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What's In Your Portmanteau?
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Here's a categorical look at portmanteau words, new words made by blending parts of two other words together, a frankenword if you will. For example, add "motor" to "hotel" and you get "motel". Some questions have an American slant. Enjoy!
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Easy
20 Q
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Polaris101
Sep 10 09
555 plays
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The Sith Academy: Vocabulary Class
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Take on the role of a wannabe Sith apprentice, and begin your trials on the path to darkness. Your challenge is a vocabulary exam, involving the names of past Sith Lords. All questions are strictly vocabulary, no knowledge of "Star Wars" is needed.
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Average
10 Q
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darthrevan89
Feb 01 09
612 plays
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Words Easily Confused
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The English language contains a number of words that sound so similar they are confused very easily. In large part, these are homophones, but this is not always the case. Please partake in this quiz as we sample some of these awkward cases. Good luck!
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Average
10 Q
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thejazzkickazz
Jan 07 05
9165 plays
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Odd Ducks
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Not every duck waddles on land and swims in water. A few are even darn difficult. So… are you going to duck this quiz?
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Tough
10 Q
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uglybird
Jul 13 07
1563 plays
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Witches Are Good at Spell-ing
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Welcome to Star's School of Practical Spell-ing. Can you graduate without turning yourself into a frog, or worse?
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Average
10 Q
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StarStruck60
Jul 14 09
600 plays
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Am I Clumsy, Unlucky or What?
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I am the queen of clumsiness today. I think I should have stayed in bed and I do mean all day!
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Average
10 Q
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funnytrivianna
Nov 06 07
2304 plays
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Am I Clumsy, Unlucky or What? Part Two
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You think my last clumsy episode was unbelievable. Wait until you hear about this one!
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Easy
10 Q
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funnytrivianna
Feb 02 08
2169 plays
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Crossword Words
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Have you ever noticed that crosswords and crossword compilers seem to have their own obscure language? Words that you’d never think of using in everyday conversation appear in crosswords with head-scratching frequency. Here are a few of them!
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Average
10 Q
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NatalieW
Dec 09 03
3468 plays
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Am I Clumsy, Unlucky or What? Part Three!
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Well, you thought I was finished with these stories? I have one more wild adventure to tell you about. For the complete story read the interesting information after the answers.
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Average
10 Q
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funnytrivianna
May 28 08
1056 plays
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More Crossword Words
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More weird words from the obscure language of the crossword compiler. Once again, any dictionary definitions are taken from the Oxford English Dictionary Online, www.oed.com.
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Average
10 Q
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NatalieW
Dec 17 03
2427 plays
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Double sound words yet again.Now don't go "gaga" !
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More dregs from the double sound words that have sneaked into the dictionary. Again you have to sort out the meaning with your usual "razzamatazz".
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Average
10 Q
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Philian
May 25 03
4896 plays
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Meta-Linguistics: Words About Words
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Tests your knowledge of words whose definitions refer to words. Xaosdog attests that each word appearing in this quiz has been accepted as a legitimate English word by at least one major dictionary AND one minor dictionary.
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Difficult
15 Q
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xaosdog
Jun 29 02
1887 plays
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More Bottle for your Wine
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You don't have to know the name of the bottle to enjoy the wine, but hey, why not?
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Tough
10 Q
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sterretjie101
Dec 22 08
624 plays
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Laughter, the Best Medicine
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Laughter is the best medicine as the saying goes, but the average adult only laughs 7 times in a day, let's work on our average! I'll give you some clues and you fill in the blank with the laughter word described.
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Average
10 Q
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Bruyere
Sep 07 01
3948 plays
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Malapropisms - The Pineapple of Word Quizzes
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A character from Sheridan's play 'The Rivals', Mrs Malaprop would misuse words by substituting a similar sounding but wrong word in its place - hence malapropism. In this quiz, select the word that should have been used in place of the 'malapropism'.
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Very Easy
10 Q
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Honggui
Apr 01 08
1842 plays
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Where Did You Get that Hat?
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Heads up! This is a quiz about hats from around the world. Your task is to match the headgear with its country of origin, its history or its wearer.
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Tough
10 Q
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Cymruambyth
Aug 04 09
543 plays
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Blend words again. More unusual combinations.
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Join "smoke" with "fog" and you get "smog". It's sometimes that easy to get a new blend word. But do you always know where the bits come from and what the new word means? Some British - some U.S.A.
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Average
10 Q
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Philian
Jun 07 03
3201 plays
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As Shakespeare Might Have Said...
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Many of the words that were commonly used in Shakespeare's time have become what etymologists call archaisms or antique words. How many of these antique words can you identify correctly?
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Difficult
10 Q
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Cymruambyth
Oct 25 05
1041 plays
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Double sound words return. It's "easy-peasy".
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Just when you thought there could be no more "double-sound" words the following 10 escaped from the depths of the dictionary. Don't tell Lulu !
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Average
10 Q
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Philian
Jun 02 03
5517 plays
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Put the words in the blender. Find strange results
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Some words are created by shoving two other words together and losing some of the bits.The new "blend" words then either join the dictionary or teeter on the edge.Go on - try some "brunch".
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Average
10 Q
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Philian
Jun 04 03
1818 plays
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Double sound words are fun.Come "can-can" with me.
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We love to shorten words but English also has a nice reservoir of words where we have doubled the sound to make an attractive new word. Can you guess the meaning of these double-sound words ?
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Average
10 Q
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Philian
May 12 03
3630 plays
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Strictly Speaking
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I have an uncanny ability for finding the wrong word. Do you? Try this quiz and see.
Words that might need attention will be placed in ALL CAPS.
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Difficult
10 Q
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uglybird
Aug 14 05
2226 plays
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What ends in -ine??
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I've always enjoyed words, and -ine ending words are some of my favourites. Have fun joining me in identifying a few!
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Average
10 Q
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Gandi
Feb 01 09
2442 plays
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Commonly Misused Everyday Words
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As a teacher I have noticed students making the same vocabulary errors again and again. In this quiz, I have focused on common errors in the strict grammatical sense rather than what may be heard colloquially. (British English)
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Average
10 Q
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miss g
Nov 28 03
3927 plays
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Forms of Rulership
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There are many words that deal with forms of rulership and government. Try this quiz and see how many you know of. Enjoy!
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Average
10 Q
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nerthus
Apr 12 01
1251 plays
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I Don’t Like Four Letter Words
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Here’s some four letter words that I just don’t like using. They are words that we do not use around our house. They are just not nice, or decent and downright wrong. Can you guess what these words are that I describe?
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Very Easy
10 Q
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linkan
Feb 20 04
15420 plays
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Words I like
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It's time to share some of my favorite words with the world. Included are some of my "Pet Peeves" for their universal mis-use in modern writing. Definitions are from "Webster's New International Dictionary", unless another source is cited.
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Average
10 Q
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califpete
Dec 03 07
900 plays
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Stretch Your Vocabulary
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It would be a futile effort to try to 'know' all the words in the English language. Yet a regular bit of stretching our competence won't do us any harm. Have a try.
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Tough
10 Q
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flem-ish
Jul 13 02
3555 plays
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English is a Quirky Language
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For those of us who learned English as our primary language, we take a lot of its quirks for granted. Here are some examples of parts of the English language that are in categories of their own.
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Average
10 Q
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superferd
Apr 26 03
6522 plays
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Colour Terms In Browsers
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There is no end of names for shades of colour. In the context of browsers, and in order to avoid vagueness, a whole set of more or less standardised and technically precise colourterms had to be developed. Check if you master that code.
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Average
10 Q
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flem-ish
Sep 02 03
1086 plays
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