The manner in which something is expressed in words.
5.
What does it mean to be dejected?
a)
To feel thrown down in spirit
b)
To throw out
c)
The throwing of medicine into the body by a needle
d)
to throw goods overboard to lighten the load on a boat or an airplane
6.
If you trisect something, what have you done?
a)
Cut something into two pieces
b)
Cut something apart for the purpose of investigation
c)
Cut something into three pieces
d)
Cut across something
7.
What is a quadruped?
a)
A creature with two feet
b)
A creature with 100 feet
c)
A three-footed stand often used to balance a camera
d)
A four footed creature
8.
What does it mean to be emancipated?
a)
To set free; to release from someone's hands.
b)
To make by hand or by machine
c)
A handwritten or typed piece of writing
d)
An order or command placed in one's hands
9.
What is a perspective?
a)
A careful look at all possibilities
b)
To look carefully in search of flaws
c)
To show honor
d)
One way of looking at things
10.
If you take dictation, what are you doing?
a)
Speaking against something
b)
Writing down what someone says
c)
Saying what will happen before it happens
d)
Making the decision with a jury
11.
You jettisoned the luggage, what did you actually do?
a)
Throw something away because it was defective
b)
Throw it into the air with great force
c)
Throw things overboard to lighten the load
d)
Throw yourself under the rule of someone else
12.
Your mom bought a sectional, what is it?
a)
A couch made of three separate pieces
b)
A group of animals with three sections to their bodies.
c)
A new stove
d)
A large vehical
13.
What is a sector?
a)
A separate part of a society
b)
A cut across something
c)
The point where two lines or roads meet and cut across each other
d)
A separate part of something
14.
The Harris Button factory only manufactures buttons with straight sides.  What will it do with circular buttons?
a)
Subject
b)
interject
c)
projectile
d)
reject
15.
What do you call a person who looks at clothes to make sure they have been made properly?
a)
Dictum
b)
Dictator
c)
Inspector
d)
Indictment
16.
What are historical rulers who force everyone to follow theit laws and wishes called?
a)
Dictator
b)
Manipulator
c)
Spectator
d)
Dictation
17.
When you cross the boarder the guards will do this to your vehical.
a)
Spectacle
b)
Inspect
c)
retrospect
d)
introspect
18.
Lions, tigers and cats are examples of ....
a)
Bipeds
b)
Tripods
c)
peddlers
d)
Quadrupeds
19.
Who is the person in charge of other people in a company or restaraunt?
a)
Manager
b)
Manage
c)
Pedestrian
d)
Peddler
20.
Manicure is to ______ as Pedicure is to ______.
a)
clean/dirty
b)
over/under
c)
feet/hands
d)
hands/feet