quiz has definitions from the field of education
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[ noun ] (education) an examination consisting of a few short questions

Used in print

(The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)

One of the roughest was the TV quiz shows , which gave him inferiority_complexes .

Related terms

examination pop_quiz

2
[ verb ] examine someone's knowledge of something

Synonyms

test

Examples

"The teacher tests us every week" "We got quizzed on French irregular verbs"

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