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A to Z Big Words Quiz – but do you know what they mean?

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The A-to-Z Big Words Quiz is pretty easy to get your head around. We give you a word and several options. All you have to do is select the correct meaning. 26 Multiple Choice Questions.

At one time, just about every house in the country had a dictionary. Some even had a thesaurus which I used to enjoy flicking through as a child. My excuse at the time was that we only had three TV channels available. These days I doubt less than 10 percent of houses own a dictionary far less a thesaurus.

 

In modern times, word processors have had a huge impact on our vocabulary. They check our spelling, and from the 1990s onwards, they also check our grammar. Mobile phones have also changed the way we write and communicate—and not always in a positive way, as they frequently use Americanism instead of the Queen’s English. More and more devices Feature “Artificial Intelligence,” which claims to be able to create documents with very little human input.

 

 

Etymology is  the study of words and the way their meanings have changed over time

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One of my favourite words is “Campanology”. It is the study of everything to do with bells and bellringing. I’ve no idea why I like the word. The longest word in the English dictionary is “Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis”. And it’s an incredible 45 letters long! It’s a technical word for a lung disease called silicosis. I bet you cannot remember how to spell it! I fully expect a pedant to contact me and point out that I have made a grammatical mistake on this page.

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