Roots2Words Quiz: March 2024

How many words did you learn last month?

Saturdays are perfect days for retrieval practice. It's time for a pop quiz on last month’s words!

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

1. An inference or opinion based on incomplete information:
(A) verity (B) polemic (C) farce (D) conjecture (E) conclave

2. To nurture or encourage; to raise or bring up with care as a guardian:
(A) gallop (B) subsume (C) foster (D) yearn (E) warmonger

3. Unhappy with or resentful of circumstances or authority figures:
(A) disaffected (B) mulish (C) pretentious (D) rambunctious (E) cosmopolitan

4. To conceal, hide, or feign; to put on a false appearance:
(A) assuage (B) abrogate (C) rescind (D) dissemble (E) exhume

5. Of, pertaining to, occupying, or forming intervening space or interstices:
(A) desolate (B) ignominious (C) interstitial (D) stringent (E) panoptic

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

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