Anagrams of UPRITE__

• an examination consisting of a few short questions

• examine someone's knowledge of something

• A game at cards played between two persons, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes, being set aside.

• A stake driven into the ground.

• A type of punishment by which an offender had to rest his or her entire body weight on the top of a small stake.

• A tool in mountaineering that is driven into the snow and used as an anchor or to arrest falls.

• One of the soldiers or troops placed on a line forward of a position to warn against an enemy advance; or any unit (for example, an aircraft or ship) performing a similar function.

• (sometimes figurative) A sentry.

• A protester positioned outside an office, workplace etc. during a strike (usually in plural); also the protest itself.

• The card game piquet.

• To protest, organized by a labour union, typically in front of the location of employment.

• To enclose or fortify with pickets or pointed stakes.

• To tether to, or as if to, a picket.

• To guard, as a camp or road, by an outlying picket.

• To torture by forcing to stand with one foot on a pointed stake.

• a fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab

• close with a zipper

• A person who makes quips; a joker

• Permission to use a port given to a ship after compliance with quarantine or on conviction that she is free of contagious disease.

• Practice; habits.

• the difference between the market value of a property and the claims held against it

• the ownership interest of shareholders in a corporation

• conformity with rules or standards

• an almost pleasurable sensation of fright

• a shaky motion

• case for holding arrows

• the act of vibrating

• shake with fast, tremulous movements

• move back and forth very rapidly

• move with or as if with a regular alternating motion

• a floor made of parquetry

• seating on the main floor between the orchestra and the parquet circle