quiz
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Is quiz a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of quiz?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (dated) An odd, puzzling or absurd person or thing.Examples: "I've always heard he was a quiz, says another, or a quoz, or some such word ; but I did not know he was such a book-worm."; "I tell you I am going to the music shop. I trust to your honour. Lord Rawson, I know, will call me a fool for trusting to the honour of a quiz."; "Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch."
2. (dated) One who questions or interrogates; a prying person.
3. (education) A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.Examples: "For many it is hard to envision a scenario where a student completes an online quiz (or test) without using their smartphone, tablet, or other device to look up the answers, or ‘share’ those answers with other students."
verb (English)
1. (transitive, archaic) To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.Examples: "he quizzed unmercifully all the men in the room—"; "'Now, Puddock, back him up—encourage your man,' said Devereux, who took a perverse pleasure in joking; 'tell him to flay the lump, splat him, divide him, and cut him in two pieces—' It was a custom of the corps to quiz Puddock about his cookery […]"
2. (transitive, archaic) To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
3. (transitive) To question (someone) closely, to interrogate.Examples: "He quizzed the suspect for around half an hour."; "This week members return to the chamber to quiz the government on the Zimbabwe election, teacher shortages, backlog of asylum applications and improving the system for dementia diagnosis."
4. (transitive) To instruct (someone) by means of a quiz.
5. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To play with a quiz.
Definition source: Wiktionary