Hello, 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. prostrate | 2. forbearance | 3. salient | 4. dearth | 5. detrimental | 6. pablum
_______ Intellectual pap
_______ Deleterious or damaging
_______ To be supine or submissive
_______ Temperance or tolerance
_______ Prominent, important, or noticeable
QUOTE MATCH
Complete each quote using the words from the word bank.
1. salience | 2. pablum | 3. forbear | 4. prostration | 5. detriment
“_______ to judge, for we are sinners all.” —William Shakespeare
“I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from _______ to fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed.” —Gustave Flaubert
“In general, TV makes us worry about the wrong things. Your brain is better at filtering out media hype when it is reading. Words have less emotional _______ than images. So it’s much healthier to read the newspaper than watch TV.” — Amanda Ripley
“I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at you, summing you up, surely to your _______, with that unnerving, unwinking, appraising stare.” —Joyce Stranger
“There are few things in life worse than a drop-in. The supposed whimsy and fun therein are fabrications only promulgated by uninspired situation comedies, _______ made for the enjoyment of fools. For individuals with actual things to do, it is no different than truncating that person’s life by the duration of the visit.” —A.D. Aliwat
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.
MAN- (_______) + FEST- (seize)
SAL- (to leap) + -IENT (_______)
PRO- (before) + STRAT- (_______)
FOR- (_______) + BEAR- (to bear or carry) + -ANCE (state of)
DE- (away) + TERE- (_______) + -MENT (action) + -AL (pertaining to)
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