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quiz

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/kwɪz/ English

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noun

  1. An odd, puzzling or absurd person or thing.
  2. A competition in the answering of questions.“We came second in the pub quiz.”
  3. A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.

verb

  1. To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
  2. To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
  3. To question closely, to interrogate.
  4. To instruct by means of a quiz.

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