Root Words Quiz 1 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍
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🎯 Root Words – Quiz 1
1. My first impulse is to scream when someone shouts, "Boo!" What does the root word "puls" mean in "impulse?".
A) Lead.
B) Drive or push.
C) Believe or trust.
D) Hang or weigh.
2. Which sentence contains the root word of the word "blowing"?.
A) Blow out the candles on your cake.
B) The sky is blue.
C) There is a low chance of rain today.
D) The bird has an injured wing.
3. Bill Gates can be called _____ since he provides money, schools, and hospitals in the poorest of countries.
A) Bending.
B) Bonus.
C) Benevolent.
D) Well living.
4. What does "tox" refer to.
A) Bacteria.
B) Muscle.
C) Blood.
D) Poison.
5. Geo.
A) Earth.
B) Study of.
C) Fear.
D) Water.
6. You.
A) Carry.
B) Death.
C) To look.
D) Against or opposite.
7. Record, writing, or drawing of the Earth.
A) Geography.
B) Biography.
C) Biology.
D) Geology.
8. The root word for "see/watch" is _____ .
A) At/show.
B) Phon/phone.
C) Auto.
D) Scop/scope.
9. "over" is word part, what does it mean?.
A) Over.
B) Under.
C) Above.
D) Opposite.
10. Which word has the root word in it for distance?.
A) Microphone.
B) Automotive.
C) Telescope.
D) Graphical.
11. The root "aqua-" in aquarium means.
A) Water.
B) Unique.
C) Object.
D) Life.
12. What does the root word geo mean?.
A) Earth.
B) Air.
C) End.
D) Wind.
13. What does "heam" refer to.
A) Fats.
B) The heart.
C) Lungs.
D) Blood.
14. Which word means YOUR PERSONAL BELIEFS.
A) Elucidate.
B) Vision.
C) Lucid.
D) Philosophy.
15. Bio-means _____ .
A) Life.
B) Both.
C) Land.
D) All.
16. The Greek word anin means:.
A) Spirit, soul, life.
B) Dead, dying.
C) Laugh, love, light.
D) None of above.
17. Bio means:.
A) Life.
B) Death.
C) Study.
D) Two.
18. Name the root word in retake.
A) Take.
B) To it.
C) More.
D) Re.
19. Identify the root word in aquarium.
A) Aqua .
B) Ium.
C) Common.
D) None of above.
20. The suffix less, like in the word fearless means _____ .
A) Without.
B) With.
C) Full of.
D) In a way.
21. Which word part means "self"?.
A) Auto.
B) Therm.
C) Ind.
D) Less.
22. Meter is Greek root that means-.
A) Measure.
B) Earth.
C) Carry.
D) Time.
23. Life.
A) Bio.
B) Struct.
C) Cent.
D) Geo.
24. Scribe/Script.
A) Hear.
B) Talk.
C) Write.
D) Down.
25. The root word for "life" is _____ .
A) Scop/scope.
B) At/show.
C) Phon/phone.
D) Bio.