R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: April 27

Flaunt your mastery of this week's words

Ahoy, 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. intractable | 2. engulf | 3. rustic | 4. avuncular | 5. divest | 6. paradigm

_______ Prototype or pattern

_______ Unruly, unbending, or inflexible

_______ If uncle was an adjective

_______ To strip or sell off

_______ Swallow up or submerge

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

1. paradigm | 2. divested | 3. rusticity | 4. intractable | 5. gulf

"Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and _______." —Alexander Pope

"It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were _______ of their clothes." ―Henry David Thoreau

"How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide _______, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man." —Johnny Cash

"I have been uncompromising, peppery, _______, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life." —Bette Davis

"In order to change an existing _______, you do not struggle to try and change the problematic model. You create a new model and make the old one obsolete." —Richard Buckminster Fuller

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.

DI- (away) + VEST- (_______)

RUS- (_______) + -TIC (pertaining to)

PER- (_______) + USE- (make use of)

IN- (not) + TRACT- (_______) + -ABLE (able to be)

E- (completely) + LUC- (_______) + -ID (to be) + -ATE (to make)

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