Roots2Words Quiz: November 2024

Were you paying attention in October?

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. Showing hostile or aggressive behavior:
(A) rudimentary (B) commensal (C) quintessential (D) belligerent (E) paramount

2. The act or state of release from guilt, obligation, or punishment:
(A) progeny (B) absolution (C) inflection (D) insufficiency (E) contravention

3. To involve someone or something in a conflict, argument, or difficulty:
(A) saunter (B) impend (C) precede (D) grouse (E) embroil

4. Something presumptuous, insolent, or unseemly:
(A) impertinence (B) penitence (C) umbrage (D) wraith (E) indomitability

5. Unexpected and fortuitous:
(A) derogatory (B) serendipitous (C) timorous (D) titular (E) cursory

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

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