R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: March 30

Test your mastery of this week's words

Good day 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. propagate | 2. capricious | 3. amenable | 4. ablution | 5. mendacity | 6. upbraid

_______ Obliging or easy to manage

_______ Cleanliness is next to godliness

_______ Deceit or deception

_______ To rebuke or reprove

_______ Impulsive or unpredictable

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

1. mendacious | 2. upbraid | 3. propagate | 4. amenable | 5. caprice

"And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be _______ to reason, but only to force." —Aristotle

"People would believe, _______, spread rumors or conspiracy theories in order to protect their own system of denial." —Bassem Youssef

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, _______- just dead wrong. — Russell Baker

"Encourage your friend to despise stout-heartedly those who _______ him because he has sought the shade of retirement and has abdicated his career of honors, and, though he might have attained more, has preferred tranquility to them all." ― Seneca

"Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever _______ struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and the romantic." ―Richard Halliburton

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.

UP- (up) + BRAID- (_______)

MEND- (_______) + -ACITY (state of)

A- (to) + MEN- (_______) + -ABLE (able to be)

AB- (away) + LUT- (_______) + -ION (act or state)

PRO- (forth) + PAG- (_______) + -ATE (to make or do)

Scroll down for answers. But first, learn the legendary history and meaning of the word odyssey.