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{quit}

1: a person who gives up too easily

{quit}

1: an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of surprise shot through him" [syn: {frisson}, {shiver}, {chill}, {shudder}, {thrill}, {tingle}] 2: a shaky motion; "the shaking of his fingers...

1: vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; "a quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more"; "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "...

1: not sensible about practical matters; unrealistic; "as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood"; "a romantic disregard for money"; "a wild-eyed dream of a world state" [syn: {romantic}, {w...

1: in a quixotic manner; "sent to jail for two years, he has quixotically refused to clear himself by betraying his colleagues"

1: quixotic (romantic and impractical) behavior [syn: {knight errantry}]

1: an examination consisting of a few short questions v : examine someone's knowledge of something; "The teacher tests us every week"; "We got quizzed on French irregular verbs" [syn: {test}] [also: {...

1: a game show in which contestants answer questions

1: the host or chairman of a radio or tv quiz show or panel game [syn: {question master}]

{quiz}

1: someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications [syn: {examiner}, {tester}]

{quiz}

1: playfully vexing (especially by ridicule); "his face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air"- Lawrence Durrell [syn: {mocking}, {teasing}] 2: perplexed (as if being expected to know somet...

1: in a quizzical and questioning manner; "they looked quizzically at the doctor" [syn: {questioningly}]

{quiz}

1: a city in northwestern Iran; a place of pilgrimage for Shiite Muslims

1: a hearing to determine by what authority someone has an office or franchise or liberty

1: an issue that is presented for formal disputation

1: expandable metal or wooden wedge used by printers to lock up a form within a chase [syn: {coign}, {coigne}] 2: the keystone of an arch [syn: {coign}, {coigne}] 3: (architecture) solid exterior angl...

1: game equipment consisting of a ring of iron or circle of rope used in the game of quoits

1: a game in which quoits or horseshoes are thrown at a stake in the ground in the hope of encircling it [syn: {horseshoes}]

1: belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover" [syn: {erstwhile(a)}, {former(a)}, {once(a)}, {onetime(a)}, {quondam(a)}, ...

1: a prefabricated hut of corrugated iron having a semicircular cross section [syn: {Nissen hut}]

1: a group of languages of the Hokan family

1: a gathering of the minimal number of members of an organization to conduct business

1: a prescribed number; "all the salesmen met their quota for the month" 2: a proportional share assigned to each participant 3: a limitation on imports; "the quota for Japanese imports was negotiated...

1: the quality of being worthy of being quoted

1: able or fit to be repeated or quoted; "what he said was not repeatable in polite company"; "he comes up with so many quotable phrases" [syn: {repeatable}] [ant: {unrepeatable}, {unrepeatable}] 2: s...

1: a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citations"; "the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a...

1: a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else [syn: {quote}, {inverted comma}]

1: a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else [syn: {quotation mark}, {inverted comma}] 2: a passage or expression that is quoted or cited [syn: {quotation}, {citation}] v ...

1: a communicator (speaker or writer) who uses quotations

1: found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant [...

1: the ratio of two quantities to be divided 2: the number obtained by division

1: an improper and unacceptable kind of compromise verdict

1: the sacred writings of Islam revealed by God to the prophet Muhammad during his life at Mecca and Medina [syn: {Koran}, {al-Qur'an}, {Book}]

1: 20 qurush equal 1 riyal

1: the standard typewriter keyboard; the keys for Q, W, E, R, T, and Y are the first six from the left on the top row of letter keys