Test Your Intelligence On Parts Of Speech
Brush your knowledge on Parts Of Speech with these quiz questions.
- 1.
What part of speech is "pugnacious", meaning "quarrelsome"?
- A.
Verb
- B.
Noun
- C.
Adjective
- D.
Adverb
Correct Answer
C. Adjective -
- 2.
What part of speech is "pulmonary", meaning "pertaining to the lungs"?
- A.
Adjective
- B.
Noun
- C.
Adverb
- D.
Verb
Correct Answer
A. Adjective -
- 3.
What part of speech is "punctilious", meaning "strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom"?
- A.
Adverb & Adjective
- B.
Adjective
- C.
Noun
- D.
Verb
Correct Answer
B. Adjective -
- 4.
What part of speech is "punctual", meaning "observant and exact in points of time"?
- A.
Adverb
- B.
Adjective
- C.
Verb
- D.
Noun
Correct Answer
B. Adjective -
- 5.
What part of speech is "pungent", meaning "affecting the sense of smell"?
- A.
Adjective
- B.
Verb
- C.
Adverb
- D.
Noun
Correct Answer
A. Adjective -
- 6.
What part of speech is "pungency", meaning "the quality of affecting the sense of smell"?
- A.
Adverb
- B.
Verb
- C.
Noun
- D.
Adjective
Correct Answer
C. Noun -
- 7.
What part of speech is "purl", meaning "to cause to whirl, as in an eddy"?
- A.
Adjective
- B.
Verb
- C.
Adverb
- D.
Noun
Correct Answer
B. Verb -
- 8.
What part of speech is "purloin", meaning "to steal"?
- A.
Noun
- B.
Verb
- C.
Adjective
- D.
Adverb
Correct Answer
B. Verb -
- 9.
What part of speech is "putrescent", meaning "undergoing decomposition of animal or vegetable matter accompanied by fetid odors"?
- A.
Verb
- B.
Adverb
- C.
Adjective
- D.
Noun
Correct Answer
C. Adjective -
- 10.
What part of speech is "pyx", meaning "a vessel or casket, usually of precious metal, in which the host is preserved"?
- A.
Adjective
- B.
Adverb
- C.
Noun
- D.
Verb
Correct Answer
C. Noun -
- 11.
What part of speech is "quackery", meaning "charlatanry"?
- A.
Adjective
- B.
Adverb
- C.
Noun
- D.
Verb
Correct Answer
C. Noun -
- 12.
What part of speech is "quantity", meaning "magnitude"?
- A.
Adverb
- B.
Noun
- C.
Adjective
- D.
Verb
Correct Answer
B. Noun -
- 13.
What part of speech is "quarantine", meaning "the enforced isolation of any person or place infected with contagious disease"?
- A.
Adjective
- B.
Verb
- C.
Noun
- D.
Adverb
Correct Answer
C. Noun -
- 14.
What part of speech is "quarterly", meaning "occurring or made at intervals of three months"?
- A.
Verb
- B.
Adverb
- C.
Adjective
- D.
Noun
Correct Answer
C. Adjective -
- 15.
What part of speech is "quay", meaning "a wharf or artificial landing-place on the shore of a harbor or projecting into it"?
- A.
Adverb
- B.
Verb
- C.
Adjective
- D.
Noun
Correct Answer
D. Noun -
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