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fancy; romance, rhapsody, ideal, Utopia, quiz, v. 1. test, examine, check up on; catechize, inquisition, shoot questions at [s.o.], pick [s.o.'s] brains.
2. interrogate, question, put to the question, demand an answer; pump, third-degree, put [s.o.] through the third degree, put [s.o.] through the wringer, cross-examine, cross-question, Inf. grill, Inf. put [s.o.] on the grill, Inf roast, Inf put the pressure on, SI. go or work over, SI. put the screws to.
-n. 3. test, checkup, catechism, set of questions, examination, Inf. exam, review; essay test, multiple choice, Inf. multiple guess, fill in the blanks, Inf. take-home test.
4. catechizing, questioning, querying, quizzing; interrogation, investigation, interpellation, inquisition; cross-examination, third degree, pumping, Inf. grilling, SI. the grill.
5. gag, prank, practical joke, joke, jest, jape, caper, trick, hoax, Inf. dido, SI. monkeyshine. quizzical, adj. 1. odd, peculiar, curious, queer, offbeat, cranky, Inf funny; eccentric, quaint, droll, comical, laughable, Inf. quirky, SI. squirrely, SI. buggy; fanciful, whimsical, waggish, capricious, notional, Archaic. maggoty, crotchety, Chiefly Brit, barmy, SI. balmy; deviate, deviant, aberrant, anomalous, irregular, incongruous; strange, weird, bizarre, freakish, SI. freaky, SI. rum, SI. far-out; ridiculous, ludicrous, absurd, outlandish, preposterous; nondescript, amorphous, indescribable, unclassifiable.
2. questioning, puzzled, perplexed, mystified; bewildered, baffled, muddled; confused, confounded, dumfounded; lost, at a loss, in a fog.
3. derisive, derisory, ridiculing, mocking, jeering; insulting, contumelious, taunting, flouting, teasing; sarcastic, sardonic, satirical, parodistic.
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