From: Translation Bureau
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List of quizzes
Choose a quiz from one of the following subcategories:
Borrowed words
Difficult words
Easily confused words
- Confusable words: “Amount” or “number”?
- Confusable words: “Bring” or “take”?
- Confusable words: “Fewer” or “less”?
- Confusable words: Is it “bad” or “badly”?
- Confusable words: Is it “loath” or “loathe”?
- Similar-sounding words: Are you “discreet” or “discrete”?
- Similar-sounding words: Do you have “flair” or “flare”?
- Similar-sounding words: Do you want “dessert” or “desert”?
Figures of speech
Gallicisms
Idiomatic expressions
Animal expressions
Food clichés
Holiday expressions
Parts of the body
Plants
Weather
Miscellaneous: Idiomatic expressions
- A proverb a day keeps the doctor away!
- Bilingual expressions: Colourful idioms
- Bilingual expressions: Day by day
- Bilingual expressions: Get it while it’s hot!
- Bilingual expressions: Let’s take a trip!
- Bilingual expressions: Same meaning, different image
- Bilingual expressions: Strike while the iron is hot!
- Bilingual expressions: Vivid imagery
- British and Canadian English
- Expressions with the word “hat”: Put your thinking cap on!
- Expressions with the word “nail”: Nail them down!
- Foolish expressions
- French proverbs and expressions: Rendez-vous with the Francophonie!
- Money talks
- Nautical idioms
- Playful expressions: Play fair!
- Playful expressions: Play in the big leagues!
- Summery expressions
- Travel idioms: Get on the right track!
Plain language
Regionalisms
Syllable strings
- A bouquet of spring flowers: Crack the codes!
- A bouquet of spring flowers: Decipher the clues!
- A bouquet of summer flowers: Guess the answers!
- A bouquet of summer flowers: Solve the riddles!
- Back to work!
- Enjoy the feast!
- Famous lovers in literature
- Halloween fun!
- Holiday season vocabulary
- Midsummer magic: The stuff of fairy tales
- Midsummer magic: Whimsical words
- Prime ministers of Canada
- Saint Paddy’s Day puzzlers
- Springtime vocabulary
- Thanksgiving feast
- Valentine vocabulary
- Winter festival symbols
Synonyms and antonyms
Thematic vocabulary
Holidays
Nature and environment
- Bilingual gardening vocabulary: Techniques and activities
- Bilingual gardening vocabulary: Tools
- Bilingual gardening vocabulary: Types of plants
- Bilingual gardening vocabulary: Verbs
- Bilingual winter vocabulary: Snow and other precipitation
- Environment-related words: A rich eco-vocabulary
- Geo is for “earth”
Sports
Technology and social media
Miscellaneous: Thematic vocabulary
- Eponyms: From Rudolph Diesel to the diesel engine
- Everything but the kitchen sink
- Green as the Emerald Isle!
- Literal and figurative meanings: From concrete to abstract
- “Love” in many languages
- Onomatopoeia and interjections: Words that imitate sounds or express emotion
- Victorian vocabulary
- Vocabulary circa 1900–1919
- Words ending in “-logy”: What is angiology?
- Words ending in “-logy”: What is cetology?
- Words ending in “-logy”: What is dendrology?
- Words ending in “–logy”: What is ichthyology?
- Words that express love