Who’s Ready to Test Their Vocab Knowledge?

It’s that time again!

As I walked the dog this morning, the frost on the grass sparkled in the light of the rising sun.
Fall has arrived.
So has cooler weather.
September is almost over…
Which means, time for another quiz!
Test your Word Nerd skills with the questions below.  Those who get all correct answers will earn link love from me, as well as kind acknowledgements in the world of Twitter and Facebook.  Don’t be shy, join in!
Word Nerd Workout
  1. Would you like your daughter’s fifth grade teacher to be salacious or sagacious?  Pick one.
  2. Which of these words comes from a Latin root meaning “story”?
    1. mellifluous
    2. pedantic
    3. confabulation
  3. If a plant has vespertine blooms, that means that its blossoms appear
    1. At evening
    2. When sun hits them
    3. Only in shade

Leave your answers in the comments section; I can’t wait to hear from you.  I hope you learn something new today!
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Julia
Julia Tomiak
I believe in the power of words to improve our lives, and I help people find interesting words to read. Member of SCBWI.

10 Comments

  1. 1. I’d prefer my daughter to be sagacious.
    2. I know it’s not pedantic. I’m pretty sure the answer is not mellifluous. So, confabulation has to be the answer.
    3. I see vespers in the word – has to be in the evening.

    Thanks Julia!

  2. Without looking anything up I am going with sagacious since I know what salacious is and I don’t like it, confabulation because it looks like it has ‘fable’ in it, and in the evening since vespers occur at dusk. All guesses, but I see I am in good company.

  3. I don’t know what sagacious means, but I know what salacious means and I do NOT want my child’s teacher to be salacious!

    I’m guessing this one is confabulation,

    And, I know vespertine, because I read The Vespertine, which is a great YA book by the way. At Evening

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