Which roots does the eighth grade sheet cover?

The Texas grade 8 set (ast, qui, mand and mend, and the cede family) plus roots from most middle school lists: fid, jud, loqu, mort, viv, greg, frag, flect, pend, cept, belli, cide, phob, morph, poly, crypt, dem, sent, son, vac, ven, and grad. None of them repeats a seventh grade root.

What if my student has never seen the word before?

That is expected. Most of these words are new at this age. The root narrows the meaning and the sentence settles it, so the student ends up with a word they worked out on their own.

Why are some of the wrong answers so close?

Because they share the root. Quiescent and acquiescent both come from qui, and only the rest of the word tells you whether the volcano is resting or giving in. Eighth graders have to read the whole word before they choose.

8th grade Greek and Latin roots

8th grade Greek and Latin roots worksheets

Eighth graders take a new set of roots, none of them used in seventh grade: ast (star), qui (quiet), mand (order), cede (go or yield), fid (trust), mort (death), and about twenty more. The words are rarer, so the root often carries most of the meaning. Students choose the word a sentence needs from three built on the same root.

Free printable PDF worksheet, aligned to Common Core L.8.4.b.

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The kind of sentences you'll get

Circle the letter of the word built from the right root.

After an hour of pleading, Dad finally and let us camp in the yard. tranquilized · acquiesced · disquieted
Answer: acquiesced
The decision about the field trip is still ; the board votes on Monday. dispensed · pending · compensated
By Tuesday morning the floodwaters had begun to from the fields. recede · secede · concede

Every print pulls a new set of sentences at this level, so a make-up test or a second sibling gets a different mix.

What's on an 8th grade sheet

8th grade sheets draw from 87 sentences, 10 to a page. None of these sentences are on 7th grade sheets.

Some of the answers:

astrologerconfidentialviablefragileinsecticideacrophobiaarachnophobiaepidemicsentimentalvacancy

Choose the word. Circle the letter of the word built from the right root. 10 questions per page.

Every version prints on US Letter or A4, with its answer key on the last page.

How to teach this

Keep teaching roots in families, and add one step: ask your student why the two wrong words fail the sentence. Concede, recede, and secede all share cede, and only the sentence says which kind of going it means. Many of these words will be new to an eighth grader, so the root is often the only foothold. A quick sketch of the family (cede means go; con- means together, re- back, se- apart) does more than a definition. Science and history reading pays off fastest, with words like metamorphic, endemic, antebellum, and jurisdiction.

Watch for: A root isn't a prefix; it's the core of the word. Prefixes and suffixes attach to it (in-spect-ion). Knowing one root unlocks a family of words, not just one: port gives transport, export, import, and portable.

Common questions about 8th grade Greek and Latin roots

Which roots does the eighth grade sheet cover?: The Texas grade 8 set (ast, qui, mand and mend, and the cede family) plus roots from most middle school lists: fid, jud, loqu, mort, viv, greg, frag, flect, pend, cept, belli, cide, phob, morph, poly, crypt, dem, sent, son, vac, ven, and grad. None of them repeats a seventh grade root.
What if my student has never seen the word before?: That is expected. Most of these words are new at this age. The root narrows the meaning and the sentence settles it, so the student ends up with a word they worked out on their own.
Why are some of the wrong answers so close?: Because they share the root. Quiescent and acquiescent both come from qui, and only the rest of the word tells you whether the volcano is resting or giving in. Eighth graders have to read the whole word before they choose.

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Aligned to Common Core L.8.4.b. Reviewed by the One more sheet team. Content version 240, updated September 2026.

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