R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: January 11
Proclaim your mastery of this week's words
Happy New Year, 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. emanate | 2. hamper | 3. decorous | 4. extraneous | 5. monad | 6. dissonance
_______ Civilized or comely
_______ Discord or discrepancy
_______ An irreducible atom or unit
_______ To hold up, hinder, or hobble
_______ Superfluous or supplementary
QUOTE MATCH
Complete each quote using the words from the word bank.
1. dissonant | 2. monadic | 3. emanation | 4. decorum | 5. hamper
“There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of _______.” —Thorstein Veblen
“Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future but right now. Realize that nothing is too good. Allow absolutely nothing to _______ you or hold you up in any way.” — Eileen Caddy
“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that _______ from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.” —Robert Louis Stevenson
“Suddenly creativity is the popular goal. Ironically, a quality _______with our conventional education process is greatly in demand in adults--and those who survive the system without losing their creative integrity are richly rewarded.” —Marilyn Ferguson
“Reality is not a unique and homogeneous thing; it is immensely diversified, having as many different schemes and patterns as there are different organisms. Every organism is, so to speak, a _______ being. It has a world of its own because it has an experience of its own.” —Ernst Cassirer
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.
MONO- (_______) + -AD (group or unit)
E- (out) + MANA- (_______) + -ATE (make or do)
DIS- (apart) + SON- (_______) + -ANCE (state of)
DEC- (_______) + -OR (quality) + -OUS (full of)
EXTRA- (_______) + -ANEOUS (characterized by)
Scroll down for answers. But first, are you tempted to explore the fascinating yet tragic origin of the word TANTALIZING?
