R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: May 18

Flaunt your mastery of this week's words

G'day, 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. impinge | 2. plebian | 3. harbinger | 4. antediluvian | 5. acclimate | 6. exhaustive

_______ A sign of things to come

_______ Extensive and meticulous

_______ Very, very old or out of date

_______ To intrude or infringe upon

_______ Not nobility

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

1. harbinger | 2. exhausting | 3. acclimatize | 4. deluge | 5. impinge

"A day of worry is more _______ than a week of work." —John Lubbock

"Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is _______." —Horace Mann

"When you resist what happens, your mind begins to race; the same thoughts that _______ upon you are actually created by you." —Dan Millman

"The true _______ of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball." —Bill Veeck

"We have nightmares because our brain is running simulations to put us in jeopardy to see what we'll do or to _______ us to that idea that something bad could happen. It's just how human beings are wired because the entire time we were evolving we had to jump quick or the leopard would get us or whatever it was." —James Cameron

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)

A- (to) + CLIM- (_______) + -ATE (make or do)

EX- (out) + HAUST- (_______) + -IVE (act of)

PLEB- (_______) + -IAN (pertaining to)

IM- (in) + PAG- (_______) + -MENT (act or state)

ANTE- (_______) + DE- (away) + LU- (_______) + -IAN (pertaining to)

Scroll down for answers. But first, find out whether the word TRITE is unoriginal or overused: