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For questions 1- 8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line.

The Legend of Atlantis

 

The legend of Atlantis has become one of the (1) ... of modern popular culture. Quite literally dozens of books appear every year in the English language alone, each of them promising (2) ... new revelations each of them claiming to have finally solved the riddle of the Lost Continent. Yet in was not always thus. Until the (3) ... of Ignatius Donnelly's Atlantis: the Antediluvian World in 1882, few paid attention to the strange story which had first appeared two thousand years earlier, in Plato's (4) ... dialogues, the Timaeus and Critias. In these documents Plato provides an all too brief description of the (5) ... island, its history and culture, and its final destruction. In Plato’s account, the end of Atlantis is presented as (6) ... of a number of beliefs expounded by the Greek philosopher himself, most important of which was the theory of the cyclic nature of civilizations and the notion of how excessive arrogance is an (7) ... of a civilization's impending collapse. It is true that in the immediate (8) ... of the publication of Plato's story, a good deal of interest was generated.

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[answer="OBSESSIONS" label="OBSESS"]

[answer="DRAMATIC" label="DRAMA"]

[answer="PUBLICATION" label="PUBLIC"]

[answer="POLITICAL" label="POLITICS"]

[answer="MYTHIC" label="MYTH"]

[answer="ILLUSTRATIVE" label="ILLUSTRATE"]

[answer="INDICATOR" label="INDICATE"]

[answer="AFTERMATH" label="AFTER"]

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ANSWER KEYS

 

1)    OBSESSIONS
VERB TO NOUN OBSESS => OBSESSIONS
SUFFIX (-ION) A suffix, appearing in words of Latin origin, denoting action or condition, used in Latin and in English to form nouns from stems of Latin adjectives, verbs and especially past participles: CREATION

 
2)    DRAMATIC
NOUN TO ADJECTIVE DRAMA => DRAMATIC
SUFFIX (-IC) A suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally in Greek and Latin loanwords: PUBLIC

 
3)    PUBLICATION
NOUN TO ADJECTIVE PUBLIC => PUBLICATION
SUFFIX (-TION) a suffix occurring in words of Latin origin, used to form abstract nouns from verbs or stems not identical with verbs, whether as expressing action , or a state, or associated meanings: STARVATION 

 
4)    POLITICAL
NOUN TO ADJECTIVE POLITICS => POLITICAL
SUFFIX (-AL) A suffix with the general sense "of the kind of, pertaining to, having the form or character of" that named by the stem, occurring in loanwords from Latin: NATURAL

 
5)    MYTHIC
NOUN TO ADJECTIVE MYTH => MYTHIC
SUFFIX (-IC) A suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally in Greek and Latin loanwords: PUBLIC 

 
6)    ILLUSTRATIVE
VERB TO ADJECTIVE ILLUSTRATE => ILLUSTRATIVE
SUFFIX (-IVE) A suffix of adjectives (and nouns of adjectival origin) expressing tendency, disposition, function, connection, etc.: DESTRUCTIVE

 
7)    INDICATOR
VERB TO NOUN INDICATE => INDICATOR
SUFFIX (-OR) A suffix forming nouns. A person or thing that does what is expressed by the verb: GENERATOR 

 
8)    AFTERMATH
COMPOUND NOUN AFTER => AFTERMATH
Something that results or follows from an event, especially one of a disastrous or unfortunate nature; consequence.