R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: February 8
Holler your mastery of this week's words!
Happy Super Bowl Sunday, 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. titivate | 2. incessant | 3. picayune | 4. dearth | 5. juncture | 6. refurbish
_______ To revamp, refit, or renew
_______ Crux or crossroad
_______ Trivial or trifling
_______ A scantness or sparsity
_______ Nonstop or perpetual
QUOTE MATCH
Complete each quote using the words from the word bank.
1. dearth | 2. citing | 3. refurbishment | 4. incessant | 5. juncture
“I shall never be ashamed of _______ a bad author if the line is good.” —Seneca
“The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of _______ proximity.” —Ouida
“We must have sinned greatly, at some _______ long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a universe” —John Updike
“The building of a just and peaceful world order... is hampered not by a _______ of ideas, resources, and manpower but by the lack of will on the part of governments to take the required steps.” —Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
“Something must be going on deep in his subconscious, he thought, some kind of redecoration, _______, reupholstering that required a lot of downtime--some shadowy application running in the background, performing unknown operations, consuming huge chunks of psychic RAM.” —Lev Grossman
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.
JUNC- (_______) + -TURE (act or state)
IN- (not) + CES- (_______) + -ANT (tending to)
TID- (_______) + -IVATE (to make or do)
DEAR- (_______) + -TH (state or quality)
CIT- (_______) + -ATION (process of)
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