Replace "oo" with "ic" Trivia Quiz

Answer: look lick

To gaze is to look. Look can also be a noun, as in: Nancy gave Jack a look over her shoulder.

To run the tongue over is to lick. Lick can also be a noun, as in: She gave her ice cream cone a lick.

Answer: kook kick

A crackpot or weirdo is a kook. Some people consider me a kook because of my unconventional ideas and interests.

What you do with a football is kick it. Kick can also be a noun, as in: That has quite a kick. I get a kick out of it.

Answer: nook nick

A niche or alcove is a nook, often described as cozy.

To snitch or swipe something is to nick it, especially in the UK. To nick can also mean to make, often accidentally, a shallow cut, while the noun denotes such a cut. Nick is also a diminutive of the masculine name Nicholas and its variants. Finally, Old Nick is one of many names for the Devil.

Answer: brook brick

A small, picturesque stream is a brook. Brook can also be a given name. The American singer Brook Benton comes to mind.

The earliest known manmade building material is brick. Archaeology confirms that people in the Near East built structures using mud brick as early as 9000 B.C., before the development of pottery. The humble yet revolutionary mud brick was hand formed from a mix of mud, water and straw and then left to bake in the hot Levantine or Mesopotamian sun before being used to construct more or less durable, weather tight homes and other buildings. The famed walls of Jericho were built of mud brick.

Answer: rook rick

A large bird related to the crow and the raven is a rook. "Rook" is also the more common name for the chess piece called a castle. The word can also be a verb meaning to cheat.

Besides a diminutive, most often for Richard (meaning brave ruler), rick can also be a common noun or a verb. As a noun, rick applies to a structure of grain or hay bails, thatched for protection from the elements, to a similar stack of cordwood or to barrels and boxes held in a frame. The verb means to build such a structure.

Answer: took tick

The past tense of 'take' is took.

A small, involuntary movement is a tick. Tick also applies, as both a noun and a verb, to the motion of a clock's hands and, from that, to the passage of time.

"The clock will tick away the hours one by one
And then the time will come when all my waiting's done
The time when you return and find me here and run
Straight to my waiting arms"

From the song "I will wait for You", music by Michel Legrand and English lyrics by Norman Gimbel.

Answer: crook crick

A bad guy is a crook. A crook is also a shepherd's staff or a bend, specifically the crook of your arm. It can also be a verb; namely, to crook your finger in a beckoning gesture.

What you get in your neck from craning is a crick. This painful condition can also result from bending or hunching your back for too long.

Answer: moos mics

Sounds made by a cow are moos. While the onomatopoetic 'moo' can be used as the verb applied to cattle's vocalizing, the more formal verb is 'low'.

"The cattle are lowing, the Baby awakes
But little Lord Jesus, no crying He makes"

These are the first lines of the second verse of the popular Christmas carol "Away in a Manger".

Instruments that pick up sounds for broadcast or recording are microphones, mikes or mics.

Answer: spook spick

A wraith or ghost is a spook. Colloquially, an intelligence officer is also a spook.

Idiomatically, if something is spick-and-span (also spelt spic and span), it is both tidy and spotlessly clean.

Answer: snooker snicker

A popular billiards type game is snooker. Snooker can also be a verb meaning to hoodwink or con.

To laugh unkindly is to snicker, also written snigger.