R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: February 1
Disseminate your mastery of this week's words!
Happy February, 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. histrionic | 2. supine | 3. transpose | 4. abut | 5. provenance | 6. misprision
_______ To adjoin or border on
_______ Inactive or inert
_______ Contempt or criminal concealment
_______ Inception or origin
_______ Overwrought, exaggerated, or actorly
QUOTE MATCH
Complete each quote using the words from the word bank.
1. transposition | 2. provenance | 3. histrionic | 4. abut | 5. supine
“Petulant, beautiful, roaring and blindingly arctic, winter in Minnesota is the most _______ of seasons.” —Amy Thielen
“They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the _______, secure and negligent.” —Benjamin Franklin
“On the day when crime dons the apparel of innocence—through a curious _______ peculiar to our times—it is innocence that is called upon to justify itself.” —Albert Camus
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have a common _______ in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.” —Cormac McCarthy
“Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry to lay down a precise hexagon? It doesn’t. It’s programmed to chew up wax and spit it out while turning on its axis, and that generates a circle. Put a bunch of bees on the same surface, chewing side-by-side, and the circles _______ against each other—deform each other into hexagons, which just happen to be more efficient for close packing anyway.” —Peter Watts
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.
SUP- (_______) + -INE (state of)
A- (to) + BUT- (_______)
TRANS- (across, over) + POS- (_______)
MIS- (wrong) + PRIS- (_______) + -ION (act or state)
PRO- (forth) + VEN- (_______) + -ANCE (quality or state)
Scroll down for answers. But first, find out if BOMBASTIC is a compliment or not…
