Lesson 32 Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes

Miss Hovious stopped to _________________ her neighbor’s garden while out on her morning walk.

• admire

• advance

• ambiguous

• adjacent

When playing board games, you must roll the die to determine how many spaces you must _________________.

• ambiguous

• adjacent

• advance

• admire

The cop asked a straightforward question but received an _________________ answer.

• ambiguous

• advance

• detract

• subtract

What is the meaning of the prefix ambi-?

• both, two

• loud, amplify

• single, one

• with, more

What is the meaning of the prefix ad-?

• add

• more

• to, toward

• close, near

What is the meaning of the root word tract?

• look, see

• opposite, against

• toward, to

• pull, draw

The small car was completely stuck in the snow, the tires unable to get any _________________ on the slippery ground.

• attract

• traction

• detract

• subtract

It takes a lot of work to _________________ a small amount of juice from an orange.

• attract

• subtract

• extract

• admire

If Gerald doesn’t finish all of his chores, his mother will _________________ an appropriate amount from his weekly allowance.

• subtract

• detract

• attract

• ambidextrous

Carl was furious at the ding in his driver’s side door, knowing it would _________________ from the car’s value.

• attract

• extract

• detract

• subtract