R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: December 1

How much of the English language did you unlock this week?

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. concoct | 2. tantalizing | 3. obstinate | 4. buttress | 5. benediction | 6. surfeit

________ Overmuch

________ To prepare or cook up

________ Stubborn in refusal to change

________ So tempting but just out of reach

________ The act or existence of support

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

1. tantalizing | 2. surfeit | 3. buttress | 4. obstinate | 5. concoct

“True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubts often, and changes his mind; the fool is ________, and doubts not; he knows all things but his own ignorance.” —Akhenaton

"All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, ________ source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life’s next adventure." --Rob Brezsny

“It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot ________ a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.” —Edgar Allan Poe

“They are sick that ________ with too much, as they that starve with nothing.” —William Shakespeare

“There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit and to ________ your resolve to make the world a better place.” —Virginia Clinton Kelley

ROOT QUIZ
For each of the following words, fill in the meaning of each prefix, suffix, and base. For a bonus point, define the word.

CON- (together) + COC- (________) + -TION (act or state)

OB- (against) + STIN- (________) + -ATE (inclined to)

BEN- (________) + DICT- (________) + -ION (act or state)

BUT- (________) + -RESS (condition)

SUR- (________) + FEIT- (do)

Scroll down for answers. But first, discover the shockingly high number of words that share a root with that beloved goddess on the mountaintop, Venus: