R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: June 29

Deepen your mastery of this week's words

Aloha, 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. decry | 2. allocation | 3. cadence | 4. cosmopolis | 5. valiant | 6. brusque

_______ Discourteously blunt

_______ A important city inhabited by people from many different countries

_______ Gallant or gutsy

_______ A rhythmic rise and fall

_______ To denounce or disparage

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

1. decried | 2. cadence | 3. brusqueness | 4. allocate | 5. valiant

“Nothing is impossible to a _______ heart.” —Henry IV of France

“The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the _______ of a summer day.” —Michael Chabon

“All extraordinary men, who have accomplished great and astonishing actions, have ever been _______ by the world as drunken or insane.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“In your life, there are going to be constant demands for your time and attention. How are you going to decide which of those demands gets resources? The trap many people fall into is to _______ their time to whoever screams loudest, and their talent to whatever offers them the fastest reward. That’s a dangerous way to build a strategy.” —Clayton M. Christensen

“Even when we are established here, New York still seems a place we aspire to. Its life is one thing—streets and hot dogs and _______—and its symbols, the lights across the way, the beckoning skyline, are another. We go on being inspired even when we're most exasperated.” —Adam Gopnik

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.

VAL- (_______) + -ANT (state of)

CAD- (_______) + -ENCE (quality)

MEGALO- (_______) + -POLIS (city)

AL- (to) + LOC- (_______) + -ATION (process of)

SESQUI- (one and a half) + PED- (_______) + -AL (pertaining to) + -IAN (characteristic)

Scroll down for answers. But first, find out the always-timely meaning of the word ZEITGEIST…