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📝 A short test 📝 To test knowledge
to quiz

to quiz

16 2.3
To ask someone questions to see what they know
  • verb
  • /kwɪz/
translation icon : examinar
  • Each week, I quiz my friends on trivia questions to see who knows the most.
  • quiz students

So quiz, I will quiz you and, and this comes up right.

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Examples

  • Still others sifted through their notebooks to find ways to quiz peers in their groups.

    Academic text (2012)

  • So I started quizzing her and these were not hard questions.

  • So let me quiz you in a different way.

  • You want to quiz me on the bones of the hand?

    The Battle of the River Plate (1956)

  • You can then quiz students on 2-3 ways media messages address each question.

    Academic text (2009)

  • Team members may tutor, quiz, and assist in other ways to ensure team success.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The teacher had entered the room, written a theme on the board, and begun quizzing them in turn.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • The king, intrigued by claims of her superior intelligence, orders three of his court scholars to quiz the girl.

    Academic text (1998)

  • Parents reciprocate by quizzing their children on similar content.

    Academic text (2010)

  • After all, my dad had been quizzing me since I was six, and by the time I was 12, I knew everything there was to know about the Dodgers.

    To the New Girl (2020)

Synonyms

to question
vsto quiz
570 1.0

To ask someone questions to get information

is used to check knowledge about a specific subject rather than general information
to test
vsto quiz
469 1.0

To ask questions or give tasks to check someone's knowledge

focuses on using short oral or written prompts to check subject knowledge
to examine
vsto quiz
  • Formal
53 3.1

To ask someone many questions in a formal way to find out facts

is less formal and uses short prompts to check subject knowledge

Compounds

pop quiz
19 3.4

A short surprise test that checks what students learned recently

pub quiz
  • UK
4 3.6

A game in a pub where teams answer general knowledge questions

quiz program
  • US
1 2.7

A television or radio show where people answer questions to win prizes

quiz program
2.8

Software that gives quizzes and marks answers for students

How Intense

to interrogate
  • Formal
142 6.5
to test
469 1.0
to quiz
16 2.3
to question
570 1.0
to ask
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

quiz infinitive
quizzed past
quizzed past participle
quizzing present participle
quizzes third person singular

Etymology

Quiz as a verb comes from the noun quiz and means 'to ask' or 'test' someone's knowledge. Because a quiz is a 'short test', to quiz someone is to give them that quick check of what they know.