R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: June 28
Flaunt your mastery of this week's words!
Oh happy day, 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. incorrigible | 2. fidelity | 3. elastic | 4. vestibule | 5. redound | 6. malinger
_______ To return or reverberate
_______ To shirk or sham
_______ Intractable or irredeemable
_______ Antechamber or entryway
_______ Supple or springy
QUOTE MATCH
Complete each quote using the words from the word bank.
1. redound | 2. vestibule | 3. elasticity | 4. incorrigible | 5. fidelity
“The idealist is _______: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.” —Friedrich Nietzsche
“Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a _______. The grave has a door on its inner side.” —Alexander Maclaren
“The _______ of a dog is a precious gift demanding no less binding moral responsibilities than the friendship of a human being.” —Konrad Lorenz
“There’s something magical about getting the reputation as someone who cares about others more than yourself. It _______(s) to your benefit in countless ways.” —Adam M. Grant
“The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. The trouble with our way of educating is that it does not give _______ to the mind. It casts the brain into a mold. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning, and it lays more stress on memory than observation.” —Thomas A. Edison
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.
FID- (_______) + -ELITY (state of)
VEST- (_______) + -BULUM (place)
RE- (again) + OUND- (_______)
ELAST- (flexible, ductile) + -IC (_______)
IN- (not) + CO- (altogether) + REG- (_______) + -IBLE (able to be)
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