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Root Word #15 RUPT=Break

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 7mins

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Class
Date
1.

Which word means to be out of money?

a)

rupture

b)

bankrupt

c)

erupt

d)

rapture

2.

What does corruptible mean?

a)

concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character

b)

something that breaks up what you are doing; an unplanned event that breaks up an activity

c)

able to be influenced into doing something that breaks away from the rules; able to become bad

d)

something that breaks someone’s concentration; bothersome; annoying

3.

What is something that breaks someone’s concentration, or is bothersome and annoying?

a)

corrupt

b)

irritating

c)

abrupt

d)

disruption

4.

What does it mean to interrupt?

a)

to break into someone’s conversation

b)

to explode, or break out with force

c)

to burst or break open

d)

to add an answer

5.

What does rupture mean?

a)

to encourage someone else to break something

b)

to do something bad

c)

to burst or break open

d)

to break the bank

6.

What does abrupt mean?

a)

slowly ruin something

b)

read a book

c)

something that breaks someone's concentration

d)

sudden; unexpected; broken into what is expected

7.

What is something/ someone that is evil and dishonest, who has broken away from honesty?

a)

disrupt

b)

corrupt

c)

interruption

d)

bankrupt

8.

Disrupt means

a)

to see a long way off

b)

to mend, or make better

c)

to explode

d)

to break up; to cause confusion

9.

To explode or break out with force is to

a)

erupt

b)

implode

c)

rupture

d)

corrupt

10.

An interruption is when

a)

someone helps with what you are doing

b)

something causes confusion

c)

something breaks up what you are doing.

d)

something suddenly bursts open

11.

What part of speech is corruptible?

a)

adjective

b)

noun

c)

verb

d)

adverb

12.

What part of speech is disrupt?

a)

noun

b)

adjective

c)

verb

d)

adverb

13.

What part of speech is interruption?

a)

adverb

b)

verb

c)

adjective

d)

noun

14.

You would say that an active volcano

a)

interrupted

b)

corrupted

c)

erupted

d)

subrupted

15.

Which word literally means "between breaking"?

a)

interrupt

b)

rupture

c)

bankrupt

d)

abrupt

16.

If you _____ your appendex, you will have to have it removed.

a)

interrupt

b)

disrupt

c)

rupture

d)

bankrupt

17.

A _____ in electricity causes people to get candles and flashlights.

a)

abruption

b)

disruption

c)

rupture

d)

corruption

18.

If you are ____, you can't buy a new car.

a)

unhappy

b)

corrupted

c)

wealthy

d)

bankrupt

19.

The villian of the story was ____ by greed.

a)

corrupted

b)

saved

c)

interrupted

d)

abrupted

20.

The _____ noise frightened the children

a)

disrupt

b)

disrupt

c)

abrupt

d)

rupture