R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: May 31
Expound on your mastery of this week's words!
Hi 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. entail | 2. memorandum | 3. heinous | 4. encyclical | 5. ephemeral | 6. contextualize
_______ Fleeting or fugitive
_______ Papal post
_______ To encompass, impose, or entangle
_______ To parse, ponder, or position
_______ Atrocious or abominable
QUOTE MATCH
Complete each quote using the words from the word bank.
1. ephemeral | 2. memorandum | 3. contextual | 4. entail | 5. heinous
“Real strength _______(s) being considerate and supportive of people’s feelings.” —Mary Kay Ash
“A _______ is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.” —Dean Acheson
“Money can make the most _______ act seem like a sane one. A business decision. A necessary calculation. Evil’s genius is to costume itself as sense.” —Karen Russell
“Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, _______, and subject to chance.” —Arthur Schopenhauer
“The answers one gives to life’s crucial questions are never truly spontaneous; they are the embodiment of years of _______ experience, of the building of patterns in each of our lives that eventually grow to dominate our behavior.” —Caleb Carr
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.
EN- (into) + TAIL- (_______)
MEMOR- (_______) + -ANDUM (thing to be)
EPI- (on) + HEMER- (day) + -AL (_______)
EN- (in) + CYCL- (_______) + -ICAL (pertaining to)
CON- (_______) + TEXT- (_______) + -UAL (pertaining to) + -IZE (to do)
Scroll down for answers. But first, make sure you know what a MALAPROPISM is…
