R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: March 8
Spring forward with your mastery of this week's words!
Howdy ho, 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. turbid | 2. protocol | 3. temerity | 4. disabuse | 5. cull | 6. inflammable
_______ Murky or muddled
_______ Easily ignited or excited
_______ To select or sift
_______ A covenant, code, or custom
_______ Audacity or effrontery
QUOTE MATCH
Complete each quote using the words from the word bank.
1. culling | 2. temerarious | 3. invaluable | 4. protocol | 5. disabused
“Whenever serious and competent people need to get things done in the real world, all considerations of tradition and _______ fly out the window.” —Neal Stephenson
“It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your _______ curiosity and you let yourself die. It’s as simple as that.” –Tove Jansson
“The biggest productivity strategy in the modern world is just getting ruthlessly clear about what it is that you want to do and then _______ everything that doesn’t contribute to it.” —Chris Williamson
“_______ of our illusions by much travel and travail, we awaken one day to find that the sacred center is here and now - in every moment of the journey, everywhere in the world around us, and deep within our own hearts.” —Parker J. Palmer
“To see how little we have striven and to what small purpose: and how often we have been cowardly and hung back, or _______ and rushed unwisely in; and how every day and all day long we have transgressed the law of kindness, it may seem a paradox, but in the bitterness of these discoveries, a certain consolation resides. Life is not designed to minister to a man’s vanity.” —Robert Louis Stevenson
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.
PROTO- (_______) + COL- (glue)
IN- (in) + GEN- (_______) + -OUS (full of)
TURB- (_______) + -ID (that which is)
DIS- (_______) + AB- (off) + USE- (make use of)
CON- (with) + CATENA- (_______) + -ATION (process of)
Scroll down for answers. But first, learn why PHLEGMATIC isn’t actually an insult…
