Post Quiz: Collective Nouns

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Post Quiz: Collective Nouns

It's simple: fill in the collective nouns. They're always fun. Example: A pride of lions. This list comes from Merriam Webster, who culled them from a 15th-century book of venery and more modern sources.

  1. A __________ of crows.
  2. An __________ of larks.
  3. A _________ of geese in flight.
  4. A _________ of floating ducks.
  5. A _________ of flying swans.
  6. A __________ of baboons.
  7. A __________ of owls.
  8. A __________ of penguins.
  9. A __________ of cats. (Descriptive, but not the usual one.)
  10. An _________ of tigers.

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