Latin & Greek Roots, Book III, Unit 4 Practice

Use your knowledge of the root meaning and context clues to choose the BEST answer to complete each sentence.

The spread of ____________ on social media has led to a decline in public trust in the media.

• formation

• information

• reformation

• misinformation

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Use your knowledge of the root meaning and context clues to choose the BEST answer to complete each sentence.

The company is implementing ___________ to improve employee morale.

• prefigure

• reform

• inept

• effigy

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Use your knowledge of the root meaning and context clues to choose the BEST answer to complete each sentence.

The events of the past week ___________ a dark future for the country.

• figment

• misinform

• dispose

• prefigure

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Use your knowledge of the root meaning and context clues to choose the BEST answer to complete each sentence.

An ________________ of the other team's mascot was burned at the pep rally.

• figment

• effigy

• aptitude

• posit

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5A

CCSS.L.1.5B

CCSS.L.K.5A

Use your knowledge of the root meaning and context clues to choose the BEST answer to complete each sentence.

Rob did not discover his _____________ for politics until he was in college.

• attitude

• adept

• aptitude

• inept

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

Use your knowledge of the root meaning and context clues to choose the BEST answer to complete each sentence.

The new government tried to __________ its ideas onto supporters of the old regime.

• impose

• reform

• inept

• formative

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

Use your knowledge of the root meaning and context clues to choose the BEST answer to complete each sentence.

The pirate captain's impatient _______________ led him to throw many lazy sailors to the sharks.

• posit

• misinformation

• impose

• disposition

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B

Use your knowledge of the root meaning and context clues to choose the BEST answer to complete each sentence.

Try as I might to comfort Alicia, all my words seemed ________ of just plain wrong.

• posit

• inept

• adept

• impose

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4B

CCSS.L.3.2E

Use your knowledge of the root meaning and context clues to choose the BEST answer to complete each sentence.

Were the monsters only a _________ of a feverish brain, or did they really exist?

• pigment

• inept

• figment

• impose

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5C

Use your knowledge of the root meaning and context clues to choose the BEST answer to complete each sentence.

Tyler _________ his belief that all people should be treated fairly.

• figmented

• posited

• imposed

• prefigured

Tags

CCSS.L.4.4B

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.4B

CCSS.L.7.4B

CCSS.L.8.4B