R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: November 2

Solidify 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. nootropic | 2. daunting | 3. pervade | 4. cogent | 5. synopsis | 6. travesty

_______ Disheartening or discouraging

_______ To spread or suffuse

_______ A parody or perversion

_______ Pertinent, penetrating, and powerful

_______ Recap or rundown

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

1. pervasive | 2. cogency | 3. travesty | 4. undaunted | 5. synopsize

“A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be _______.” —Andrew Bernstein

“Politics is _______. Everything is political and the choice to be ‘apolitical’ is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.” —Rebecca Solnit

“Many people experience the _______ of regret in their end days; the realization that nothing held them back, that nothing was in their way, that there is no one to blame, only themselves.” —Steve Maraboli

“We thrive in information-thick worlds because of our marvelous and everyday capacities to select, edit, single out, structure, synthesize, _______, winnow the wheat from the chaff, and separate the sheep from the goats.” —Edward R. Tufte

“Critics of judicial decisions often cite suspected motives of a judge that might bias his or her decision, as if the judge’s motives were relevant to the ___2___ of the judge’s argument for making the decision... In any case, you can’t refute an argument by accusing the arguer of being biased. The bias of the arguer is irrelevant to whether the premises support the conclusion.” —Robert Carroll

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.

PER- (through) + VAD- (_______)

SYN- (together) + OP- (_______) + -SIS (state)

CO- (together) + AG- (_______) + -ENT (state of)

TRA- (across) + VEST- (_______) + -Y (state of)

NOOS- (mind) + TROP- (_______) + -IC (characterized by)

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