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Quiz about May I Take Your Disorder
Quiz about May I Take Your Disorder

May I Take Your Disorder? Trivia Quiz


Ever get combobulated? Turbed? Gusted? Well den, Dis is da place for you! I was mayed at how many words we use in English that begin with 'dis'. See if you can discover their uses. Enjoy!

A multiple-choice quiz by alexis722. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
alexis722
Time
3 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
353,580
Updated
Mar 08 24
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
636
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Question 1 of 10
1. You never liked that job anyway. Let's face it, you were disgruntled. Did you leave any gruntled workers behind when you left?


Question 2 of 10
2. Here's a subject for an essay: why do some words endear themselves to language users while others pine away from neglect? Discuss! Pick the best antonym for discuss.
Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. The English language can be disconcerting, even to native speakers. Could it also be concerting in contemporary usage?


Question 4 of 10
4. Which of the choices can stand without its 'dis'? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Which word cannot stand without its 'dis'? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Which word means to be at your wits' end? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Disembowel can be used only with its 'dis'. True or False?


Question 8 of 10
8. Which word means uninvolved or not opinionated about a matter? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Which word means to fall into pieces? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. If someone is running around using an idea or expression improperly, you may want to do what? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. You never liked that job anyway. Let's face it, you were disgruntled. Did you leave any gruntled workers behind when you left?

Answer: Yes

Actually, you left several, some gruntled (content) and some, like you, disgruntled (discontent). Of course, one never really hears anyone using gruntled, but perhaps if you drop it in a few places, people will pick it up and begin using it again.
2. Here's a subject for an essay: why do some words endear themselves to language users while others pine away from neglect? Discuss! Pick the best antonym for discuss.

Answer: Avoid

Discuss is simply to talk over with others.
Cuss is another word entirely, a regionalism for curse.
A discus is the heavy object thrown in an Olympic event.
Interpret is giving one's own opinion of a word or statement, whether right or wrong.
3. The English language can be disconcerting, even to native speakers. Could it also be concerting in contemporary usage?

Answer: No

Concerting has become obsolete, if it ever was used much. To bring things into harmony is to concert; when harmony is achieved, things are concerted, but the active verb is no longer used. Harmonize has taken its place.
4. Which of the choices can stand without its 'dis'?

Answer: Disingenuous

Console is used but consolate is not. Consolation can mean to offer sympathy to a bereaved person, or to make amends such as offering a consolation prize.
Disturbance describes an interruption to the normal state of affairs; turbance is not a word (although turbulence describes a disturbance).
Dispensable refers to something that can be done without, but pensable is not a word.
Ingenuous refers to an innocent or childlike state, while disingenuous is the opposite, meaning giving a false appearance of candor.
5. Which word cannot stand without its 'dis'?

Answer: Dishevelled

Discovered is the opposite of covered, hidden, or undiscovered.
Disproportionate is simply not in proportion.
Distrust is to not believe.
Dishevelled is messy or too casual in dress or state, but shevelled is not a word. Dishabille is the French root for dishevelled, 'habiller' meaning to dress.
6. Which word means to be at your wits' end?

Answer: Distraught

Distraught is to be very agitated, highly distressed, or, more severely, insane. Traught is not a word. Distraught comes from middle English, originally from Latin 'distractus'.
Even though you can't mantle anything, you may dismantle it (take it apart).
You can disparage, meaning to speak in a degrading manner about someone or something, but you can't make up for it by paraging.
You can dispense (get rid of or distribute) but you cannot pense (except in French).
7. Disembowel can be used only with its 'dis'. True or False?

Answer: False

Though seldom used, 'embowel' means to enclose something, such as replacing a dislodged organ or unit back to its proper placement.
8. Which word means uninvolved or not opinionated about a matter?

Answer: Disinterested

Disbarred means the same as barred, as in an attorney being disbarred - taken off the bar (field of law).
Distended means stretched out, usually beyond the comfortable limit.
Disambiguated generally means to have ambiguity removed, and retain a single definite interpretation.
Disinterested has come to mean impartial rather than uninterested, and refers to someone who has no stake in the outcome of a decision.
9. Which word means to fall into pieces?

Answer: Disintegrate

To discomfit means to thwart or frustrate.
Disinter is to dig up or uncover something, often used of a cadaver.
Dislocate is used in reference to a limb or part of the body that is out of alignment or broken.
Disintegrate can mean to fall apart, atomise, or break into separate elements.
10. If someone is running around using an idea or expression improperly, you may want to do what?

Answer: Disabuse

To abuse is to mistreat, or use improperly, with many interpretations and degrees. To disabuse is to render a false notion invalid by correcting the error. If you've been abusing a word, you may be disenfranchised from using it anymore! :^0
The dictionary police have bugs everywhere!
Source: Author alexis722

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