Roots2Words Quiz: January 2024

Have you been paying attention this month?

Saturdays are perfect days for challenging surprises. Surprise—it's time for a pop quiz! Let's see if you've been paying attention over the last month...

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

1. Uncertain, ambiguous, or vague; difficult to understand or describe:
(A) nebulous (B) empirical (C) adroit (D) dyspeptic (E) pugnacious

2. A complete failure or fiasco; a sudden and sometimes violent collapse, breakup, or dispersion:
(A) prognostication (B) traversal (C) effervescence (D) libertine (E) debacle

3. Expressing, showing, or marked by a clear tendency or point of view, often one that others disagree with; strongly biased:
(A) tortuous (B) impalpable (C) concomitant (D) tendentious (E) vapid

4. A small amount or not enough of something; scarcity, insufficiency, or lack:
(A) apricity (B) paucity (C) geodesy (D) libertinism (E) reprobation

5. To enclose, confine, or seclude, as if within a wall or tomb; to imprison:
(A) immure (B) eschew (C) cohere (D) hoodwink (E) abhor

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

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