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say it: kwiz
quiz is a noun and verb meaning "an examination consisting of a few short questions". It carries 2 recorded senses.
an examination consisting of a few short questions
examine someone's knowledge of something
“The teacher tests us every week”
“We got quizzed on French irregular verbs”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for quiz come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.