thumbnail

-Tion Vocabulary Words Quiz #1

Based on the definitions, guess these words that end with "tion".
Quiz by Quizmaster
Rate:
Last updated: November 11, 2018
You have not attempted this quiz yet.
First submittedNovember 15, 2011
Times taken28,722
Average score65.0%
Rating4.26
4:00
Enter word here:
0
 / 20 guessed
The quiz is paused. You have remaining.
Scoring
You scored / = %
This beats or equals % of test takers also scored 100%
The average score is
Your high score is
Your fastest time is
Keep scrolling down for answers and more stats ...
Definition
Word
Long, winter sleep for certain animals
Hibernation
Murder for political reasons
Assassination
Large estate on which cash crops
are grown
Plantation
Illegally leaving the military
Desertion
Process of taming wild animal species
Domestication
Digging, especially by an archeologist
Excavation
Seasonal movement of animals
Migration
Ceremony to crown a monarch
Coronation
Resignation of the throne
Abdication
Process through which money
becomes worth less
Inflation
Definition
Word
Birth control
Contraception
Length of pregnancy
Gestation
An increase in velocity
Acceleration
Supplying farmland with water
Irrigation
Attempting to find water using
a magic rod
Divination
Chewing
Mastication
Doctoral thesis
Dissertation
Chewing cud
Rumination
Removing salt from water
Desalination
Short blessing at the end of
a church service
Benediction
+4
Level 23
Nov 15, 2011
My score was so bad I won't even mention it. But when the answers came up I honestly knew all of them. Go figure . . .
+1
Level 38
Oct 21, 2016
Yeah bit of a ditto for me too. Only got 12, missed high scoring ones.
+4
Level 71
Feb 1, 2017
Me too...let's blame the definitions
+1
Level 28
Nov 15, 2011
Like this one.
+2
Level 29
Nov 16, 2011
I thought divination was predicting the future..... like in Harry Potter..... lol.
+2
Level 51
May 5, 2015
I believe divination has more than one definition, but this is one of them.
+6
Level 43
Jun 18, 2014
Now for a pedantic comment: acceleration actually means a CHANGE in velocity, not an increase. (After all, when half of defining velocity consists of determining the object's direction, it can't really be "increased". Speed can be increased.)
+1
Level 65
Jan 11, 2019
So when you go slower (lower velocity), you d also call it accelaration?
+2
Level 76
Jan 12, 2019
Yes, actually. The official scientific definition of "acceleration" is as @ecp said, any change in speed (velocity) or direction. Speeding up, slowing down, and turning all count as accelerating.
+2
Level 68
Jan 14, 2019
There is a difference between the English language definition of the word "acceleration" and the physics/engineering definition of the vector quantity "acceleration."
+1
Level 67
Jan 10, 2024
This is, after all, an English vocabulary quiz and not a physics quiz.
+6
Level 74
Apr 11, 2016
Please accept "depreciation" for money becoming more worthless.
+2
Level 84
Nov 27, 2019
Depreciation isn't your money becoming less valuable, it's what you bought with your money becoming less valuable. Buy a brand new car, and drive it off the lot with $20 in your pocket. The moment you hit the road, that $20 is still worth $20. But that $25,000 car is now worth $18,000. That's depreciation.
+2
Level 77
Nov 11, 2018
Not sure if I misspelled "dissertation" or not, but I ended up getting "desertion" halfway through the word. Either swap them around, do something about type-ins or remove one, I guess.
+2
Level ∞
Nov 11, 2018
This has been fixed
+11
Level 86
Nov 12, 2018
I had to mull over "rumination" for a while.
+4
Level 69
Nov 12, 2018
I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE
+1
Level 77
Nov 12, 2018
regurgitation for chewing chud?
+3
Level 69
Nov 12, 2018
While I see your point that ruminants do indeed regurgitate, they only regurgitate so that they can do some more ruminating, i.e. chewing of their cud. So while regurgitating is indeed involved in the whole, somewhat gross process, it's only rumination that is a direct definition of "chewing cud". P.S. Moo.
+1
Level 60
Nov 12, 2018
I got stuck on the salt one for a while. Tried "distillation" and "crystalisation"...I guess I was thinking too much of chemistry.
+1
Level 90
Nov 12, 2018
Chewing cud is also a form of regurgitation, is it not?
+1
Level 69
Nov 12, 2018
See my reply to WT2008, above.
+3
Level 77
Nov 14, 2018
Mastication is one of my favorite words in the English language. Thank you for including it!
+1
Level 65
Dec 18, 2018
I tried desaltation, wasnt far off (and was typng abducation was about to type it with"i" next.)
+2
Level 68
Jan 11, 2019
That was a fun quiz. Gratification. Congratulations.
+1
Level 75
Jan 11, 2019
Chewing cud is the only one I missed - and we have cows! (And sometimes raise goats and sheep.) Sigh.
+5
Level 66
Jan 11, 2019
Honest suggestion: Abortion for birth control?

Not: Imagination for magic rod usage?

+1
Level 60
Oct 22, 2020
abortion terminates a pregnancy while birth control prevents a pregnancy, getting the pill/ iud while you are pregnant will not remove the fetus.
+3
Level 40
Jan 11, 2019
Tried separation, purification, distillation and filtration for the salt one. answer was way more straightforward that I thought
+1
Level 70
Nov 23, 2021
Could you accept anticonception for birth control?
+1
Level 65
Jan 4, 2023
Really enjoyed it. Tripped on Benediction. Should've guessed it.