OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 232

quiz

/kwɪz/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
engañar
To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
'Now, Puddock, back him up—encourage your man,' said Devereux, who took a perverse pleasure in joking; 'tell him to flay the lump, splat him, divide him, and cut him in two pieces—…
he quizzed unmercifully all the men in the room—
examinar • interrogar • probar • testear
To question (someone) closely, to interrogate.
He quizzed the suspect for around half an hour.
This week members return to the chamber to quiz the government on the Zimbabwe election, teacher shortages, backlog of asylum applications and improving the system for dementia dia…
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