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English Language: Elementary School: Grades 3, 4 and 5 Quiz - Grade 5 Language - Affixes (Questions)

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Greek and Latin affixes and roots help students learn the meanings of words. Students are required to memorize roots and affixes to form new words. However, students can also determine the meanings of words that contain a Greek or Latin root or affix by thinking of another word with that same root or affix. In this quiz, students will determine the meanings of the words based on their Greek or Latin roots or affixes.

1. What does the word below mean?
ASTERISK
[ ] Ability to hear weak sounds
[ ] A small shape of a star
[ ] A skillful person
[ ] A shady tree
2. What does the word below mean?
CIRCUMNAVIGATE
[ ] To be gold in color
[ ] To shout out
[ ] A tool used for cutting
[ ] To sail around
3. What does the word below mean?
DYSTOPIA
[ ] A bad place that is not real
[ ] A creator of energy
[ ] To voice something gracefully
[ ] To last for a long time
4. What does the word below mean?
EXTROVERT
[ ] To carry across
[ ] To have faith in something
[ ] A shy person
[ ] A person who is outgoing
5. What does the word below mean?
FOREBODE
[ ] A bend in one's arm
[ ] To be flowerlike
[ ] To warn about something bad
[ ] To shape into something
6. What does the word below mean?
GEOPONICS
[ ] A billion of something
[ ] The act of growing old
[ ] Agriculture based on the soil
[ ] A message that was written
7. What does the word below mean?
HEMISTITCH
[ ] Half a line of poetry
[ ] Clotting of blood
[ ] A problem with one's liver
[ ] Warmth from the sun
8. What does the word below mean?
EJECT
[ ] To discuss with someone
[ ] To take something in
[ ] To throw something out
[ ] To obey the law
9. What does the word below mean?
MACROECONOMICS
[ ] To have a poor economy
[ ] The overall study of economics
[ ] For the economy to go crazy
[ ] The worst economy in the world
10. What does the word below mean?
MULTITASKING
[ ] To quickly get something done
[ ] To fail to complete a chore
[ ] To do one thing at a time
[ ] To do many things at once
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English Language: Elementary School: Grades 3, 4 and 5 Quiz - Grade 5 Language - Affixes (Answers)
1. What does the word below mean?
ASTERISK
[ ] Ability to hear weak sounds
[x] A small shape of a star
[ ] A skillful person
[ ] A shady tree
Aster refers to stars
2. What does the word below mean?
CIRCUMNAVIGATE
[ ] To be gold in color
[ ] To shout out
[ ] A tool used for cutting
[x] To sail around
An explorer, Magellan, circumnavigated the world
3. What does the word below mean?
DYSTOPIA
[x] A bad place that is not real
[ ] A creator of energy
[ ] To voice something gracefully
[ ] To last for a long time
'Dys' means bad
4. What does the word below mean?
EXTROVERT
[ ] To carry across
[ ] To have faith in something
[ ] A shy person
[x] A person who is outgoing
An extrovert could easily talk to people
5. What does the word below mean?
FOREBODE
[ ] A bend in one's arm
[ ] To be flowerlike
[x] To warn about something bad
[ ] To shape into something
If something forebodes, it warns of danger that is about to come
6. What does the word below mean?
GEOPONICS
[ ] A billion of something
[ ] The act of growing old
[x] Agriculture based on the soil
[ ] A message that was written
'Geo' refers to the earth or soil
7. What does the word below mean?
HEMISTITCH
[x] Half a line of poetry
[ ] Clotting of blood
[ ] A problem with one's liver
[ ] Warmth from the sun
'Hemi' means half
8. What does the word below mean?
EJECT
[ ] To discuss with someone
[ ] To take something in
[x] To throw something out
[ ] To obey the law
When someone is ejected from a game, they are kicked out of it
9. What does the word below mean?
MACROECONOMICS
[ ] To have a poor economy
[x] The overall study of economics
[ ] For the economy to go crazy
[ ] The worst economy in the world
'Macro' refers to large or great
10. What does the word below mean?
MULTITASKING
[ ] To quickly get something done
[ ] To fail to complete a chore
[ ] To do one thing at a time
[x] To do many things at once
'Multi' means many