Roots2Words Quiz: February 2025

Were you paying attention in January?

Saturdays are perfect days for retrieval practice. It's time for a quiz on last month’s words, with a special focus on the the vocabulary of high stakes tests!

For each of the following five definitions, select the word defined. Answers are at the end of the question set.

1. Open and sincere; informal or unrehearsed:
(A) covert (B) venerable (C) precipitous (D) archetypal (E) candid

2. To increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of; to make worse:
(A) depict (B) log (C) exacerbate (D) choreograph (E) serpentine

3. Fear or dread about an anticipated event; contemplation or understanding:
(A) apprehension (B) pathos (C) denouement (D) compatriot (E) homunculus

4. To read or examine in a thorough or careful way OR to read or skim casually:
(A) kowtow (B) declaim (C) elicit (D) peruse (E) collocate

5. A feeling or state of freedom from punishment, pain, or negative consequences:
(A) iniquity (B) impunity (C) recrudescence (D) discomfiture (E) sophistry

ANSWERS: 1.E 2.C 3.A 4.D 5.B

—If you didn't get 5 out of 5, go back and review last month's words!—