R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: April 5

Raise your mastery of this week's words!

Happy Easter, 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. caesura | 2. conjugate | 3. penchant | 4. jurisdiction | 5. motley | 6. visionary

_______ Mixed or manifold

_______ Prerogative or purview

_______ An interval or interruption

_______ To couple or compound

_______ Tendency or taste

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

1. meretricious | 2. beleaguered | 3. procure | 4. dichotomy | 5. sullenness

1. motley | 2. pendant | 3. visionary | 4. jurisdiction | 5. conjugation

“A mad person sees what isn’t there; A _______ sees what isn’t there yet.” —Judith Thurman

“The whole of nature is a _______ of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.” —Michael Pollan

“All men are fools, if truth be told, but the ones in _______ are more amusing than ones with crowns.” —George R.R. Martin

“No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her _______.” —Samuel Butler

“As for my next book, I won’t write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear: _______, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.” —Virginia Woolf

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.

CIS- (_______) + -URA (state of)

PENS- (_______) + -ANT (state of)

CON- (with) + JUG- (_______) + -ATE (to make or do)

JURIS- (_______) + DICT- (_______) + -ION (state or act of)

VIS- (_______) + -ION (act or state) + -ARY (pertaining to)

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