R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: April 13

Challenge your mastery of this week's words

Mahalo, word lovers! How much of the English language did you unlock this week? Answer the following questions and review the answers on your own or with a friend, teacher, or tutor.

WORD MATCH
Match each number of each word to the matching phrase. One word has no matching phrase.

1. exuberant | 2. augur | 3. ultracrepidarian | 4. tactless | 5. reiterate | 6. compendious

_______ Repeat over and over

_______ Succinct in its summary

_______ To predict or portend

_______ Unrestrained and enthusiastic

_______ Boorish or blunt

QUOTE MATCH
Complete each quote using the words from the word bank.

1. compendium | 2. tact | 3. reiteration | 4. augury | 5. exuberance

“_______ is the art of making a point without making an enemy." —Howard W. Newton

“No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous _______ of the commonplace.” —John Kenneth Galbraith

“You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner _______ that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world" —Sheilah Graham Westbrook

“New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a _______ of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Francisco of the East.” —John Gregory Dunne

“We speak of persons as jovial, as being born under the planet Jupiter or Jove, which was the joyfullest star and the happiest _______ of all. A gloomy person was said to be saturnine, as being born under the planet Saturn, who was considered to make those who owned his influence, and were born when he was in the ascendant, grave and stern as himself.” —Richard Chenevix Trench

ROOT QUIZ
For each of the following words, fill in the meaning of each prefix, suffix, and base. For bonus points, define the word and list other words with the same roots.

TACT- (_______) + -LESS (without)

AUG- (_______) + -UR (one who does)

RE- (again) + ITER- (_______) + -ATE (to do)

COM- (_______) + PEND- (_______) + -IOUS (full of)

ULTRA- (_______) + CREPIDA- (shoe) + -ARIAN (one who does)

Scroll down for answers. But first, learn the somewhat literal definition of the word HOODWINK: