R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: August 10

Explore your mastery of this week's words!

Hidey ho, 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. facsimile | 2. judicious | 3. calumny | 4. occlude | 5. stochastic | 6. comport

_______ To conform, conduct, or carry oneself

_______ Defamation or derogation

_______ To close, clog, or cover

_______ Replica or reproduction

_______ Based on probability or chance

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

1. comportment | 2. stochastic | 3. occlusions | 4. calumny | 5. facsimile

“_______ is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.” —Diane de Poitiers

“Let people speak. Let people disagree. Communicate. Listen. Have high-respect, if not for your opponent, then for your own _______ and conduct as a good listener.” —Bryant H. McGill

“Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no _______ in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire.” —Edmund White

“Inside each of us resides the truth... But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a _______, a distortion." —Garth Stein

“In addition to the often unsatisfactory cards dealt to us by heredity... each of us will, throughout our lives, suffer innumerable encounters with disease, injury, emotional trauma, and personal defeat. These _______ encounters are cumulative, and many of them will even come to shape core parts of our beings.” —Ezra Claytan Daniels

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.

OC- (against) + CLUD- (_______)

FAC- (make or do) + SIMIL- (_______)

COM- (together) + PORT- (_______)

JUD- (_______) + -IC (exhibiting) + -OUS (full of)

STOC- (to guess or aim at) + -ASTIC (_______)

Scroll down for answers. But first, learn the mysterious meaning of the word ENIGMATIC…