LandaBooks Word Quiz Answers: Mind Your Ps and Qs


  1. To palpate is to feel with fingers and hands, especially as part of a physical examination. (From Latin palpare—to stroke, touch.)
  2. To parboil is to cook partly, precook (from Latin perbullire, to cook thoroughly, changed through confusion of per, through, with par, part).
  3. A quartile is the number or value that divides a set of data into four equal-sized parts: one-fourth would fall below the first quartile, one-half below the second, and so on (from Latin quart, fourth).
  4. Quasars (from quasi-stellar radio source) are thought to be the most distant objects in the universe.
  5. A quid is a hunk of chewing tobacco (used mostly by young white males in the American South), as well as another term for British pound sterling.
Posted by Dave at 9/28/2011 2:50 PM
Categories: language, words, word quiz
Tags: LandaBooks Language palpate parboil quartile Quasars quid word quiz
 

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