R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: June 14

Savor your mastery of this week's words!

What’s good, 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. inchoate | 2. cognoscenti | 3. regime | 4. gelid | 5. bellicose | 6. arrest

_______ Administration or order

_______ Intellectuals or aficionados

_______ Combative or quarrelsome

_______ Rudimentary or recently begun

_______ Frosty or frigid

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

1. arresting | 2. regime | 3. cognoscenti | 4. bellicose | 5. inchoately

“Generals, on the average, are far less _______ than journalists or patriotic housewives: They know the horrors of a war and they dislike any break in the routine” —Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

“We know, if only vaguely and _______, that our finest and most memorable experiences may never, and indeed, ultimately will never, happen again. That is why we cherish them so.” —Sheldon Solomon

“It is a slightly _______ notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.” —Bill Bryson

“Allowances can always be made for your friends to disagree with you. Vehement disagreement is healthy. Debate is impossible without it. Infallibility is a sin in any man. All laws can be broken and are. Often. Like when a bumblebee flies or an ancient _______ is toppled.” —Craig Ferguson

“I have long believed the city, the country, indeed the world at large to be run by precisely the wrong kind of people. From the government to the great financial institutions, the peerage to the police force, our lives are controlled without exception by the stupid and greedy, the venal, the rapacious and the undeservedly rich. How much more comfortable would it be if the rulers of the world were not the _______ of the bank balance, the ballot box, the offshore account, but were drawn instead from the ranks of the everyday - honest, kind, stout-hearted, commonplace folk.” —Jonathan Barnes

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.

GEL- (cold) + -ID (_______)

A- (to) + RE- (back) + ST- (_______)

REG- (_______) + -IME (mode or plan)

BELL- (_______) + -IC (characteristic of) + -OSE (full of)

CO- (together) + GNO- (_______) + -ENT (inclined to) + -I (plural)

Scroll down for answers. But first, learn what TINTINNABULATION is the sound of…