Use your knowledge of affixes and roots to match these words with their likely definitions. dormancy, anarchy, excavate, incredulous, paleontologist

Excavate - Paleontologist

Dormancy - incredulous

Explanation:

A Paleontologist is a person who deals in the science of the past geological periods using knowledge from fossils.

To excavate means to dig out or remove.

A Paleontologist would some times, have to excavate fossils for studying.

To be incredulous means to be skeptical or unwilling to accept a supposed truth. To be dormant means to be inactive.

If you are incredulous about a thing, it could bring about dormancy because you want to be careful.