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Vocabulary from Classical Roots Quiz

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does the Root: Inter(L): mean?

a)

between

b)

outside

c)

Kyla

d)

forever-va!

2.

_______- One who intrudes by meddling or trespassing on the rights of others.

a)
trespasser
b)
interceptor
c)

Interloper

d)
intruder
3.

______-(a.) Very destructive to both sides in a conflict; involving slaughter and carnage. (b.) To introduce material that severely alters to a text or falsifies it.

a)
devastation
b)
annihilation
c)

Interpolate

d)
destruction
4.

_______-(a.) Any period of time when a state is without a ruler or has a provisional government, especially between the region of a sovereign and a successor. (b.) An interval between controlling elements; an interruption in an otherwise continuous function or process

a)
regency
b)
interlude
c)

interregnum

d)
vacancy
5.

What does the Root: Pono, Ponere, Posui, and Positum(L): mean?

a)

"to put"/"to place"

b)

"to eat"/"to indulge"

c)

"to sleep"/"to rest"

d)

"to be"/"to become"

6.

_____-(a.) to insert between parts of something; to interject in a conversation. (b.) to apply pressure or influence; to meddle; to interfere.

a)
interfere
b)
interject
c)

Interpose

d)

intervene

7.

_____-To place side by side

a)

juxtapose

b)
compare
c)
contrast
d)
align
8.

Ok, so the Root: Prope, and Propinquus both mean what?

a)

"near"

b)

"here"

c)

"there"

d)

"Desjah?"

9.

_____-(a.) nearness; proximity. (b.) Kinship

a)
Distance
b)
Relation
c)
Connection
d)

propinquity

10.

______- reconciliation; restoration of cordial relations, especially between two countries

a)

rapprochement

b)
agreement
c)
treaty
d)
negotiation
11.

The Root: Quies, Quietis, Quiesco, Quiescere, Quievi, Quietum, mean what?

a)

Ellay"/"Zana"/"Desjah"/"Kyla"

b)

" "quiet"/"to rest"/"rest"

c)

"activity"/"movement"

d)

"noise" /"disturbance"

12.

_____- At rest; dormant; motionless

a)

quiescent

b)
mobile
c)
dynamic
d)
active
13.

_______- To agree or consent without any objection

a)
disagree
b)
refuse
c)
deny
d)

acquiesce

14.

_______- A mass or service for the repose of departed souls; music, poetry, or other composition for the dead.

a)
Dirge
b)

School

c)
Elegy
d)

requiem

15.

______-Not reciprocal; not given in payment or retired in kind.

a)
unreturned
b)

unrequited

c)
unreciprocate
d)
unpaid
16.

The Root: Trubo, trudere, trusi, trusum: means what?

a)

"to push"

b)

"Ellay"

c)

"to turn"

d)

"be beautiful"

17.

_____-Difficult to understand; complex.

a)
ambiguous
b)
transparent
c)
simple
d)

abstruse

18.

______- To push or thrust out a liquid or malleable substance that retains or solidifies into a predetermined shape

a)
Inject
b)
Mold
c)
Shape
d)
Extrude
19.

______-(a.) to force one's ideas or oneself insistently upon others. (b.) to thrust or push out; to protrude noticeably, often in an undesirable way

a)
impose
b)
propose
c)

obtrude

d)
expose