Root Review: Auto, Bio, Ject, Log, Dict, & Cred

This is what happened to the basketball player when he got his sixth foul.

• D) projectile

• B) ejected

• C) injected

• D) jettison

Every library has a few of these to help people say words the right way and figure out

what they mean.

• A) dictionaries

• B) dictums

• C) predictions

• D) contradictions

What kind of book are you reading if it’s about a Roman emperor and was written by a

historical researcher named Keith Noslo?

• A) autobiography

• B) biology

• C) biography

• D) biopsy

When someone is in complete control of one's own affairs and self, how do we describe this person?

• a) autograph

• b) autobiography

• c) autonomous

• d) automatic

This person is waiting to be paid back the money that he loaned. He believes that he will

get it back.

• A) credential

• B) incredible

• C) creed

• D) creditor

A friend gives this when he or she offers words of regret after hurting another person's feelings unintentionally.

• apology

• eulogy

• analogy

• logo

Based on your knowledge of roots, what is the closest definition of the word biosphere?

• the zone of planet Earth where there is life

• tending to believe too easily; easily convinced; easily fooled

• writing about a person’s life written by that person

• an object thrown into the air with great force

Based on your knowledge of roots, what is the closest definition of the word projectile?

• the zone of planet Earth where there is life

• tending to believe too easily; easily convinced; easily fooled

• writing about a person’s life written by that person

• an object thrown into the air with great force

Based on your knowledge of roots, what is the closest definition of the word credulous?

• the zone of planet Earth where there is life

• tending to believe too easily; easily convinced; easily fooled

• writing about a person’s life written by that person

• an object thrown into the air with great force

Based on your knowledge of roots, what is the closest definition of the word contradict?

• the zone of planet Earth where there is life

• to speak against; to say the opposite

• writing about a person’s life written by that person

• an object thrown into the air with great force