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WorksheetsResilience / prefix & suffix Vocabulary test
Total questions: 33
Worksheet time: 1hrs 11mins
Organize these options into the right categories.
depravity
Posthumous
rampant
Resilience
merge
incredibly
clawed
scour
collaborate
motivation
persist
notorious
Match the following vocabulary.
Resilience
recovering quickly from difficulties
rampant
flourishing or spreading
awarded after death
posthumous
moral corruption: wickedness
depravity
scour
too look through
Two black soldiers have been awarded Medals of Honor for fighting in the Korean War, and 20 earned the same recognition for service in Vietnam. Freddie Stowers, a black veteran of World War I nominated for the medal in 1918, finally received it ___________ from President George Bush in 1991. Black soldiers, including those honored today, received numerous medals for service in World War II, but none had received the highest honor for bravery.
collaboratively
notoriously
posthumously
resiliency
The prefix POST means AFTER. What other words use Post. (a) (b) (c) (d)
Click the word part that has a suffix .
Which word has a Latin Root?
Refugees have been shown to have a remarkable degree of both resistance and _________to mental health difficulties.
resilience
resiliency
scour
depravity
he new airport is a ________between two of the best architects in the country.
posthumous
collaboration
collaborated
merged
Her life was _________for intrigue and perfidy. As a port it was notorious for its smuggling and illicit trade. Two other sons, Rocco and Cristoforo, both of them notorious rakes, were killed in brawls.
Motivation
rampant
Notorious
persisted
She was ________courageous, heroic, though later she became very sick. Secondly, it's incredibly difficult to be objective about something which you're immersed in every waking hour.
persisted
clawed
motivation
incredibly
Match the following Antonyms
Depravity
morality
Rampant
constrained
Scour
abandoned
Persist
surrender
merge
dissolve
Identify the suffix
José became an astronaut because he was a migrant farm worker, not in spite of it. He had a set of abilities like _______, work ethic and the community standing by each other. You carry that in your background and that’s what makes you succeed. It’s not against you, it’s for you
resilience
motivation
incredibly
depravity
Put the words in the correct suffix area.
posthumously
motivated
depraved
scoured
collaborated
incredibly
scourly
collaboration
motivation
depravation
merged
persisted
notoriously
clawed
rampantly
Most people would have been destroyed by the ________acid attack on her. The responsibility for these _______acts lies with the perpetrators and no one else.
depraved
clawed
rampant
posthumously
Match the following synonyms
rampant
uncontrolled
depravity
degradation
resilience
strength
posthumous
postmortem
persisted
keep going
Latin America has produced many baseball greats — and that’s a big win for Major League Baseball. These days, more than a third of MLB players on opening-day lineups hail from outside the continental United States, mainly from Latin America.
What is the best meaning of the phrase "hail from" as it is used in the paragraph
traveled to
come from
arrived in
played for
But those impressive statistics do not (a) capture Clemente’s impact on baseball. A (b) both on and off the field, the highly (c) player (d) prejudicial treatment of Latin American players and also led humanitarian missions. Sadly, in 1972, Clemente died in small-airplane crash en route to help earthquake-ravaged Nicaragua, but his legacy lives on. Each year, the Roberto Clemente Award honors the MLB player who best represents the game through his character, community (e) , and positive contributions.
Identify 5 words that use a suffix
The prefix MIS- means
wrong
bad
to do again
not
What does the prefix pre- mean?
Before
After
Always
Never
What does the prefix un- mean?
Before
Against
Not
More
What prefix means 'against'?
re-
il-
anti-
super-
"She distrusted him after he cheated on her." In this sentence, distrust means:
She does not trust him
She is overly trusts him
She wrongly trusts him
She shouldn't have dated him in the first place.
"She loved her eleventh grade students, but their behavior from day to day was wildly unpredictable." What does unpredictable mean in this sentence?
Her students could see into the future
Her students were always perfectly behaved angels
She was not able to predict how they were going to act each day until she saw them
She liked them as kids, but not as students
