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From Aim to Zane Trivia Quiz

Begin with A and continue on through Z. Use the clues to find words that begin with successive alphabet letters and end with the AIM or AIN sound, as in BRAIN, CAME, DEIGN, MAIM, and SANE. This type of quiz is more fun if you go FAST!

A multiple-choice quiz by robynraymer. Estimated time: 10 mins.

Author
robynraymer

Time
10 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
379,624

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
25

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
20 / 25

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307

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Question 1 of 25

1. What word--beginning with A and ending with the AIM or AIN sound--means kudos, praise, or recognition?

Answer: (Begins with A and has seven letters.)

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Question 2 of 25

2. What word--beginning with B and ending with the AIM or AIN sound [not spelling]--means "accuse"?

Answer: (Begins with B and has five letters.)

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Question 3 of 25

3. What word--beginning with C and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--is the past-tense of come?

Answer: (Begins with C and has four letters.)

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Question 4 of 25

4. What word--beginning with D and ending with the AIM or AIN sound [not spelling]--means "denigrate, besmirch, or vilify"?

Answer: (Begins with D and has six letters.)

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Question 5 of 25

5. What word--beginning with E and ending with the AIM or AIN sound--means "to blurt, declare, or call out"?

Answer: (Begins with E and has seven letters.)

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Question 6 of 25

6. What word--beginning with F and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--means to pretend or dissemble?

Answer: (Begins with F and has five letters.)

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Question 7 of 25

7. What word--beginning with G and ending with the AIM or AIN sound--fits this clue: A _______ of rice or sand?

Answer: (Begins with G and has five letters.)

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Question 8 of 25

8. What word--beginning with H and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--means benevolent, merciful, or altruistic?

Answer: (Begins with H and has six letters.)

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Question 9 of 25

9. What word--beginning with I and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--means absurd, fatuous, or illogical?

Answer: (Begins with I and has five letters.)

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Question 10 of 25

10. What word--beginning with J and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--fit this clue: _______ Austen or plain _______?

Answer: (Begins with J and has four letters.)

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Question 11 of 25

11. What word--beginning with K and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--fits this clue: Citizen _______?

Answer: (Begins with K and has four letters.)

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Question 12 of 25

12. What word--beginning with L and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--means unable to walk very well?

Answer: (Begins with L and has four letters.)

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Question 13 of 25

13. What word--beginning with M and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--means to disfigure, mangle, or mutilate?

Answer: (Begins with M and has four letters.)

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Question 14 of 25

14. What word--beginning with N and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--means moniker?

Answer: (Begins with N and has four letters.)

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Question 15 of 25

15. What word--beginning with O and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--fits this clue: High-_______ gasoline?

Answer: (Begins with O and has six letters.)

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Question 16 of 25

16. What word--beginning with P and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--means to predetermine or predestine?

Answer: (Begins with P and has nine letters.)

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Question 17 of 25

17. What word--beginning with Q and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--means to give up one's claim to real estate?

Answer: (Begins with Q and has nine letters.)

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Question 18 of 25

18. What word--beginning with R and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--means to rule, command, or dominate?

Answer: (Begins with R and has five letters.)

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Question 19 of 25

19. What word--beginning with S and ending with AIM or AIN--fits this clue: A _______ on someone's character?

Answer: (Begins with S and has five letters.)

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Question 20 of 25

20. What word--beginning with T and ending with AIM or AIN--means landscape, turf, or topography?

Answer: (Begins with T and has seven letters.)

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Question 21 of 25

21. What word--beginning with U and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--means cosmopolitan, sophisticated, or debonair?

Answer: (Begins with U and has six letters.)

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Question 22 of 25

22. What word--beginning with V and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--means "an herb that is also known as verbena"?

Answer: (Begins with V and has seven letters.)

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Question 23 of 25

23. What word--beginning with W and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--means "a poisonous flowering plant, also known as monkshood"?

Answer: (Begins with W and has nine letters.)

24. I'm skipping X and Y. What word begins with Z, ends with the AIN or AIM SOUND, and means "a protein from corn that lacks lysine and tryptophan and is used especially in making textile fibers, plastics, printing inks, coatings, and adhesives and sizes"?

Answer: (Begins with Z and has four letters.)

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Question 25 of 25

25. Back to A. What word begins with A, ends with the AIN or AIM SOUND, and means "to point in the correct direction"?

Answer: (Begins with A and has three letters.)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What word--beginning with A and ending with the AIM or AIN sound--means kudos, praise, or recognition?

Answer: acclaim

Other A words ending with these sounds include aim, abstain, and ascertain. Antonyms for acclaim include censure and condemnation.

2. What word--beginning with B and ending with the AIM or AIN sound [not spelling]--means "accuse"?

Answer: blame

Other B words ending with the AIN sound include bane, brain, bloodstain, and blain (which means "a swelling," as in chilblain). Antonyms for the verb to blame include praise and endorse.

3. What word--beginning with C and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--is the past-tense of come?

Answer: came

The word chamberlain seems like it would end with the AIN sound, but it ends with the EN or IN sound. Its last syllable could rhyme with Ben or sound like Lynn. One antonym for came is went.

4. What word--beginning with D and ending with the AIM or AIN sound [not spelling]--means "denigrate, besmirch, or vilify"?

Answer: defame

Other D words ending with these sounds include dame, Dane, disdain, or detain. Antonyms for the verb to defame include laud and celebrate.

5. What word--beginning with E and ending with the AIM or AIN sound--means "to blurt, declare, or call out"?

Answer: exclaim

Other E words ending with these sounds include entrain, endgame, entertain, and eyestrain. Antonyms for exclaim include conceal or hush up.

6. What word--beginning with F and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--means to pretend or dissemble?

Answer: feign

Other F words ending with these sounds include fain, fame, flame, and filename. Antonyms for "to feign" include "to be honest" or "to act completely openly and sincerely."

7. What word--beginning with G and ending with the AIM or AIN sound--fits this clue: A _______ of rice or sand?

Answer: grain

Other G words ending with these sounds include gain, game, and grosgrain. Grain alcohol, or corn liquor, is a clear liquid distilled at a high ethyl alcohol content.

8. What word--beginning with H and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--means benevolent, merciful, or altruistic?

Answer: humane

Other H words ending with this sound include hydroplane, hurricane, and henbane. Antonyms for humane include cruel, inhuman, and amoral.

9. What word--beginning with I and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--means absurd, fatuous, or illogical?

Answer: inane

Other I words ending with this sound include insane, inhumane, and ingrain. Antonyms for inane include wise, reasonable, and appropriate.

10. What word--beginning with J and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--fit this clue: _______ Austen or plain _______?

Answer: Jane

Other famous Janes include Jane Doe, Jane Eyre, Jane Seymour (third wife of Henry VIII) and Jane of the "Dick and Jane" U.S. elementary school readers of the 1950s.

11. What word--beginning with K and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--fits this clue: Citizen _______?

Answer: Kane

Orson Welles produced, co-authored, directed, and starred in this 1941 film. The movie tells the life story of Charles Foster Kane, a fictional character based upon William Randolph Hearst. "Rosebud!"

12. What word--beginning with L and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--means unable to walk very well?

Answer: lame

L words ending with the AIN sound include lain, lane, and lamebrain. Antonyms for lame include fit, muscular, and sound.

13. What word--beginning with M and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--means to disfigure, mangle, or mutilate?

Answer: maim

M words ending with the AIN sound include main, mane, multigrain, and murrain. The word mountain seems like it would end with this sound, but of course it doesn't. Antonyms for maim include heal and restore.

14. What word--beginning with N and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--means moniker?

Answer: name

Other N words ending with the AIM sound include nickname. Are there any antonyms for name? I don't really think so.

15. What word--beginning with O and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--fits this clue: High-_______ gasoline?

Answer: octane

Other O words ending with the AIN sound include obtain, outgain, and overexplain. An octane is one of 18 isomeric saturated hydrocarbons, some of which are obtained in the distillation and cracking of petroleum.

16. What word--beginning with P and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--means to predetermine or predestine?

Answer: preordain

Other P words ending with the AIN sound include pain, pertain, and plantain. Antonyms for to preordain include "to select at random."

17. What word--beginning with Q and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--means to give up one's claim to real estate?

Answer: quitclaim

Quatrain is the only Q word I could come up with that ends with the AIN sound. One antonym for quitclaim might be "to legally purchase real estate."

18. What word--beginning with R and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--means to rule, command, or dominate?

Answer: reign

Other R words ending with these sounds include rain, rein, restrain, refrain, rattlebrain, and reclaim. One antonym for reign might be "to subject oneself to command or servitude" or "to humble oneself or act slavishly."

19. What word--beginning with S and ending with AIM or AIN--fits this clue: A _______ on someone's character?

Answer: stain

Other S words ending with these sounds include sane, same, sustain, strain, swain, sugarcane, seaplane, surname, and selfsame. Synonyms for the verb to stain include "to bleach."

20. What word--beginning with T and ending with AIM or AIN--means landscape, turf, or topography?

Answer: terrain

Other T words ending with these sounds include tame, train, and twain. Kinds of terrain include mountainous and flat.

21. What word--beginning with U and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--means cosmopolitan, sophisticated, or debonair?

Answer: urbane

Urethane and unchain are other U words that end with the AIN sound. Antonyms for urbane include unsophisticated and jejune.

22. What word--beginning with V and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--means "an herb that is also known as verbena"?

Answer: vervain

The vervain plant, sometimes called verbena, flowers annually. It grows in Europe, North America, and South America. This plant is an herbal remedy that people used in ancient Roman times. Believers in herbal medicine still use it (in tea form) to detoxify the body, cleanse the colon, and even to treat psychological disorders.

23. What word--beginning with W and ending with the AIM or AIN SOUND--means "a poisonous flowering plant, also known as monkshood"?

Answer: wolfsbane

In the 1931 movie "Dracula," Van Helsing instructs the nurse charged with protecting Mina from Count Dracula to protect Mina by placing sprigs of wolfbane around her neck.

Answer: zein

There is also Zane Grey, who was an American author (and dentist!) acclaimed for his popular adventure novels set in the American West. Grey idealized the American frontier, which wasn't really as chock-a-block with heroes as he made it out to be.

25. Back to A. What word begins with A, ends with the AIN or AIM SOUND, and means "to point in the correct direction"?

Answer: aim

Ready, aim, fire! Zane Grey's heroes all possessed perfect aim. One synonym for "to aim" might be "to fire at random or haphazardly."

Source: Author robynraymer

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