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Vocabulary from Classical Roots C, Lesson 4

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A prefix that means "in"

a)

re-

b)

in-

c)

eu-

d)

post-

2.

A prefix that means "straight, correct"

a)

ortho-

b)

post-

c)

puer-

d)

innate

3.

1) childlike, unsophisticated,


2) gullible

a)

naive

b)

puerile

c)

nascent

d)

entity

4.

A prefix that means "good, well"

a)

in-

b)

puer-

c)

post-

d)

eu-

5.

Latin roots that mean "to be"

a)

morior, mori, mortuum (roots)

b)

sum, esse, fui, futurum (roots)

c)

nascor, nasci, natum (roots)

d)

thanatos (root)

6.

possessed at birth, inborn

a)

innate

b)

ortho-

c)

puerile

d)

entity

7.

1) an examination to determine the cause of death; an autopsy,


2) (informal) an analysis of something that is over

a)

postmortem

b)

orthopedics

c)

essence

d)

renaissance

8.

Latin root meaning "TO DIE"

a)

pais, paidos (roots)

b)

nascor, nasci, natum (roots)

c)

morior, mori, mortuum (roots)

d)

sum, esse, fui, futurum (roots)

9.

A prefix meaning "after"

a)

in-

b)

ortho-

c)

post-

d)

puer-

10.

1) a person who pays excessive attention to learning rules rather than to understanding,


2) a scholarly show-off

a)

renaissance

b)

nonentity

c)

pedant

d)

euthanasia

11.

A prefix meaning "a male child"

a)

ortho-

b)

post-

c)

eu-

d)

puer-

12.

childish, immature, or silly

a)

puerile

b)

nascent

c)

innate

d)

puer-

13.

A suffix meaning "leader"

a)

nonentity

b)

-gogue

c)

euthanasia

d)

pedant

14.

Latin roots meaning "to be born"

a)

morior, mori, mortuum (roots)

b)

nascor, nasci, natum (roots)

c)

sum, esse, fui, futurum (roots)

d)

pais, paidos (roots)

15.

teacher

a)

pedagogue

b)

moribund

c)

post-

d)

postmortem

16.

the act of painlessly killing a suffering person or animal

a)

nonentity

b)

pedant

c)

euthanasia

d)

orthopedics

17.

1) to shame,


2) to discipline oneself by denial

a)

entity

b)

moribund

c)

ortho-

d)

mortify

18.

child, boy

a)

nascor, nasci, natum (roots)

b)

pais, paidos (roots)

c)

pedagogue

d)

puerile

19.

1) a rebirth, a renewal


2) a revival of humanism in the fourteenth-century to the sixteenth-century Europe

a)

postmortem

b)

orthopedics

c)

essence

d)

renaissance

20.

1) the basic element; the identifying characteristic


2) a substance in concentrated form obtained from a plant or drug


3) a perfume

a)

essence

b)

mortify

c)

renaissance

d)

postmortem

21.

about to die or end

a)

entity

b)

moribund

c)

nascent

d)

orthopedics

22.

death

a)

nascent

b)

entity

c)

thanatos (root)

d)

orthopedics

23.

1) a person or thing of no importance


2) something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination

a)

orthopedics

b)

nonentity

c)

nascent

d)

entity

24.

emerging;


coming into exsistence

a)

nascent

b)

orthopedics

c)

moribund

d)

entity

25.

back, again

a)

re-

b)

moribund

c)

nascent

d)

orthopedics

26.

branch of medicine treating disorders of


the skeletal system and tissues related


to movement

a)

moribund

b)

orthopedics

c)

nascent

d)

entity

27.

something that has a real or independent existence

a)

moribund

b)

nascent

c)

orthopedics

d)

entity