R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: March 1

Roar your mastery of this week's words!

Welcome to March, 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. excise | 2. barbarous | 3. premonition | 4. opalite | 5. pithy | 6. motif

_______ Succinct but full of substance

_______ Inkling, intuition, or anticipation

_______ Concept or central theme

_______ To edit or expunge

_______ Something precious that must be created

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

1. premonitory | 2. pithy | 3. adjacent | 4. barbarism | 5. opalescent

“They say that ‘home is where the heart is.’ I think it is where the house is, and the _______ buildings.” —Emily Dickinson

“_______ sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.” —Denis Diderot

“From _______ to civilization requires a century; from civilization to _______ needs but a day.” —Will Durant

“Everyone has a secret. Like the oyster with its grain of sand, we bury it deep within, coating it with _______ layers, as if that could heal our mortal wound.” —C.W. Gortner

“Though we say that we cannot see the future, its conditions lie all around us... Many aspects of our own contemporary culture might be called _______ shivers: panicky renderings of unreadable messages about the kind of society we are creating.” —Philip A. Kuhn

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.

EX- (out) + CIS- (_______)

MOT- (_______) + -IF (pertaining to)

BARBAR- (_______) + -OUS (full of)

SUPER- (over) + JAC- (_______) + -ENT (being)

PRE- (before) + MON- (_______) + -ITION (act or state)

Scroll down for answers. But first, learn the origins of one of the most addictive defense mechanism of the modern era…