Grade 8Reading & writingpractice16 questions

Greek and Latin roots

common roots; working out meaning; word families

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Questions

  1. The Greek root "graph" (as in photograph) means what?

    • count
    • measure
    • speak
    • write or draw
    Show answerwrite or draw

  2. The Latin root "aqua" means what?

    • air
    • earth
    • fire
    • water
    Show answerwater

  3. The Greek root "bio", as in biology, means "life". (True or false?)

    Show answerTrue

  4. The Latin root "dict", as in dictate, means what?

    • break
    • build
    • carry
    • say
    Show answersay

  5. The Greek root "phon" in telephone and microphone refers to what? (Answer out loud)

    Show answersound (or voice)

  6. Tele means "far" and scope means "look at". What is a telescope?

    • A tool for hearing far away
    • A tool for measuring distance
    • A tool for seeing far away
    • A tool for writing far away
    Show answerA tool for seeing far away

  7. Which word contains the Latin root "spect", meaning "look"?

    • dictate
    • portable
    • rupture
    • spectator
    Show answerspectator

  8. Anthropos means "human" and logy means "study of". What does anthropology study? (Answer out loud)

    Show answerhumans (people)

  9. The Latin root "bene" in benefactor means "bad". (True or false?)

    Show answerFalse

  10. Mis means "hate" and anthropos means "human". A misanthrope dislikes whom?

    • animals
    • books
    • people
    • water
    Show answerpeople

  11. Which word does NOT belong to the "scrib/script" (write) word family?

    • describe
    • manuscript
    • prescription
    • scrap
    Show answerscrap

  12. Which word is in the same word family as "aquarium"?

    • acrobat
    • aquatic
    • arctic
    • atlas
    Show answeraquatic

  13. Rupture, interrupt and erupt are in the same word family, from a root meaning "break". (True or false?)

    Show answerTrue

  14. Audible, audience and auditorium share which root, and what does it mean? (Answer out loud)

    Show answeraud: to hear

  15. Which word is in the same word family as "vision"?

    • victim
    • village
    • virtue
    • visible
    Show answervisible

  16. The Greek root "auto", as in autograph and automatic, means what?

    • new
    • other
    • same
    • self
    Show answerself

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