AE Active Companion

READING CHAPTER 1 QUIZZES *

Unit 1: Travel

Travel and Technology

VOCAB: add up, genuine, navigate, personalize, potential, route, spare, treasure

PREFIX / SUFFIX / ROOT: off- meaning 'away from' 'out of' or 'not on' (p23)

Unit 2: Fashion

The Color of Fashion

VOCAB: compile, convention, data, forecast, intuition, optimistic, stick, survey

PREFIX / SUFFIX / ROOT: -dic-/-dict- meaning 'to say' 'to tell' or 'to speak' (p31)

Unit 3: Disappearing Animals

Endangered Species

VOCAB: critically, culprit, exploit, imminent, indefinitely, intentional, markedly, overwhelm

PREFIX / SUFFIX / ROOT: en-/em- meaning 'to put into' or 'to cover' (p45)

Unit 4: Big Money

What Does a Million Dollars Buy?

VOCAB: dense, fulfil, in reality, inflation, investment, necessity, property, salary

PREFIX / SUFFIX / ROOT: in-/im-/il-/ir- meaning 'not' or 'the opposite of' (p71)

Unit 5: Celebrations Around the World

Wedding Customs

VOCAB: afford, appropriate, customary, engrave, eternal, fabric, integrate, vice versa

PREFIX / SUFFIX / ROOT: -ant/-ent used to form an ADJ or describing 'someone or something that

performs a specific action' (p77) **

Unit 6: It's a Mystery!

The "Lost World" of South America

VOCAB: altitude, baffle, fictional, inaccessible, remote, speculate, summit, terrain

PREFIX / SUFFIX / ROOT: -spec- (spect/spic) meaning 'to observe' or 'to watch' (p99)

Unit 7: Health and Fitness

Successful Dieting

VOCAB: alternate, fad, be fed up with, go overboard, be loaded with, portion, struggle, veteran

PREFIX / SUFFIX / ROOT: mis- meaning 'wrong' 'ill' or 'not' (p37)

Unit 8: Space & Flight

Human Adaptation to Space

VOCAB: confine, distribute, duration, expedition, exposed, intense, mission, sacrifice

PREFIX / SUFFIX / ROOT: de-/dis- de- meaning 'reduce' 'remove' or 'not'/dis- meaning 'apart' or 'not'

(p139)

Unit 9: The Changing Family

Is an Only Child a Lonely Child?

VOCAB: advocate, circumstance, content, dilemma, negotiate, self-esteem, sibling, stigma

PREFIX / SUFFIX / ROOT: -pater-/-mater-/-juv- meaning 'father'/'mother'/ 'young' (p159)

Unit 10: The Future of Education

Internet Learning: The Future?

VOCAB: distract, entail, erratic, pace, perspective, prestigious, reliable, supplement

PREFIX / SUFFIX / ROOT: -ven-/-vent- meaning 'to come' (p179)

Unit 11: The Mystery of Memory

The Mysteries of Memory Loss

VOCAB: classify, complication, consciously, no matter, reflection, reverse, strikingly, trace

PREFIX / SUFFIX / ROOT: -fic-/-fice- meaning 'to do' or 'to make' (p193)

Unit 12: Comics

The Evolution of Batman

VOCAB: compelling, conflict, embrace, emerge, endure, invincible, patriotic, subsequently

PREFIX / SUFFIX / ROOT: -ize meaning 'to make' (p51) **

* These quizzes focus only on the vocabulary of the first reading of each unit.

** These PREFIX / SUFFIX / ROOT words are NOT located in the unit. Be careful not to overlook them.

The page numbers will help you find them.