"Poly" Words Practice

Mrs. Langhorst

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  1. This word describes something that has many colors.
  2. Your answer:


  3. Triangles, hexagons, trapezoids, and octagons are all types of these.
  4. Your answer:


  5. What do you call the machine that measures many basic body functions?
  6. Your answer:


  7. A pyramid or other many-sided 3-D figure is called one of these.
  8. Your answer:


  9. An alien could be ____________ if it can assume many different shapes or forms.
  10. Your answer:


  11. In a polyclinic, they treat only one type of disease.
  12. Your answer:
    TrueFalse


  13. Someone who is monolingual could not also be a polyglot.
  14. Your answer:
    TrueFalse


  15. A human is a polydactyl.
  16. Your answer:
    TrueFalse


  17. If you believe in polytheism, you worship only one god.
  18. Your answer:
    TrueFalse


  19. The word polysyllabic is polysyllabic.
  20. Your answer:
    TrueFalse


  21. Which word means speaking in a robot-like voice with very little expression?
  22. Your answer:
    monosyllabic
    monotone
    polyglot
    monopoly


  23. Which word means a speech given by one person?
  24. Your answer:
    monotone
    polysyllabic
    monologue
    monosyllabic


  25. Which word means to come before something in time or space?
  26. Your answer:
    precede
    preview
    predict
    prejudge


  27. Which word is the antonym for polysyllabic?
  28. Your answer:
    monocle
    monosyllabic
    monotone
    monochrome


  29. Which word means to delay something in time?
  30. Your answer:
    postdate
    postproduction
    postpone
    preview


  31. Which of these events came before the postindustrial period?
  32. Your answer:
    cavemen created the wheel
    first human in space
    invention of cars
    first computer was made


  33. What's the difference between posthumous and postmortem?
  34. Your answer:
    nothing -- they're synonyms
    posthumous is an adjective and postmortem is a noun
    Both A & B
    posthumous means something that happens after death and postmortem is an examination after death


  35. What does p.s. stand for?
  36. Your answer:
    put something
    pretty special
    polysyllabic
    postscript


  37. What does p.m. stand for?
  38. Your answer:
    polymeridian
    postmeridian
    predate
    polydactyl


  39. Which of our "pre" words is also a reading comprehension strategy?
  40. Your answer:
    predate
    precede
    prejudge
    predict



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