R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: May 11

Celebrate your mastery of this week's words

Howdy, 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. annotate | 2. gainsay | 3. pusillanimous | 4. dulcet | 5. factotum | 6. austerity

_______ Sweet to the senses

_______ Sternness and severity

_______ Very small in spirit

_______ Someone who does it all

_______ To say against

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

1. dulcet | 2. austere | 3. annotations | 4. pusillanimity | 5. gainsaid

"We love peace as we abhor _______, but not peace at any price." —Douglas William Jerrold

"The gambling known as business looks with _______ disfavor upon the business known as gambling.” —Ambrose Bierce

"Colonialism subdues in many _______ guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world safe for democracy." —F. Sionil Jose

"Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must show it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or _______." —William Hazlitt

"I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly as well as daily use thumb them, batter them, wear them out, who fill out all the margins with _______ of many kinds, and who prefer the marks of a fault they have erased to a neat copy full of faults." ―Erasmus

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.

DULC- (_______) + -ET (little)

GAIN- (_______) + SAY- (say, speak)

A- (to) + NOT- (_______) + -ATE (make or do)

FAC- (_______) + TOT- (all) + -UM (state)

PUSILL- (_______) + ANIM- (_______) + -OUS (full of)

Scroll down for answers. But first, learn the unexpected original meaning of the word PLETHORA: