R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: March 15
Feeling lucky about your mastery of this week's words?
Top o’ the morning to you, 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. glib | 2. quandary | 3. exonerate | 4. erroneous | 5. triskaidekaphobia | 6. discourse
_______ False or faulty
_______ To exculpate or absolve
_______ Fluent but facile
_______ A predicament or puzzle
_______ Dialogue or dissertation
QUOTE MATCH
Complete each quote using the words from the word bank.
1. discourse | 2. erroneous | 3. glib | 4. quandary | 5. exonerate
“Nihilism is not an existential _______ but a speculative opportunity.” —Ray Brassier
“Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, _______ a clear man.” —Benjamin Franklin
“It’s fairly easy to convict an innocent man and virtually impossible to _______ one.” —John Grisham
“A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is _______ is a judgment based upon it.” —Bertrand Russell
“Leadership is not magnetic personality, that can just as well be a _______ tongue. It is not “making friends and influencing people”, that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.” —Peter F. Drucker
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.
DIS- (away) + CURS- (_______)
QUA- (_______) + -ARY (pertaining to)
TRI[S]- (_______) + DECA- (_______) + -PHOBIA (fear of)
EX- (out) + ONER- (_______) + -ATE (to make or do)
ERR- (_______) + -ANEOUS (characterized by)
Scroll down for answers. But first, if you observe the annual Wearing of the Green, review your options…
