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WorksheetsEnglish from the Roots Up, vol. 2, part 2
Total questions: 32
Worksheet time: 17mins
Who has committed EGREGIOUS acts in history?
Zookeepers
George Washington
Thomas Edison
The Nazis
Amphi + bios =
Amphibian: An animal which can live and breathe both in water and on land.
Amphibian: An animal which can live and breathe only in water or on land.
Amphibios: An animal which can live and breathe both in water and on land.
Amphibios: An animal which can live and breathe only in water or on land.
A person might feel AMBIVALENT about this (or these!).
Doing homework
Completing chores
Going on vacation
Reading a good book
Putting on a favorite sweatshirt on a cold day
This Greek word is almost always used as an English prefix. It means well, good, or pleasant.
Bon
Eu
Mal
In
This sickness, originally thought to be caused by bad air, is spread by certain kinds of mosquitos.
Malady
Maleficent
Malapropism
Malaria
EXIT comes from these root words.
E-/ex- + ir.
E-/ex- + ire.
E-/ex- + it.
E-/ex- + ite.
What is the Greek word for chief, principal, primitive?
(a)
A row of arches supported by pillars is called ...
An arcade.
An archway.
A hierarchy.
An arc.
A person who looks/watches carefully might be described using this adjective.
Circular
Circumstantial
Circumspect
Circumscript
The word ENCYCLOPEDIA comes from which Greek word?
Cyclos
Cyklos
Kyclos
Kyklos
An itinerant who walks about might be called ...
A peripatetic
A peristylist
A perimetic
A coach potato
What is theocracy?
The belief in one god.
The study of god(s).
Government where rulers are divinely guided in accordance with laws of one religion.
Government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Which of the following words are NOT used in Europe as a parting wish?
Adieu
Addio
Adio
Adios
Audio
France's Sun King, Louis XIV, believed in this.
The Divine Right of Man
The Divine Right of Kings
The Divining Rod
Divining Soothsayers
Homo sapiens means ...
I'm your man
A human of considerable intelligence
Man as a thinking species
A thinking cave man
Devotion to human welfare
Philanthropy
Humanity
Humanthrophy
Philanhuman
Misanthrope
To attribute humanity to animals or things
Ad hominem
Anthropomorphize
Humanize
Personiphize
Pay homage
A little man or dwarf
Homo sapien
Hombre
Anthropulus
Homunculus
Android
A pop star
Homunculus
Davidson
Diviner
Divine
Diva
This is a boy's name meaning "gift of god."
Dorothy
Theodore
Timothy
Pantheon
The perimeter of a soccer field is ...
The parents sitting on the sideline.
The distance inside the field.
The area inside the field.
The distance around the outside of the field.
These were the unfortunate sons of Gaea, Mother Earth, and Uranus, the Sky.
Sorcerers
Cyclopes
Dwarfs
Nymphs
Historians use this word to indicate their best guess as to when an event may have occurred.
(a)
This is the Latin word for bow, arc.
(a)
The first ranking duke is ...
an archduke
a premier duke
an episkopos
a divine duke
Americans ______ a president every 4 years.
elect, from the Latin e-/ex- (from) and legate (to choose)
elect, from the Latin e-/ex- (from) and legere (to choose)
elect, from the Latin e-/ex- (from) and lectere (to choose)
elect, from the Latin e-/ex- (out of) and ducere (to lead)
elect, from the Latin e-/ex- (beyond) and laborare (to work)
The use of an inappropriate word in place of a correct one.
malediction
malevolence
malapropism
malice
malefactor
This Greek prefix begins the name of a continent and is the basis for western civilization.
(a)
Combine this Latin prefix with SINISTER (L, left) to form an adjective synonymous with clumsy.
(a)
From the Greek, a story or rhyme with opposite statements resulting in nonsense
Amiphibian
Amphora
Amphorism
Amphigory
Absurdity
This phrase uses the word OMNIS in the genitive case.
Omnes currunt.
Tunicae omnis virides sunt.
Sunt palmae omnibus.
Pluvia omnes madefaciebat.
Canes cum omnibus current.
To gather together in a lump or sum
Abominate
Agitate
Aggravate
Aggregate
