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Wordage quiz: Rank 'cool', 'bogus' and 'meh' by how old they are

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A graphic showing humanoid blobs as cool, dodgy, rad or meh characters

The surprising longevity of words describing our reactions to things(ABC News/Jarrod Fankhauser)

We hope you think this quiz is cool, or maybe even rad. We hope you don't find it meh, and certainly not bogus.

Welcome to the first ABC Wordage quiz, where your challenge is to sort words in order of their age. Today we're looking at how to say something is good, bad or indifferent.

One ot these words is nearly 500 years old. See if you can guess which one.

Sources: OED, Etymonline, Merriam-Webster, Green's Dictionary of Slang

How to play:

  • Drag each name into the shaded box. Hit Submit when you're happy.
  • You have three guesses per round. And there are always three rounds.
  • You can get a hint if you're stuck.

Where to find all the ABC's quizzes

Want to test yourself even further?

Take a squiz at the ABC's New Quiz topic page and see if you're a whiz at our previous quizzes.

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