Home › Quizzes › Composite Words - 2 (Prefixes)

Composite Words - 2 (Prefixes)

Test your knowledge of English prefixes by identifying words that contain prefixes with specific meanings such as down, under, back, without, not, double, across, excessive, and more.

15 Questions Published
Play Quiz Practise this topic out loud

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The given question is followed by a word which stands for the meaning of a prefix which has been attached to anyone of the words that follow. You are required to select the correct word.

Select the prefix which means “down”.

  1. Distance
  2. Disturb
  3. Detain
  4. Dethrone
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The given question is followed by a word which stands for the meaning of a prefix which has been attached to anyone of the words that follow. You are required to select the correct word.

Select the prefix which means “under”.

  1. Disaster
  2. Hypodermic
  3. Deride
  4. Friable
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The given question is followed by a word which stands for the meaning of a prefix which has been attached to anyone of the words that follow. You are required to select the correct word.

Select the prefix which means “back”.

  1. Withdraw
  2. Beatific
  3. Misnomer
  4. Unguent
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The given question is followed by a word which stands for the meaning of a prefix which has been attached to anyone of the words that follow. You are required to select the correct word.

Select the prefix which means “without”.

  1. Amoral
  2. Bewilder
  3. Docile
  4. Obedient
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The given question is followed by a word which stands for the meaning of a prefix which has been attached to anyone of the words that follow. You are required to select the correct word.

Select the prefix which means “not”.

  1. Ignite
  2. Benign
  3. Ignoble
  4. Brooke
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The given question is followed by a word which stands for the meaning of a prefix which has been attached to anyone of the words that follow. You are required to select the correct word.

Select the prefix which means “double”.

  1. Attitude
  2. Ambiguity
  3. Countenance
  4. Elite
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The given question is followed by a word which stands for the meaning of a prefix which has been attached to anyone of the words that follow. You are required to select the correct word.

Select the prefix which means “interfere”.

  1. Poke
  2. Undulate
  3. Vigorous
  4. Trespass
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The given question is followed by a word which stands for the meaning of a prefix which has been attached to anyone of the words that follow. You are required to select the correct word.

Select the prefix which means “high”.

  1. Uphold
  2. Append
  3. Upland
  4. Amoral
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The given question is followed by a word which stands for the meaning of a prefix which has been attached to anyone of the words that follow. You are required to select the correct word.

Select the prefix which means “across”.

  1. Transmit
  2. Diagram
  3. Parody
  4. Indent
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The given question is followed by a word which stands for the meaning of a prefix which has been attached to anyone of the words that follow. You are required to select the correct word.

Select the prefix which means “excessive”.

  1. Celestial
  2. Bibulous
  3. Irrational
  4. Ultrafashionable
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The given question is followed by a word which stands for the meaning of a prefix which has been attached to anyone of the words that follow. You are required to select the correct word.

Select the prefix which means “in the midst of”.

  1. Gestation
  2. Interval
  3. Provoke
  4. Forsake
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The given question is followed by a word which stands for the meaning of a prefix which has been attached to anyone of the words that follow. You are required to select the correct word.

Select the prefix which means “cause a thing”.

  1. Embellish
  2. Abolish
  3. Blatant
  4. Blaze
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The given question is followed by a word which stands for the meaning of a prefix which has been attached to anyone of the words that follow. You are required to select the correct word.

Select the prefix which means “before”.

  1. Forgo
  2. Fortitude
  3. Feeble
  4. Forereach
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The given question is followed by a word which stands for the meaning of a prefix which has been attached to anyone of the words that follow. You are required to select the correct word.

Select the prefix which means “bad”.

  1. Rogue
  2. Inadvertent
  3. Mishap
  4. Placate
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Directions: The given question is followed by a word which stands for the meaning of a prefix which has been attached to anyone of the words that follow. You are required to select the correct word.

Select the prefix which means “in”.

  1. Endemic
  2. Crescent
  3. Curtail
  4. Receive
← Back to Quizzes