Quick Quiz: Nouns Score: Change category, Flip order Reset Incorrect! Try again. Noun: whirl Your choice? a more or less vertical column of air whirling around itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth   (Noun: whirlwind) shrub of eastern and southern coastal United States having beautiful racemes of spice-scented white flowers   (Noun: white alder) small evergreen of eastern North America having tiny scalelike leaves on flattened branchlets confused movement