Hello there, 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. metonym | 2. wreak | 3. profuse | 4. abjure | 5. notion | 6. intermediary
_______ Assumption or impression
_______ To recant, retract, or repudiate
_______ To unleash or inflict
_______ Emissary or arbitrator
_______ Exuberant or extravagant
QUOTE MATCH
Complete each quote using the words from the word bank.
1. notional | 2. intermediate | 3. wrack | 4. abjuration | 5. profusion
“Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an _______ state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.” —Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Officially there are no fates worse than death. Unofficially, there is a _______ of such fates. For some people, just living with the thought that they will die is a fate worse than death itself.” —Thomas Ligotti
“I thought that grief would be like a sea of suffering within me, that it would _______ me with its storms and endlessly replenish my tears, but instead it lodges like a heavy stone in my throat.” —Jennifer Saint
“Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely _______ beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses.” —C.S. Lewis
“The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: _______ of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.” —Haile Selassie
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.
PRO- (forth) + FUS- (_______)
NOT- (_______) + -ION (act or state)
META- (_______) + -ONYM (name)
AB- (away from) + JUR- (_______)
INTER- (between) + MED- (_______) + -ARY (one who does)
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