Roots2Words Quiz: December 2025

Test how many words you *really* learned last month!

Saturdays are perfect days for retrieval practice. It’s time for a pop quiz on last month’s words! Find answers after the graphic…

1. To spread through; to permeate:
(A) acclaim (B) forsake (C) extort (D) pervade (E) refute

2. A source of comfort or relief:
(A) blandishment (B) solace (C) caricature (D) precarity (E) breviloquence

3. Unable to stopped, moved, or persuaded; pitiless and unrelenting:
(A) cogent (B) sinuous (C) inexorable (D) genial (E) saturnine

4. To lessen the courage or resolution of:
(A) disburse (B) pontificate (C) daunt (D) parse (E) synopsize

5. A dissident, rebel, or rule breaker:
(A) travesty (B) tenure (C) iconoclast (D) spendthrift (E) verdure

ANSWERS: 1.D 2.B 3.C 4.C 5.C
—If you didn’t get 5 out of 5, go back and review last month’s words!—