R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: March 22
Revel in your mastery of this week's words!
Greetings, 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. comestible | 2. inadvertent | 3. stipulate | 4. treachery | 5. disconsolate | 6. fortuity
_______ Distraught or dejected
_______ To specify or spell out
_______ Cuisine or chow
_______ Chance or kismet
_______ Unintended or unwitting
QUOTE MATCH
Complete each quote using the words from the word bank.
1. agent | 2. stipulation | 3. inconsolable | 4. inadvertently | 5. treacherous
“_______ people do not last; only memories of their treason last.” —Amit Abraham
“Any time a _______ on love is present, unconditional love is not.” —Molly Friedenfeld
“I tell people that I’ve now done one decent thing in my life. Albeit _______.” —Larry David
“We suffer for the simple reason that suffering is biologically useful. It is nature’s preferred _______ for inspiring change.” —Mark Manson
“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is _______.” —Sydney J. Harris
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.
FORTU- (_______) + -ITY (state of)
COM- (with) + ES- (_______) + -IBLE (able to be)
IN- (not) + AD- (towards) + VERT- (_______) + -ENT (being)
DIS- (away) + CON- (with) + SOLA- (_______) + -ATE (being)
AG- (_______) + -ENT (one who does) + -IC (characterized by)
Scroll down for answers. But first, check out how many useful words are related to sheep, goats, cows, and other ruminants…
