quizzed

• accomplished
• adept
• adequate
• all around
• annoyed
• asked
• au fait
• besieged
• bombarded
• canvased
• canvassed
• capable
• catechized
• certified
• competent
• cross-examined
• cross-questioned
• debriefed
• disciplined
• efficient
• equipped
• examined
• experienced
• expert
• fit
• fitted
• gave the third degree to
• good
• grilled
• harassed
• hounded
• instructed
• interrogated
• knowledgeable
• licensed
• pestered
• picked the brains of
• polled
• practiced
• pro
• proficient
• proper
• proved
• pumped
• queried
• questioned
• surveyed
• sweat
• sweated
• talented
• tested
• trained
• tried
• up to snuff
• up to speed
• vet
• veteran
• wicked

• answered
• avoided
• commented
• ducked
• ignorant
• impotent
• inadequate
• inappropriate
• incapable
• incompetent
• incorrect
• inefficient
• inept
• inexperienced
• observed
• open
• rejoined
• remarked
• replied
• responded
• retorted
• unable
• unfit
• unlimited
• unproficient
• unqualified
• unrestricted
• unskilled
• untalented

• verb
  1. To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
  2. To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
  3. To question closely, to interrogate.
  4. To instruct by means of a quiz.
  5. To play with a quiz.

• During the interview, the candidate was quizzed about her previous work experience.
• The students were quizzed on the material they had studied the previous week.
• She felt nervous as she was quizzed by the police about her whereabouts on the night of the incident.
• The detective quizzed the suspect relentlessly until he finally confessed.
• The teacher quizzed the class on the vocabulary words they had learned.

made fun of

qualified

jeered

made sport of

queried

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