R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: December 14

Delve the depths of your mastery of this week's words

Tally 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. prima donna | 2. delineate | 3. tepid | 4. maximalist | 5. deferment | 6. bemuse

_______ Pause or postponement

_______ A diva or difficult person

_______ To puzzle or preoccupy

_______ Lukewarm or lax

_______ To chart or characterize

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

1. deferred | 2. bemusement | 3. maximally | 4. tepid | 5. delineations

“Individual freedoms are the primary engine by which the pursuit of happiness can be _______ instantiated.” —Gad Saad

“Our world does not need _______ souls. It needs burning hearts, men who know the proper place of moderation.” —Albert Camus

“A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only _______, and we must come back and settle the account at last.” —Joseph Fort Newton

“Every important social movement reconfigures the world in the imagination. What was obscure comes forward, lies are revealed, memory shaken, new _______ drawn over the old maps.” —Susan Griffin

“We experience the externalities of the attention economy in little drips, so we tend to describe them with words of mild _______ like “annoying” or “distracting.” But this is a grave misreading of their nature. In the short term, distractions can keep us from doing the things we want to do. In the longer term, however, they can accumulate and keep us from living the lives we want to live.” —Jenny Odell

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.

TEP- (_______) + -ID (that which is)

BE- (to make) + MUSE- (_______)

DE- (from) + FER- (_______) + -MENT (act or state)

DE- (completely) + LIN- (_______) + -ATE (to make or do)

MAXIM- (_______) + -AL (pertaining to) + -IST (one who does)

Scroll down for answers. But first, learn how lovely the word PULCHRITUDE is…