quiz
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(dated)An odd, puzzling or absurd person or thing.
- 2.
(dated)One who questions or interrogates; a prying person.
- 3.
A competition in the answering of questions.
We came second in the pub quiz.
- 4.
(education) A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.
Động từ
verb- 1.
(archaic, transitive)To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
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(archaic, transitive)To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
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(transitive)To question (someone) closely, to interrogate.
He quizzed the suspect for around half an hour.
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(transitive)To instruct (someone) by means of a quiz.
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(obsolete, rare, transitive)To play with a quiz.
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Attested since the 1780s, of origin. * The Century Dictionary suggests it was originally applied to a popular toy, from a dialectal variant of whiz. * The Random House Dictionary suggests the original sense was "odd person" (circa 1780). * Others suggest the meaning "hoax" was original (1796), shifting to the meaning "interrogate" (1847) under the influence of question and inquisitive.