quiz /kwiz/

1. A set of questions (designed for amusement or entertainment), such as a test on general knowledge or on a special subject
2. A TV or radio programme, or organized event, in which contestants are asked a prepared set of questions
3. An interrogation
4. An oral test (N American)
5. The remaining noun senses are obsolete: an odd-looking person or (Austen) thing
6. A monocle, often with a handle
7. A piece of banter or quiet mockery
8. A mocking look
9. A hoax
10. A person who practises any of these
11. A bandalore

1. To question, interrogate
2. To test (a class, etc) orally (N American)
3. To poke fun at (obsolete)
4. To eye, esp with an air of mockery (obsolete)

To poke fun

quizzˈer noun

quizzˈery noun

quizzˈical adjective

1. Mocking, questioning
2. Mildly perplexed
3. Amusing, comical

quizzicalˈity noun

quizzˈically adverb

quizzificāˈtion noun

Quizzing

quizzˈify transitive verb (obsolete)

To cause to look odd

quizzˈiness noun (rare)

Oddness

• dead certs
• dead-clothes
• dead-colouring
• dead-deal
• dead-deals
• dead-doing
• dead drop
• dead drunk
• dead duck
• dead ducks
• deaded
• deaden
• dead end
• dead-end
• dead ends
• deadened
• deadener
• deadeners
• deadening
• deadenings
• deadens
• deader
• deaders
• deadest
• deadeye