R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: February 16
Fall in love with your mastery of this week's words!
Oh happy day, word lovers! Sorry for the late release of this week’s quiz. 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. malefactor | 2. rout | 3. synecdoche | 4. stolid | 5. endemic | 6. stymie
_______ Unexcitable or inert
_______ Native or indigenous
_______ To conquer, clobber, or crush
_______ To impede or obstruct
_______ Representational rhetoric
QUOTE MATCH
Complete each quote using the words from the word bank.
1. stymie | 2. stolidity | 3. endemic | 4. malefactors | 5. synecdoche
“The devil is only a convenient myth invented by the real _______ of our world.” —Robert Anton Wilson
“I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their _______, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.” —Toyo Ito
“A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will _______ a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you’ll go out of business.” —Bill Gates
“Every work of art is a _______; there’s no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can’t think of an exception to that.” —Charlie Kaufman
“Poverty arises and persists where corruption is _______ and enterprise is stifled, where basic fairness provided by the rule of law is absent. In such circumstances, poverty is an assault against human dignity, and in that assault lies the natural seed of human anger.” —Colin Powell
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.
ROUT- (_______)
STOL- (_______) + -ID (that which is)
EN- (in) + DEM- (_______) + -IC (pertaining to)
SYN- (with) + EX- (out) + DOC- (_______)
MAL- (_______) + FACT- (_______) + -OR (one who does)
Scroll down for answers. But first, is it too late to explain how cupidity doesn’t actually refer to Cupid?
