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UNIT 7 GR6 ROOTS AND AFFIXES

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The root metr/meter means...

a)

run

b)

listen

c)

measure

d)

music

2.

The distance through the center of a circle or sphere from one side to the other.

a)

symmetry

b)

optometry

c)

perimeter

d)

diameter

3.

The profession of examining people's eyes to find out if they need glasses or medical treatment.

a)

optometry

b)

barometer

c)

perimeter

d)

diameter

4.

To examine a problem with the aim of coming to a “thorough” “knowledge, understanding” of it.

a)

diameter

b)

diagnose

c)

dialect

d)

dialogue

5.

A sketch or “drawing” of lines “across” a page; (verb) to “draw” a sketch or line figure

a)

diagram

b)

dialogue

c)

diagonal

d)

dialect

6.

Fiendish, evil, wicked; literally, pertaining to the Devil as one who “throws” evil “across” an area

a)

diagnose

b)

diachronic

c)

diabolical

d)

diagram

7.
Lucas lives in Canada, which is in the northern ____________ of Earth.
a)
semiannual
b)
hemisphere
c)
semicircle
d)
semiarid
8.

What does the prefix circ- or circum- mean?

a)

round or around

b)

before

c)

under

d)

again

9.

What does the word circulation mean?

a)

to go around in a system

b)

to go before

c)

to go again

d)

to go in the wrong way

10.

When you go on a trip, you may do this.

a)

circumspect

b)

circumnavigate

c)

make a circuit

d)

circumvent

11.

If someone is wearing a circular band of flowers on her head, what might it be called?

a)

circumference

b)

circlet

c)

circumflex

d)

circumvent

12.

If you sail around the world in 80 days, you have _______the glove.

a)

circumvented

b)

circumnavigated

c)

circumflexed

d)

circumrotated

13.

What can you do to almost any bad situation by thinking before you do something?

a)

circumnavigate

b)

circumvent

c)

circumflex

d)

circuit

14.

ven, vent

a)

to come

b)

to believe

c)

to speak

15.

re-

a)

back

b)

between or among

c)

not, as in wrong

16.

mis-

a)

back

b)

between or among

c)

not, as in wrong

17.

un-

a)

before

b)

not

c)

out

18.

My friend is very _________. She likes to explore new places and try new things.

a)

circumvent

b)

preventive

c)

convenient

d)

adventurous

19.

I went to a ____________ for teachers. People came from all over the state to learn new ways to teach and study new research.

a)

convent

b)

invention

c)

convention

d)

prevent

20.

Halloween is a big _____ for my family. We all dress up and walk around the neighborhood together.

a)

convent

b)

unconventional

c)

intervene

d)

event

21.

Taking vitamins each day is an example of ______ medicine.

a)

invention

b)

preventive

c)

prevention

d)

advent

22.

The prefix fore means

a)

between

b)

before

c)

under

d)

after

23.

The company was trying to stay in the ______________ of their industry by replacing all of their old and obsolete equipment.00

a)

forewarn

b)

foreman

c)

forecast

d)

forefront

24.

A day later the ______________ had turned ominous - heavy rains all weekend and flooding in the metro area.

a)

forecast

b)

forewarn

c)

foretell

d)

foreman

25.

Prefixes are

a)

letters which we add to the end of a word to make a new word with a different meaning

b)

letters which we add to the middle of a word to make a new word with a different meaning

c)

letters which we add to the beginning of a word to make a new word with a different meaning