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. To drive, force or urge; to impart motion to:
(A) convalesce (B) bifurcate (C) bewitch (D) impel (E) rectify
2. Disheartening, disconcerting, or creepy:
(A) fiscal (B) laconic (C) manifold (D) unnerving (E) retrospective
3. Forcible restraint, restriction, or coercion:
(A) duress (B) enormity (C) miscellany (D) nepotism (E) endotherm
4. Ominous, threatening, serious or momentous:
(A) plenary (B) portentous (C) blinkered (D) quotidian (E) stygian
5. To accept or tolerate; to reside, remain, or stay somewhere:
(A) disembark (B) predispose (C) abide (D) exsanguinate (E) amenitize
ANSWERS: 1.D 2.D 3.A 4.B 5.C
—If you didn’t get 5 out of 5, go back and review last month’s words!—



