Root Words Quiz 3 (25 MCQs) | Global MCQ Practice 🌍
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🧠 Root Words – Quiz 3
1. To hear.
A) Dict.
B) View/at.
C) Aud.
D) Write.
2. What is the name of the punctuation mark when using prefixes or suffixes?.
A) Exclamation point.
B) Question mark.
C) Quotation mark.
D) Hyphen.
3. What does the root aut mean.
A) Self.
B) Cary.
C) End.
D) Foot.
4. Inject, objection, and project come from the root "ject" which means.
A) Feeling, suffering.
B) To throw.
C) Measure.
D) Break, burst.
5. What does the suffix "ness" mean?.
A) State of being .
B) Not.
C) Without.
D) None of above.
6. GUST.
A) True.
B) White.
C) Taste.
D) To dread or shudder.
7. Phon.
A) Solid.
B) Sound.
C) Sequester.
D) Sequence.
8. JECT.
A) To speak.
B) To hear.
C) To send.
D) To throw.
9. If a book is about marine life, which root is likely to be present in its title?.
A) Geo.
B) Alter.
C) Uni.
D) Aqua.
10. When a word has the root word (a) firm means (b).
A) A firm, .
B) Shorten.
C) Likeness.
D) Hydr.
E) Urb.
11. What is the root word of hides?.
A) Hide .
B) Hided.
C) Hides.
D) None of above.
12. Struct.
A) To build.
B) To borrow.
C) To break.
D) None of above.
13. Choose the words that have the root word vac.
A) Transmit.
B) Vacant.
C) Mission.
D) Judge.
14. Which adjective best describes Jonas.
A) Anxious.
B) Scared.
C) Apprehensive.
D) Nervous.
15. Read the sentence below.Cindy felt it was unfair that she got in trouble for breaking the lamp, but her sister didn't. The word unfair means _____ .
A) Breakable.
B) Fair again.
C) Not fair.
D) Before fair.
16. Cent means:.
A) One hundred.
B) One minute.
C) One thousand.
D) One century.
17. The root word PORT means.
A) To carry.
B) To study.
C) To hold.
D) To write.
18. Tele.
A) Far or distance.
B) Small.
C) Close.
D) Middle.
19. Tim's voice was barely audible when he whispered his secret in my left ear. What does the root word "audi" mean in "audible?".
A) Hear or listen.
B) Both sides.
C) Opposite.
D) Water.
20. "auto" means _____ .
A) Self.
B) Small.
C) To move.
D) Life.
21. What is the root word for washes?.
A) Watch.
B) Washed.
C) Wash.
D) Ash.
22. The root word for "self" is _____ .
A) Auto.
B) Tele.
C) Bio.
D) Micro.
23. .
A) Morph.
B) Dys.
C) Everyone.
D) Miso.
24. The Greek root word ge, commonly used in the English prefix "geo", means-.
A) Measure.
B) Earth.
C) Light.
D) Look.
25. Fort.
A) Tent.
B) House.
C) Strength.
D) Muscle.