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examine someone's knowledge of something "The teacher tests us every week","We got quizzed on French irregular verbs" -
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an examination consisting of a few short questions
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A riddle or obscure question; an enigma; a ridiculous hoax. -
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An exercise, or a course of exercises, conducted as a coaching or as an examination. -
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An odd or absurd fellow. -
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To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly. -
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To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions. "He quizzed unmercifully all the men in the room."
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A puzzling question; something designed to puzzle one or make one ridiculous; banter; raillery. -
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One who quizzes. -
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One who or that which is obnoxious to ridicule or quizzing; a queer or ridiculous person or thing. -
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An oral questioning of a student or class by a teacher, conducted with the object of communicating instruction and preparing for some examination: as, the surgery quiz; the practice quiz. [Colloq.] -
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A collection of notes made by a student from a professor's lectures, especially when printed for the use of other students. [Colloq.] -
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A monocular eye-glass, with or without a handle; a quizzing-glass. -
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To puzzle; banter; make sport of by means of puzzling questions, hints, and the like; chaff. -
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To look at through or as through a quizzing-glass; peer at; scrutinize suspiciously. -
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In medicine, to examine (a student) orally or informally, as in a quiz-or question-class. -
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To practise bantering or chaffing; be addicted to teasing. -
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In medicine, to attend oral or informal examinations, as in a quiz-class. -
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A toy, formerly popular, consisting of a small cylinder or wheel grooved to receive a string, by which the wheel is made to wind and unwind itself. Also called bandalore.
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kwiz a riddle or enigma: one who quizzes another: an odd fellow: a monocular eye-glass, often with a handle: -
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to puzzle: to banter or make sport of: to examine narrowly and with an air of mockery -
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to practise derisive joking:—pr.p. quiz′zing; pa.t. and pa.p. quizzed -
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kwiz (coll.) an oral examination of a pupil or class by a teacher
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary It is said that Daly, the manager of a Dublin playhouse, laid a wager that a new word of no meaning should be the common talk and puzzle of the city in twenty-four hours. In consequence of this the letters q u i z, were chalked by him on all the walls of Dublin, with an effect that won the wager. Perhaps, however, originally a variant of whiz, and formerly the name of a popular game
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Origin obscure; doubtless framed from question, or direct from L. quæso, I ask.
Can a tongue-in-cheek quiz reveal your true professional nature. cfo.com
Here's a little troubleshooting quiz for you to think about. rwonline.com
MILLEDGEVILLE — Pop Quiz: When was the last time you've had to deal with a leak. unionrecorder.com
Take our quiz to find out. csmonitor.com
New York's Finger Lakes Quiz. kids.nationalgeographic.com
Now that the Penguins are 17 games into their season, including a 5-2 loss to Philadelphia at the Wachovia Center last night, it might be a good time for a quiz. post-gazette.com
Another quiz to brighten up your gloomy Winnipeg September. innipegfreepress.com
Quiz Style get Out Pen And Paper. ktrh.com
Pediatrics Quiz of the Week. consultantlive.com
Take our ultimate quiz with Miss Happiness herself, Goldie Hawn. oprah.com
Test your grammar 'smarts' with our quiz. csmonitor.com
Yesterday's quiz question answer fire. hms.com
But this quiz will help. esquire.com
Lawmakers quiz officials on risks, upsides to health insurance exchange. greenfieldreporter.com
NaNoWriMo Giveaway (Day 21): The Hero/ Heroine Quiz. ritersdigest.com
Galley’s paper in the chemistry education literature (figure 13) in a quiz early in the second term of the class.35 An O-P bond in ATP is referred to as a "high energy phosphate bond" because: (choose all correct answers.) A.
The role of context and culture in teaching physics: The implication of disciplinary differences
Gregor explicitly describes his loss of points on the quiz as a framing error.
The role of context and culture in teaching physics: The implication of disciplinary differences
The second interview, with Wylie, was three weeks later, after the research team had seen the Gregor interview data, so the interviewer prompted Wylie more directly about the ATP quiz question, in order to compare with Gregor.
Students' Interdisciplinary Reasoning about "High-Energy Bonds" and ATP
On the quiz question, 79% of the class (N=19) selected choice C (breaking the bond releases energy) as a correct answer (whether on its own or along with other answer choices).
Students' Interdisciplinary Reasoning about "High-Energy Bonds" and ATP
They were encouraged to discuss the response with each other, and each test counted for one quiz grade.
Effectiveness of group interaction on conceptual standardized test performance
Sailors have all sorts of queer answers to give to these questions, to quiz the passengers who ask them, and amuse themselves. "Rollo on the Atlantic" by
Hoped they would not quiz him, for he was unhappy enough. "Memoirs of the Court of George IV. 1820-1830 (Vol 1)" by
Does this writer quiz his reader, or, in good faith, give him a needed hint? "Classic French Course in English" by
No one seemed, however, inclined to quiz him. "Old Jack" by
Not that he is very respectful in his manner of proceeding: the following dry quiz on his opponent's logic must have been very cutting, being true. "A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)" by
You have seen me quiz other skaters: you must go and see other skaters quiz me. "Deerbrook" by
Come now, don't quiz a fellow too close. "Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906" by
But they aren't Quiz Kids. "The Armed Forces Officer" by
Next day, Sunday, his friends from Sulby came to quiz and to question. "The Manxman A Novel - 1895" by
Gathered to quiz the floundering bear. "Fables of John Gay" by
The lady held her own - and his -
And PETER left his humble cot
To find a pair of - you know what.
And in the larch woods on the highest boughs
The long-eared owls like grey cats sitting still
Peer down to quiz the passengers below.
We quiz the company and praise the rout;
Are polished, petulant, malicious, sly,
Or what you will, so reputations die.
Observe the Duchess in Venetian lace,
With the red eminence.
Who tippled and danced and laughed,
Are "suddenly taken," and some quite low
With an epidemical illness, you know:
"What!--Zounds!--the cholera?" you quiz;--no--no--
The doctors call it the "Draft."
'That one thing she'd refuse to do for Solomon's mines in fee:
No woman ever will make herself look older than she is.'
I did not answer; but I thought, 'You err there, ancient Quiz.'