Root Words Quiz 20 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍
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📝 Root Words – Quiz 20
1. What does centr mean?.
A) Move.
B) Center.
C) Step.
D) Host.
2. What does the root word necro mean?.
A) Winter.
B) Body.
C) Death.
D) Ice.
3. What punishment did someone in the community receive for a major wrongdoing?.
A) Jail.
B) Death.
C) Released from the community.
D) Community service.
4. The root word for "far" is _____ .
A) Tele.
B) At/show.
C) Phon/phone.
D) Mob/against/mov.
5. The Greek word Phil means:.
A) Love.
B) Light.
C) Laugh.
D) Live.
6. What does "arthr" refer to.
A) The heart.
B) The bones.
C) To fats.
D) The joints.
7. What does the root word bio mean?.
A) Growth.
B) Life.
C) Animal.
D) Plant.
8. Improper.
A) Not proper.
B) Proper again.
C) Proper before.
D) None of above.
9. What is a spectator?.
A) A mean person.
B) Someone who shares.
C) Someone who tells people what to do.
D) Someone who is looking / peeking.
10. The doctor gave me an _____ to help me feel better.
A) Audible.
B) Auditory.
C) Biology.
D) Antibiotic.
11. What does the root word hydro mean?.
A) Technology.
B) Water.
C) Ice.
D) Wind.
12. Patriarch (noun).
A) Group led by women.
B) Group led by dogs.
C) Group led by men.
D) Group led by government.
13. The study of life.
A) Biography.
B) Geology.
C) Geography.
D) Biology.
14. Sym is Greek root word that means-.
A) Together and Same.
B) Together.
C) Time.
D) Same.
15. What does the root word gemma mean?.
A) Time.
B) Gem/ jewel.
C) Space.
D) Gemni.
16. What does the Greek root "man" mean?.
A) Hand.
B) Life.
C) Water.
D) Earth.
17. Phil.
A) Body.
B) Write, draw.
C) Light.
D) Love.
18. Someone or something that is honest and believable is.
A) Credible.
B) Incredulous.
C) Credential.
D) Creed.
19. Gustatory.
A) Relating to the sense of taste.
B) Very talkative.
C) Able to walk.
D) Angry.
20. Name the root word in sadly.
A) Ad.
B) Sad.
C) Ly.
D) Sadly.
21. What does the root word _____ SUB mean?.
A) Greater than.
B) Less than.
C) Under.
D) With; together.
22. What does hydra mean?.
A) Foot.
B) Air.
C) Head.
D) Water.
23. Which Greek root means "star"?.
A) Anti-.
B) Astro-.
C) Bio-.
D) Acro-.
24. Before school = _____ .
A) Preschool.
B) Reschool.
25. Quad means:.
A) One.
B) Ten.
C) Four.
D) Two.