Seatwork vs Quiz - What's the difference?
seatwork | quiz |
(US) schoolwork done by students sitting at their desks during schooltime
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.
* 1803' (published '''1816 ), (Jane Austen), ''(Northanger Abbey) , [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/121/121-h/121-h.htm Chapter 7]
A competition in the answering of questions.
A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.
(archaic) To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
* Thackeray
(archaic) To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
To question closely, to interrogate.
To instruct by means of a quiz.
As nouns the difference between seatwork and quiz
is that seatwork is schoolwork done by students sitting at their desks during schooltime while quiz is something designed to puzzle one or make one ridiculous; banter; raillery.As a verb quiz is
to hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.seatwork
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(-)See also
* chairworkquiz
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(wikipedia quiz)Noun
(quizzes)- (Smart)
- (Thackeray)
- Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch.
- We came second in the pub quiz .
Derived terms
* quiz kid * quizzer * quizzery * quizzical * quizzify * quizzyVerb
(en-verb)- He quizzed unmercifully all the men in the room.