Quizzes on vocabulary
By the Translation Bureau
Test your knowledge of vocabulary and polish your writing skills—all while having fun.
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Choose a quiz from one of the following subcategories:
Borrowed words
Demonyms
Difficult words
Easily confused words
Figures of speech
Gallicisms
Idiomatic expressions
- Apple idioms
- Beastly sayings 1
- Bilingual travel expressions
- Blooming idioms
- Blooming idioms 2
- Body language 1
- Body language 2
- Botanical expressions
- British and Canadian English
- Chilly expressions: Don’t be left out in the cold!
- Chilly expressions: Don’t get cold feet!
- Colourful idioms 1
- Day by day
- Expressions using an animal name
- Fishy expressions
- Flower power
- Food clichés
- Food clichés: Delicious expressions
- Food clichés: Tasty sayings
- Foolish expressions
- French proverbs and expressions: Rendez-vous with the Francophonie!
- Handy expressions
- Hat tricks
- Heady expressions
- Heartfelt expressions
- Hot stuff 1
- Hot stuff 2
- Idioms that leap out at you
- Money talks
- Nail it down
- Nautical idioms
- Nosy expressions
- Playful expressions 1
- Playful expressions 2
- Similes 1
- Straight from the shoulder
- Summery expressions
- Sunny expressions
- There’s no fool like an April Fool!
- There’s no fool like an April Fool 2
- Travel idioms 1
- Vivid expressions 1
- Vivid expressions 2
- Warning: Severe weather ahead
Plain language
Regionalisms
Syllable strings
- A bouquet of spring flowers 1
- A bouquet of spring flowers 2
- A bouquet of summer flowers
- Another bouquet of summer flowers
- Back to work!
- Enjoy the feast
- Famous lovers in literature
- Halloween: Fantoms, vampires and jack-o-lanterns
- Holiday season vocabulary
- Midsummer magic
- Midsummer magic 2
- Prime ministers of Canada
- Springtime vocabulary
- Thanksgiving feast
- Valentine vocabulary
- Winter festival symbols
Synonyms and antonyms
Thematic vocabulary
- Animal babies
- Animal sounds
- Canada Summer Games
- Circa 1900–1919
- Dinner is served: The culinary delights of Francophone immigrants in Canada
- Eggcellent eggs
- Environment-related words: A rich eco-vocabulary
- Eponyms: From Rudolph Diesel to the diesel engine
- Everything but the kitchen sink
- Family relationships
- Gardening 101: Tools
- Gardening 101: Types of plants
- Gardening 101: Verbs
- Gardening 101: Techniques and activities
- Geo is for "earth"
- Ghoulies and ghosties
- Green as the Emerald Isle!
- Hanukkah Vocabulary
- Love in many languages
- Merry Christmas in many languages
- Netspeak
- New technology, new words
- Olympic Winter Games
- Pan Am Games: Terminology for the pro in you!
- Paralympic Winter Games: Own the podium!
- Phobias: Food
- Phobias: Insects and creepy-crawlies
- Phobias: Social phobias
- Phobias: Words
- Santa Claus is coming to town
- Social media in French
- Social media in French: The remix
- Social media in French: The sequel
- Saint Paddy’s Day puzzlers
- Summer Olympics: Featured sports
- Thank you in many languages
- The father and his family
- The mother and her family
- The Olympic Winter Games: Let’s talk sports
- The most widely spoken Indigenous languages in Canada
- Twitter talk
- Vegetarian or vegan?
- Victorian vocabulary
- Winter vocabulary: Snow and other precipitation
- Words ending in -logy 1
- Words ending in -logy 2
- Words ending in -logy 3
- Words ending in –logy 4
- Words that express love
- Yellow-and-black-striped flying insects