Root Definitions
Recognizing Roots
Best Word
Break It Down
100

This prefix means good.

What is bene-?

100

The number of roots making up the word microbiology.

What is 3?

100

The word that uses the root pater- and means fatherly. 

What is paternal?

100

The root in legally helps us know this word refers to: 

What is the law? 

200
This root means love.

What is amor?

200

The root in the word eruption.

What is rupt? 

200

The word that uses the root sub- and means underground.

What is subterranean? 

200

The root in malevolent helps us know that the word refers to: 

What is something that is bad or evil? 

300

This prefix means air.

What is aero-?

300

The root in happiness.

What is -ness? 

300

The word that uses the prefix auto- and means a book written by an author about themselves.

What is autobiography? 

300

The root in transportation helps us know that the word refers to carrying something ____________ a space. 

What is across? 

400

This prefix means with or together. 

What is con- or syn?

400

The root that means true.

What is ver-?

400

The word that uses the root circum- and means the distance around a circle. 

What is circumference? 

400

The root in biology refers to: 

What is life? 

500

This root means light.

What is luc- or lum-? 

500

The number of root words in the word antidisestablishmentarianism

What is 5?

500

The word composed of two roots: one meaning true and the other meaning to speak -- giving the word a decoded meaning of "true speech." 

What is verdict? 
500

The root in the work monologue helps you to know that how many people are speaking? 

What is one?