Worksheets10th Grade Root Words Q3 Pretest
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 1hrs 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the definition of credential?
a)
A quality, skill or experience that makes a person suited to do a job.
b)
A statement of the basic beliefs of religion; an idea or set of beliefs that guides the actions of a person or group.
c)
A place where a group of people gather to watch something
d)
to believe
2.
What is the definition of creditor?
a)
A person, bank, or company that lends money to someone.
b)
A quality, skill or experience that makes a person suited to do a job.
c)
A card that you swipe when you want to buy something.
d)
able to be believed
3.
What is the definition of credible?
a)
Able to be believed; reasonable to trust or believe.
b)
Not able or willing to believe something; feeling or showing a lack of belief.
c)
A glass tank or bowl where fish/aquatic animals live
d)
a card that adults use to buy things with
4.
Which word matches this definition: A statement of the basic beliefs of religion; an idea or set of beliefs that guides the actions of a person or group.
a)
Creed
b)
Credential
c)
Incredulous
d)
Creditor
5.
Which word matches this definition: Not able or willing to believe something; feeling or showing a lack of belief.
a)
Incredulous
b)
Creed
c)
Credential
d)
Cred
6.
When you try to make excuses for your actions, whether they are are right or wrong, you are offering what?
a)
perjury
b)
justification
c)
credentails
d)
credit
7.
An area or region that is ruled, governed, or controlled by a certain person is said to be in that person's what?
a)
jurisdiction
b)
justification
c)
accreditation
d)
justice
8.
Which of the following is against the law in a courtroom?
a)
justice
b)
perjury
c)
creeds
d)
abjuring
9.
What is the name of the group of the people who listen to a court case to decide whether or not a person deserves to be punished?
a)
jury
b)
judge
c)
creditor
d)
jurist
10.
What do police officers try to upload?
a)
justice
b)
perjury
c)
jurists
d)
accreditation
11.
1. producing good or helpful results or effects
a)
bountiful
b)
beneficial
c)
bonus
d)
benign
12.
kind and generous
a)
bountiful
b)
benevolent
c)
benign
d)
bonus
13.
not causing death or serious injury; not cancerous
a)
bonus
b)
benign
c)
bountiful
d)
beneficial
14.
something good that is more than what was expected or required
a)
bountiful
b)
bonus
c)
benign
d)
beneficial
15.
Which word describes a person who gives money or helpful things for a good cause?
a)
bounteous
b)
benzene
c)
benefactor
d)
bon vivant
16.
Most stories have good and bad characters. Which word would most likely describe the bad characters in most books?
a)
malnourished
b)
malodorous
c)
malignant
d)
malevolent
17.
If a public official was caught doing something illegal or against good judgement, what might he be punished for?
a)
malfeasance
b)
malefactor
c)
malady
d)
malaria
18.
Sometimes people become this because they cannot afford to buy healthy foods, clean water, or vitamins.
a)
malodorous
b)
malnourished
c)
malady
d)
malignant
19.
Dr. Cell specializes in cancer research to help people who have tumors that are described as which of the following?
a)
malignant
b)
malice
c)
malodorous
d)
malaria
20.
Luckily, this disease is rarely found in the United States.
a)
malefactor
b)
malice
c)
malaria
d)
malignant
21.
Name the scientist who studies living things
a)
biographer
b)
neuribiologist
c)
autobiographer
d)
biologist
22.
What are you if you were in danger of disease of illness but you came out of it healthy and even more alive
a)
biopsy
b)
survivor
c)
antibiotic
d)
vital
23.
Which word is the layer of earth in which we live with all other living things?
a)
biosphere
b)
vivisection
c)
revial
d)
biology
24.
When a doctor removes a small piece of tissue from a living person to investigate it under the microscope, what is he or she doing?
a)
vivisection
b)
biopsy
c)
macrobiotics
d)
neurobiology
25.
What got its name because people believed that if you took it you might live a longer and healthier life
a)
vitiman
b)
vivisection
c)
biosphere
d)
biopsy
26.
If you were trying to bring your plant back to life by moving it into the sunshine, what are you hoping to do it?
a)
vivsection
b)
biospy
c)
revive
d)
survive
27.
A person who makes everyone smile and laugh at a party might be described using this word.
a)
vivacious
b)
vital
c)
biologist
d)
survivor
28.
which word reflects what your heart and lungs are for you survival?
a)
viable
b)
vital
c)
bioptic
d)
vivid
29.
a medicine used to save lives because it destroys harmful bacteria and cures infections
a)
biopsy
b)
biology
c)
antibiotic
d)
bioshpere
30.
The food chain in any environment explains how this works.
a)
symbiosys
b)
biology
c)
neurobiology
d)
macrobitotics
31.
bent or turned backward
a)
circumflex
b)
retroflex
c)
flexor
d)
inflexible
32.
Some people have many mirrors around the house because they love to admire their_____.
a)
flexible
b)
reflection
c)
circumflex
d)
deflect
33.
to turn or move to one side; to bend; to swerve
a)
flexor
b)
reflection
c)
deflect
d)
flexible
34.
capable of bending without breaking
a)
inflection
b)
inflexible
c)
reflect
d)
flexible
35.
Your arms and legs have these muscles to allow bending movements.
a)
flexor
b)
circumflex
c)
retroflex
d)
reflective
36.
This is what people get punished for.
a)
infractions
b)
fractions
c)
fractals
d)
fractures
37.
This word is usually used to describe when something is easily broken or destroyed
a)
framented
b)
suffrage
c)
refracted
d)
frail
38.
If a vase falls onto the floor and breaks in to little pieces, what can you then call the vase?
a)
fragile
b)
fragmented
c)
infringed
d)
refracted
39.
These designs are created by waves pounding on the seashore.
a)
refracted
b)
fractals
c)
sufferaged
d)
fragmented
40.
Many stores have warning labels near items that are like this, since you will have to buy it if you break it.
a)
fragile
b)
frail
c)
suffrage
d)
fractions
41.
a vein that carries blood back to the heart from the head; a vein that joins the head and the heart
a)
junction
b)
rejoin
c)
conjoined
d)
jugular
42.
the place where two highways or two sets of railroad tracks cross or join
a)
junction
b)
rejoin
c)
conjoined
d)
conjugate
43.
joined together; combined; united
a)
conjoined
b)
conjugate
c)
conjunction
d)
disjointed
44.
to join together or match a correct verb in grammar
a)
join
b)
conjugate
c)
conjunction
d)
disjointed
45.
a word that joins two phrases or sentences
a)
join
b)
joint
c)
conjunction
d)
disjointed
46.
to cause (someone or something) to become dishonest or immoral; to cause a change for the worse.
a)
erupt
b)
corrupt
c)
interrupt
d)
disrupt
47.
causing something to be unable to continue in the normal way; interrupting the normal progress or activity of something
a)
corrupt
b)
disruptive
c)
interrupt
d)
rupture
48.
to send out rocks, ash, lava in a sudden explosion; to happen or begin suddenly and violently
a)
erupt
b)
disruptive
c)
interrupt
d)
corrupt
49.
a crack or break in something; a break or tear in a part of the body
a)
corrupt
b)
erupt
c)
interrupt
d)
rupture
50.
to cause something to stop happening for a time; to ask questions or say things while another person is speaking
a)
corrupt
b)
erupt
c)
interrupt
d)
rupture
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