R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: June 21
Delve the depths of your mastery of this week's words!
Hola, 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. proprioception | 2. bravado | 3. depose | 4. byzantine | 5. jocular | 6. nullify
_______ Complex or convoluted
_______ Waggish or witty
_______ Bluff or bombast
_______ To abrogate or invalidate
_______ To eject or unseat
QUOTE MATCH
Complete each quote using the words from the word bank.
1. jocularity | 2. byzantine | 3. deposed | 4. nullified | 5. bravado
“Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has _______.” —Barbara Tuchman
“A bully hides his fears with fake _______. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.” —Nathaniel Branden
“Librarians are serious people, seldom given to idle _______. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous number of good books waiting to be read, leaving little time for frivolity.” —Lynn Austin
“Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be _______ should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.” —Franklin D. Roosevelt
“The failure to comprehend a complex world leads to the demand for more and more information, which only further clouds our understanding, revealing more and more complexity that must be accounted for by ever more _______ theories of the world. More information produces not more clarity, but more confusion.” —James Bridle
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.
JOC- (_______) + -ULAR (relating to)
DE- (down) + POS- (_______)
BRAV- (_______) + -ADO (pertaining to)
NULL- (_______) + -IFY (to make or do)
PROPRI- (_______) + CEPT- (_______) + -ION (act or state)
Scroll down for answers. But first, learn what (or who) LEVIATHAN means…
