R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: November 10

How much of the English language did you unlock this week?

Salutations, 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.

(Are Sunday quizzes better than Friday quizzes? Inquiring minds want to know.)

WORD MATCH
Match each number of each word to the matching phrase. One word has no matching phrase.

1. egress |  2. brevity |  3. desultory |  4. enfranchise |  5. malapropism |  6. synesthesia

________ A slip of the tongue, irregardless of intent

________ Get your vote and use it

________ One good sense deserves another

________ One way out

________ Unenthusiastic, inconsistent, or random

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

1. synesthesia |  2. egress |  3. desultory |  4. enfranchise |  5. brevity

“________ readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.” —Arthur Conan Doyle

“To reach new areas, you have to get your brain out of its comfort zone. There are various ways to do it, but I believe the easiest is by training yourself in a neurological phenomenon called ________, in which the brain makes unusual associations between things like sounds, colors and emotions.” —Berit Brogaard

“Mr. Roosevelt, this is my principal request--it is almost the last request I shall ever make of anybody. Before you leave the presidential chair, recommend Congress to submit to the Legislatures a Constitutional Amendment which will ________ women, and thus take your place in history with Lincoln, the great emancipator.” —Susan B. Anthony

“When a sentence is made stronger, it usually becomes shorter. Thus, ________ is a by-product of vigor.” —William Strunk, Jr.

“Our ingress into the world was naked and bare;
our progress through the world is trouble and care;
our ________ from the world will be nobody knows where;
but if we do well here we shall do well there.” ―Longfellow

ROOT QUIZ
For each of the following words, fill in the meaning of each prefix, suffix, and base. For a bonus point, define the word.

DE- (down) + SAL- (________) + -TORY (relating to)

E- (out) + GRESS- (________) 

BREV- (________) + -ITY (quality)

SYN- (together) + AESTH- (________) + -ESIA (condition)

EN- (put in) + FRANC- (________) + -ISE (to do)

Scroll down for answers. But first, explore the origin and meaning of the word Byzantine: