Anagrams of: QUINIC_

• an examination consisting of a few short questions

• examine someone's knowledge of something

• any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)

• with little or no delay

• accomplished rapidly and without delay

• hurried and brief

• moving quickly and lightly

• apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity

• performed with little or no delay

• easily aroused or excited

• small Asian tree with pinkish flowers and pear-shaped fruit; widely cultivated

• aromatic acid-tasting pear-shaped fruit used in preserves

• the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one

• a bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende

• coat or cover with zinc

• a witty saying

• witty remark

• make jokes or quips

• the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence

• something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something he does or gives or promises

• a wad of something chewable as tobacco