2023 - Kupu and Vocabulary

“Cackle” is the collective noun for which animal?

• Hyena
• Hippo
• Rhino
• Horses
• Pluto

What is the Māori name for fish?

• Kura
• Ika
• Ako
• Kaiako

The fear of small things is called what?

• Dentophobia
• Glossophobia
• Microphobia
• Arachnophobia.

What is the term for a traditional Māori tattoo?

• Ta Moka
• Ta Moku
• Ta Moki
• Tā Moko

What is the name of a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet?

• Pangram
• Antigram
• Anagram
• Antonym

Which letter is most commonly used in the English language?

• i
• e
• a
• u

In 2022, what was Oxford Dictionary’s Word of the Year?

• Toxic
• Youthquake
• Goblin mode
• The Crying Emoji

What is a word that reads the same forwards as it does backwards?

• Levidrome
• Semordnilap
• Anagram
• Palindrome

What is a “pūtātara”?

• A shell trumpet
• A stone trumpet
• A short trumpet
• A small trumpet

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