Quizzing vs. Quest — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Quizzing and Quest
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Quizzing
To question (someone), especially closely or repeatedly
"His searching questions as he quizzed me on my work made me tongue-tied at first" (Susan Sellers).
Quest
A quest is a journey toward a specific mission or a goal. The word serves as a plot device in mythology and fiction: a difficult journey towards a goal, often symbolic or allegorical.
Quizzing
To test the knowledge of by posing questions
Quizzed the class on state capitals.
Quest
The act or an instance of seeking or pursuing something; a search.
Quizzing
(Archaic) To poke fun at; mock.
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Quest
An expedition undertaken in medieval romance by a knight in order to perform a prescribed feat
The quest for the Holy Grail.
Quizzing
A questioning or inquiry.
Quest
An inquest.
Quizzing
A short oral or written test.
Quest
A jury appointed to take part in an inquest.
Quizzing
(Archaic) A practical joke.
Quest
To search for something
Quested for knowledge.
Quizzing
Present participle of quiz
Quest
To go on a quest.
Quizzing
The act by which somebody is quizzed, or teased; banter, raillery.
Quest
To search for game or bay when sighting game, as a hound.
Quizzing
The asking of questions; interrogation.
Quest
A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
Quest
The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
To rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.
Quest
(obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.
Quest
(obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.
Quest
(obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.
Quest
(education) A short test.
Quest
(intransitive) To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
Quest
(transitive) To search for something; to seek.
Quest
To locate and attach to a host animal.
Quest
The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.
Upon an hard adventure yet in quest.
Cease your quest of love.
There ended was his quest, there ceased his care.
Quest
Request; desire; solicitation.
Gad not abroad at every quest and callOf an untrained hope or passion.
Quest
Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively.
The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out.
Quest
Inquest; jury of inquest.
What lawful quest have given their verdict ?
Quest
To search for; to examine.
Quest
To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to beg.
If his questing had been unsuccessful, he appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.
Quest
A search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria;
The pursuit of love
Life is more than the pursuance of fame
A quest for wealth
Quest
The act of searching for something;
A quest for diamonds
Quest
Make a search (for);
Things that die with their eyes open and questing
The animal came questing through the forest
Quest
Search the trail of (game);
The dog went off and quested
Quest
Bark with prolonged noises, of dogs
Quest
Seek alms, as for religious purposes
Quest
Express the need or desire for; ask for;
She requested an extra bed in her room
She called for room service
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