Vocabulary Quiz: circ-, circum-

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When blood flows through your veins, it is doing this.

• circumflexing

• circumventing

• making a circuit

• circulating

When you go on a trip, you may do this.

• circumspect

• circumnavigate

• make a circuit

• circumvent

What does electricity flow through?

• circuit

• circlet

• circumference

• circles

If someone is wearing a circular band of flowers on her head, what might it be called?

• circumference

• circuit

• circlet

• circumflex

Name the shape that keeps going around and around without ending.

• circumference

• circlet

• circle

• circuit

If you sail around the world in 80 days, you have ______ the globe.

• circumnavigated

• make a circuit

• circumvented

• circulated

What can you do to almost any bad situation by thinking before doing something?

• circumnavigate

• make a circuit

• circumvent

• get a circumference

The mechanic will do this to the tires on a car.

• circumnavigate

• circle

• circumrotate

• circumflex

What do the prefixes circ- and circum- mean?

• into

• around

• through

• bend