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Root Words Lesson 2
Root Words Lesson 2
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2A: 6. Controlled by a
triumvirate
D. group of three people
C. dictator
A. noble person
B. triplet
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2A: 1. reached 0 degrees centigrade
A. freezing
C. 100 degrees Fahrenheit
d. the melting point
B. boiling
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What is the meaning of the root word QUARTUS/QUARUOR mean?
the force
fourth
1/4
four
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What is a
quar
tet?
a piece of women's clothing that sucks in the belly
A set of four musicians
a unit of measurement
four quarters
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2C: 6
trilogy
triumvirate
tripod
dictatorship
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2C: 5
centigrade
quadrant
quatrain
quartet
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2B: 7. 200 years
bicentennial
two centigrades
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What is a
Tri
logy?
The sequel to a really cool movie
A popular series
A group of three literary or musical works that have a theme
Three movies
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What does it mean to
tri
sect something?
To divide into two equal parts
The name given to a set of three triangles
to divide into three parts
To cut open three specimens
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What is a
dec
athalon?
To win ten consecutive events
To cut off a person's head
contest where each person takes part in 10 events
winning a contest by ten points
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What does the word
cen
tigrade mean?
Grading on a 100-point scale
Water boils at 100 degrees and freezes at 0 degrees
A thermometer scale of 100 degrees
I don't math
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What is a
qua
drant?
A section divided by perpendicular lines
A quarter of a circle
An early machine for measuring altitudes
The name of the diamond on a baseball field
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2B: 5. Ten track and field events
decapitate
decathalon
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2A: 3. A lyric
quatrain
A. courtyard
D. a four line verse
B. party of four
C. dance for four
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2B: 1. 3 closely related musical works
B. triumvirate
A. trilogy
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2B: 2. Three political leaders
Triumvirate
Trilogy
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What is the meaning of the root word DECEM?
a fraction
a whole number with a period
Ten
10 centimeters
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2A: 7. applaud the
quartet
D. four performers
B. orchestra
C. chorus
A. dancers
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2C: 7
centigrade
bicentennial
centenary
bilateral
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2C: 4
trisected
decimated
triumvirated
attacked
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2C: 8
quadrant
quartet
trilogy
quatrain
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What is a
tri
umvirate?
Three sequential presidents
The name given to fraternal triplets
A group of three people of authority
To overcome your obstacle
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2C: 1
an awesome play!
quatrain
trilogy
quartet
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What is a
quat
rain?
A stanza or group of four lines of poetry
four equal parts
A group of four, connected freight trains
The last two lines of a poem
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2B: 4. Four lines of poetry
A quatrain
A quartet
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2C: 9
ran them off
saved
slaughtered
decimated
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2A: 2. to
decimate
the population
C. infect
A. slaughter
D. educate
B. increase
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What is the meaning of the root word(s) TRI/TRES?
One
Four
Three
Two
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What does the word
bi
cent
ennial mean?
Happening every 200 years
A one-hundreth anniversary
A robot with two hundred arms
a two-bicycle race
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2A: 4. occur
bicentennially
every 2000 years
c. twice in 100 years
A. every two years
b. every 200 years
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2C: 2.
decapitate
decathalon
triathalon
decimate
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What does it mean to
dec
imate?
To split into ten equal parts
To destroy a large part of something
To kill one in every ten
to reduce a fraction into a number
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2B: 3. Four people playing musical instruments
Quadrant
Quartet
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What is the meaning of the root word CENTUM?
a centimeter
hundred
one hundred pennies
a centipede
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What does
cent
enary mean?
A theological school
A place to bury dead things
a hundred cents
A 100 year period
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2C: 3
quadrant
quatrain
A really cool hat
quartet
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2A: 5. a(n)
centenary
celebration
A. surprise
B. annual
C. one-sided
D. hundreth anniversary
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2B: 6. Scale of 100 degrees
centimeter
centigrade
