BENE Root Word

What does the root "BENE" mean?

• good or well

• to carry

• circle or wheel

• to hear

What does the word BENEFICIAL mean?

• producing good or helpful results or effects

• kind and generous

• not causing death or serious injury; not cancerous

• someone or something that provides help or an advantage or a person who makes or give a gift.

What does the word BENEVOLENT mean?

• kind and generous

• something that produces good or helpful results or effects or that promotes well-being/ useful

• not causing death or serious injury; not cancerous

• producing good or helpful results or effects

What does the word BENIGN mean?

• not causing death or serious injury; not cancerous

• something that produces good or helpful results or effects or that promotes well-being/ useful

• someone or something that provides help or an advantage or a person who makes or give a gift.

• producing good or helpful results or effects

What does the word BENEFIT mean?

• something that produces good or helpful results or effects or that promotes well-being/ useful

• not causing death or serious injury; not cancerous

• kind and generous

• someone or something that provides help or an advantage or a person who makes or give a gift.

What does the word BENEFACTOR mean?

• producing good or helpful results or effects

• kind and generous

• not causing death or serious injury; not cancerous

• someone or something that provides help or an advantage or a person who makes or give a gift.

It is _________________ in many careers to be bilingual.

• beneficial

• benefit

• benevolent

• benefactor

• benign

Ellie was a very _________________ woman, volunteering much of her free time to various charitable causes.

• benevolent

• beneficial

• benefit

• benefactor

• benign

Jackie was relieved that the bump on her leg was _________ and not cancerous. 

• benign

• benevolent

• benefactor

• benefit

• beneficial

It will _________________ you if you practice your multiplication and division facts every night. 

• benefit

• benevolent

• beneficial

• benefactor

• benign