{"id":915139,"date":"2026-10-03T22:28:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T22:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/915139\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T22:28:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T22:28:16","slug":"wordage-quiz-rank-these-words-by-how-old-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/915139\/","title":{"rendered":"Wordage quiz: Rank these words by how old they are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A graphic showing humanoid blobs as cool, dodgy, rad or meh characters\" class=\"Image_image__5tFYM ContentImage_image__DQ_cq\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/f42721845b1b2f6eeb47bbc510aaf554.jpeg\" loading=\"lazy\" data-component=\"Image\" data-lazy=\"true\"\/> The surprising longevity of words describing our reactions to things(ABC News\/Jarrod Fankhauser)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">We hope you think this quiz is cool, or maybe even rad. We hope you don&#8217;t find it meh, and certainly not bogus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Welcome to the first ABC Wordage quiz, where your challenge is to sort words in order of their age. Today we&#8217;re looking at how to say something is good, bad or indifferent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">One ot these words is nearly 500 years old. See if you can guess which one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Sources: OED, Etymonline, Merriam-Webster, Green&#8217;s Dictionary of Slang<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">How to play:<\/p>\n<p>Drag each name into the shaded box. Hit Submit when you&#8217;re happy.You have three guesses per round. And there are always three rounds.You can get a hint if you&#8217;re stuck.Where to find all the ABC&#8217;s quizzes<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Want to test yourself even further?<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Take a squiz at <a class=\"Link_link__5eL5m ScreenReaderOnly_srLinkHint__OysWz Link_showVisited__C1Fea Link_showFocus__ALyv2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/quizzes\" data-component=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">the ABC&#8217;s New Quiz topic page<\/a> and see if you&#8217;re a whiz at our previous quizzes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The surprising longevity of words describing our reactions to things(ABC News\/Jarrod Fankhauser) We hope you think this quiz&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":915140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,8515,85],"class_list":["post-915139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-quiz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/915140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}