Roots2Words Quiz: October 2024

Were you paying attention in September?

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. Precise, thorough, and attentive to detail; unwaveringly ethical:
(A) demure (B) itinerant (C) scrupulous (D) cowed (E) onerous

2. To explore or measure the depths of something:
(A) plumb (B) appertain (C) obfuscate (D) rectify (E) prevail

3. Partiality, preference, or proclivity:
(A) epiphany (B) rejoinder (C) opprobrium (D) predilection (E) vacuity

4. Demonstrating very high levels of emotion or enthusiasm:
(A) sheepish (B) phlegmatic (C) devout (D) effusive (E) saturnine

5. To mediate or ponder; to chew over:
(A) chastise (B) ruminate (C) posit (D) extol (E) edify

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

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