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R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: December 1

R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: December 1

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

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R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: December 1
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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:

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