R2W WEEKLY QUIZ: November 23

Be thankful for your mastery of this week's words

Oh happy 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. sinuous | 2. caricature | 3. parse | 4. iconoclast | 5. disburse | 6. precarity

_______ Radical, rebel, or wrecker

_______ Insecurity or uncertainty

_______ To give or pay out money

_______ To interpret, audit, or explicate

_______ Parody or pastiche

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

1. blandishments | 2. iconoclasm | 3. disburse | 4. precarious | 5. caricature

“A _______ is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.” —Joseph Conrad

“Freedom is a conquest, always partial, always _______, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.” —Gabriel Marcel

“We can transform reality to the extent that we influence what happens in consciousness and thus free ourselves from the threats and _______ of the outside world.” —Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“Taxes are the flip side of expenditures. The same issues apply on both sides. There are questions of fairness and justice as much in the way you take money away as in the way you _______ it.” —Bruce Babbitt

“In some ways, art is the most terrifying of human inventions. It preserves the right to undermine all the categories. The history of art is the history of _______, the history of some new voice saying that everything you know is wrong.” —Richard Powers

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.

SINU- (_______) + -OUS (full of)

ICON- (image or figure) + CLAS- (_______)

DIS- (away) + SPER- (_______) + -SE (action)

BLAND- (_______) + -ISH (act of) + -MENT (state)

PREC- (_______) + -AR (pertaining to) + -ITY (state of)

Scroll down for answers. But first, prepare to regale the Thanksgiving table with the origin of the word CORNUCOPIA…