Real understanding of practical English vocabulary doesn’t just make understanding and communication easier–it also supports better grades and test scores. How strong is your vocabulary? Test your knowledge on the most essential words shared by Roots2Words in March 2025:
1. The quality of being correct or straight; moral righteousness or virtue:
(A) entreaty (B) rectitude (C) profundity (D) aspiration (E) monetization
2. Given to sudden, impulsive, and often undesirable or erratic changes of mood or behavior:
(A) capricious (B) mendacious (C) rotund (D) notional (E) transcendental
3. A mixture, blend, or combination:
(A) affinity (B) amalgam (C) neuromyth (D) misadventure (E) ablution
4. To make better or more bearable; to improve, alleviate, or solve:
(A) consign (B) propagate (C) temporize (D) ratify (E) ameliorate
5. Favorable, benevolent, advantageous, or auspicious:
(A) picaresque (B) propitious (C) putative (D) amenable (E) ostensible
Check your answers on the Roots2Words website. If you didn’t get 5 out of 5, be sure to subscribe to the free Word of the Day!
Mike Bergin