Roots2Words Quiz: November 2023

How much did you learn this month?

Saturdays are perfect days for edifying 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. Emergent; developing; just coming into existence:
(A) lucid (B) macabre (C) cerulean (D) chauvinistic (E) nascent

2. Defiance, impudence, or unruliness:
(A) recalcitrance (B) armistice (C) ambience (D) metacognition (E) efflorescence

3. To make clear, to explain or throw light upon :
(A) satiate (B) juxtapose (C) elucidate (D) condole (E) proscribe

4. Comparable in certain respects or similar in some way to something else:
(A) apocryphal (B) analogous (C) precursory (D) adamant (E) haphazard

5. The mental quality of being discerning, sound in judgment, and shrewd:
(A) apostasy (B) sagacity (C) encomium (D) cacophony (E) oenophile

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