Quiz
Quiz noun - A person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another.
Usage example: always eager to put everything down, my boyfriend had to be a quiz and make fun of the actors and costumes in our local theater troupe's latest production
Tormentor
Tormentor noun - A person who causes repeated emotional pain, distress, or annoyance to another.
Usage example: shocked by the news that his chief tormentor from elementary school had committed suicide at the age of 30
Quiz and tormentor are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Quiz" instead a noun "Tormentor".
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Tormentor and Quiz. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 28, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/quiz/tormentor
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