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quiz

/kwɪz/noun

उच्चारण क्विज़

प्रश्नोत्तरी, क्विज़

Basic word

nounquizzes
  1. 1

    [C]

    a competition or game in which people try to answer questions to test their knowledge

    प्रश्नोत्तरी, क्विज़

    • Radhika's team won the inter-school general knowledge quiz.
    • a TV quiz show
    • The school holds a general knowledge quiz every March.
    + 2 more examples
    • We watched the quiz on television and shouted out the answers.
    • Arjun answered the last question and won the quiz for his team.

    Synonyms test contest competition

  2. 2

    [C] especially North American

    an informal test given to students

    छोटी परीक्षा, लघु परीक्षा

    • a short maths quiz
    • The teacher gave us a ten-minute quiz at the start of the lesson.
    • I scored full marks in the vocabulary quiz.
    + 1 more example
    • There will be a surprise quiz on fractions tomorrow.

    Synonyms test exam

verbquizzes, quizzed, quizzing
  1. 1

    [T] ~ sb (about sb/sth)

    to ask somebody a lot of questions about something

    पूछताछ करना, सवाल-पर-सवाल करना

    • The police quizzed him about his movements that night.
    • The interviewer quizzed the minister about the new tax.
    • Journalists quizzed the captain on his team's poor form.
    + 1 more example
    • My mother quizzed me about where I had been all evening.

    Synonyms question interrogate cross-examine grill

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The plural is quizzes and the verb forms are quizzed and quizzing, with double z (not 'quizes' or 'quized').

इसका plural quizzes है और verb के रूप quizzed और quizzing हैं, जिनमें double z आता है ('quizes' या 'quized' गलत है)।