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As nouns the difference between appendix and quiz

is that appendix is something attached to something else; an attachment or accompaniment while quiz is quiz, trivia.

appendix

English

(wikipedia appendix)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Something attached to something else; an attachment or accompaniment.
  • *, vol.I, New York 2001, p.244:
    • idleness is an appendix to nobility; they count it a disgrace to work, and spend all their days in sports, recreations, and pastimes […].
  • Specifically, a text added to the end of a book or an article, containing information that is important to but is not the main idea of the main text.
  • (anatomy) The vermiform appendix, an inner organ without known use that can become inflamed.

    • Usage notes

    The correct plural of depends on the circumstances. When referring to the text at the end of a book or article, the plural is usually stated as appendices, although often as appendixes. Either is correct in standard usage. In the sense of the organ, appendixes is the only plural. Compare vacuum, which can pluralize to vacua or vacuums depending on the meaning.

    Derived terms

    * appendical * appendicitis * appendectomy

    quiz

    English

    (wikipedia quiz)

    Noun

    (quizzes)
  • Something designed to puzzle one or make one ridiculous; banter; raillery.
  • One who or that which quizzes.
  • (dated) An odd or absurd person or thing.
    • (Smart)
    (Thackeray)
  • * 1803' (published '''1816 ), (Jane Austen), ''(Northanger Abbey) , [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/121/121-h/121-h.htm Chapter 7]
    • Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch.
  • A competition in the answering of questions.
    • We came second in the pub quiz .
  • A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.

    • Derived terms

    * quiz kid * quizzer * quizzery * quizzical * quizzify * quizzy

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (archaic) To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
  • * Thackeray
    • He quizzed unmercifully all the men in the room.
  • (archaic) To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
  • To question closely, to interrogate.
  • To instruct by means of a quiz.