Quick Quiz: Nouns Score: Change category, Flip order Reset Incorrect! Try again. Noun: hotness Your choice? (informal) a state of sexual arousal an alloy steel that remains hard at a red heat; used to make metal-cutting tools   (Noun: hot-work steel) perennial shrub of North America having coarse tongue-shaped leaves and pale-blue to purple flowers confinement to your own home   (Noun: house arrest)