R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: August 24

Elucidate your mastery of this week's words!

Felicitations, 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. proliferation | 2. dissolute | 3. dysania | 4. vacate | 5. implode | 6. ancillary

_______ To explode inward

_______ Propagation or multiplication

_______ Subordinate or subsidiary

_______ Degenerate or debauched

_______ To abandon or annul

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

1. proliferate | 2. ancillary | 3. implosion | 4. dissolution | 5. provident

“There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper; in being both bountiful and _______.” —Phyllis McGinley

“Wrongdoing must be punished. If not, it will _______ until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.” —Terry Goodkind

“Wrestling and acting couldn't be anymore different in terms of what it takes to entertain. Wrestling is explosion, acting is _______. One really screws up the other.” —Rowdy Roddy Piper

“Change always involves a dark night when everything falls apart. Yet if this period of _______ is used to create new meaning, then chaos ends and new order emerges.” —Margaret J. Wheatley

“If literary scholarship and criticism are regarded as activities _______ to literature, then their sole function is to multiply, prolong, and safeguard experiences of good reading. A system which heads us off from abstraction by being centered on literature in operation is what we need.” —C.S. Lewis

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.

IM- (in) + PLOD- (_______)

CONTRA- (against) + VEN- (_______)

DIS- (apart) + SOLU- (_______) + -UTE (state)

VAC- (_______) + -ATE (to make or do)

PROL- (offspring) + FER- (_______) + -ATION (process of)

Scroll down for answers. But first, learn the definition and dangers of the word PARASOCIAL…