R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: December 28
End the year strong with your mastery of this week's words
Seasons greetings, 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. deportment | 2. polarize | 3. garland | 4. fulsome | 5. unorthodox | 6. neologism
_______ Festive wreath or festoon
_______ Unusual, eccentric, or out of the ordinary
_______ Bearing or behavior
_______ To divide or demarcate
_______ Cloying or copious
QUOTE MATCH
Complete each quote using the words from the word bank.
1. unorthodoxy | 2. fulsome | 3. deport | 4. garlanded | 5. polarizing
“Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets _______ their lunatics.” —Voltaire
“_______ people is a good way to win an election, and also a good way to wreck a country.” —Molly Ivins
“A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a _______ obituary notice as ample reward.” —George Jean Nathan
“The best leaders are apt to be found among those executives who have a strong component of _______ in their characters. Instead of resisting innovation, they symbolize it—and companies cannot grow without innovation.” —David Ogilvy
“When the shine is wearing off and the underlying cracks of a _______ lifestyle become painfully apparent, reality may inexorably take its toll and gruelingly reveal the presence of a blatant and hideous gap of irrelevance and vanity.” —Erik Pevernagie
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.
FUL- (_______) + -SOME (inclined towards)
UN- (not) + ORTHO- (correct) + DOX- (_______)
DE- (from) + PORT- (_______) + -MENT (act or state)
NEO- (new) + LOG- (_______) + -ISM (practice or state)
POL- (_______) + -AR (pertaining to) + -IZE (to make or do)
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