R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: January 12

How much attention were you paying last week?

Salutations, 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. precipitous | 2. romantasy | 3. homunculus | 4. candor | 5. venerable | 6. choreograph

________ Truth shines like gold

________ Magical miniature person

________ Overhasty and rash

________ Perhaps love is the greatest fantasy of all...

________ Worthy of reverence

QUOTE MATCH
Complete each quote using the words from the word bank.

1. precipitousness | 2. choreographer | 3. homunculus | 4. candor | 5. venerable

“Dancers are instruments, like a piano the ________ plays.” —George Balanchine

“The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like ________... Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.” —E. V. Lucas

“Nothing is more noble, nothing more ________ than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.” —Marcus Tullius Cicero

“We ride too high on deceptive notions of power and security and control and then when it all comes crashing down on us the low is made deeper by the high. By its ________ , but also by the humiliation you feel for having failed to see the plummet coming.” ―Lisa Halliday

"The self that does not survive scrutiny is the subject of experience in each present moment — the sense of being an owner or inhabitant of a physical body, which this false self seems to appropriate as a kind of vehicle. Even if you don’t believe such a ________ exists... you almost certainly feel like an internal self in almost every waking moment." ―Sam Harris

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.

VENER- (________) + -ABLE (able to be)

CAND- (________) + -OR (quality)

HOMIN- (________) + -CULUS (small)

CHOR- (________) + -GRAPH (________)

PRE- (before) + CIPIT- (________) + -OUS (full of)

Scroll down for answers. But first, have you ever wondered where the word CANNY comes from?