quiz

noun

A competition in the answering of questions.

(education) A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.

(dated) An odd, puzzling or absurd person or thing.

(dated) One who questions or interrogates; a prying person.

verb

(transitive) To question (someone) closely, to interrogate.

(transitive) To instruct (someone) by means of a quiz.

(transitive, archaic) To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.

(transitive, archaic) To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.

(transitive, obsolete, rare) To play with a quiz.

Synonyms for quiz

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