Roots2Words Quiz: July 2025

Find out 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. Extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave:
(A) distraught (B) audacious (C) aloof (D) sesquipedalian (E) literal

2. To cause distress, annoyance, or worry:
(A) perturb (B) allocate (C) attenuate (D) flag (E) vex

3. An act of divine care, protection, or fortune:
(A) maven (B) providence (C) credence (D) cadence (E) sojourn

4. Either to authorize and approve or to penalize:
(A) inculcate (B) austere (C) sanction (D) decry (E) matriculate

5. Careful, cautious, or prudent; unwilling to take risks:
(A) errant (B) brusque (C) valiant (D) circumspect (E) contemporaneous

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

“A different language is a different vision of life.” —Federico Fellini