Quiz 7 of 50 -- Obscure and Unusual Words

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 consuming plasma 1 plasmophagous
2 acciaccatura
3 nolition
4 thalassic
5 rummer
2 to this place 1 hypotaxis
2 purblind
3 notonectal
4 peatary
5 hither
3 entitled to bear arms 1 malm
2 magnetics
3 armigerous
4 rocaille
5 parasynthesis
4 a wedge; salient angle of a building; cornerstone 1 guichet
2 uletic
3 idiorhythmic
4 quoin
5 malversation
5 narrow braid used for trimming 1 discarnate
2 soutache
3 physicalism
4 cleronomy
5 autoschediasm
6 softening; making supple 1 emollient
2 demersal
3 trachelate
4 uniparous
5 soboliferous
7 prayer stool or kneeling bench in a church 1 pettifogger
2 vestiture
3 prie-dieu
4 bodewash
5 dendrology
8 unit of strength of radio wave emission 1 cellaret
2 fremescent
3 tiromancy
4 jansky
5 theriatrics
9 wall that rests on top of columns 1 scriptorium
2 hippology
3 entablature
4 acanthous
5 knur
10 kind or nature 1 rhematic
2 tabernacle
3 stercoraceous
4 aphemia
5 ilke
Number Question Answer Your answer
11 although 1 ademption
2 longiniquity
3 howbeit
4 elution
5 ontogenesis
12 figure in which relations between words are changed 1 hypallage
2 vivandiŠre
3 sejugate
4 hydrometeorology
5 hemacytometer
13 divination using teeth 1 coruscate
2 odontomancy
3 clinomania
4 skald
5 discobolus
14 being of mental origin 1 orchidaceous
2 ideogenous
3 cupola
4 gyniolatry
5 physiurgic
15 light lustrous cotton and worsted fabric 1 clem
2 ophiology
3 apantomancy
4 taxis
5 brilliantine
16 an old French follow-the-leader dance 1 disinure
2 bransle
3 superciliary
4 micrology
5 objurgate
17 to press together 1 ditokous
2 moslings
3 myrmecophagous
4 floriferous
5 adpress
18 one whose mental processes are stimulated by words 1 transmissometer
2 glossa
3 torsel
4 verbile
5 nullity
19 to put off; to fob 1 fub
2 kiddle
3 osmol
4 pug
5 sabretache
20 indicating movement out of or away from 1 accend
2 elative
3 brocade
4 organoleptic
5 versicle
Number Question Answer Your answer
21 leading in four directions; concerning a four-way junction 1 quadrivial
2 credence
3 torpor
4 pedagoguery
5 irenic
22 to melt; to subject to liquation 1 abrosia
2 liquate
3 unseel
4 prestigiator
5 torus
23 producing nectar 1 otalgia
2 mon
3 stratiform
4 triptote
5 nectariferous
24 swelling 1 viperiform
2 spargosis
3 staminiferous
4 eozoic
5 catena
25 one from whose memory nothing is erased 1 candescent
2 saxigenous
3 mnemonist
4 nightpiece
5 simular
26 beyond the moon; spiritual 1 gib
2 translunary
3 cingular
4 trichotillomania
5 bonify
27 to glide in 1 eidolon
2 parataxis
3 sedulous
4 lutaceous
5 illapse
28 mock sea-battle 1 victualler
2 idolum
3 pontlevis
4 citreous
5 naumachy
29 producing monsters or abnormal growth 1 hyperpyrexia
2 passant
3 teratogenic
4 fimbriate
5 terrella
30 of or relating to yesterday 1 strigine
2 histrionic
3 dreikanter
4 vindemial
5 pridian
Number Question Answer Your answer
31 system of slavery or serfdom 1 pastille
2 servilism
3 serriform
4 horripilation
5 manubrial
32 instantly; quickly 1 homeomerous
2 abraxas
3 swith
4 irremeable
5 intorted
33 fear of heights 1 taxaceous
2 reductionism
3 imminution
4 muricate
5 acrophobia
34 excessive rent 1 tregetour
2 cladistics
3 baculum
4 phaneromania
5 rackrent
35 varnishing 1 lambrequin
2 physiognomy
3 vernition
4 balanism
5 lucernal
36 divination by studying the moon 1 heteroepy
2 bouluterion
3 splenitive
4 mull
5 selenomancy
37 one that rules or manages 1 minster
2 autology
3 ponent
4 minauderie
5 gerent
38 worship of nobility 1 mel
2 splanchnic
3 anadem
4 lordolatry
5 zetetic
39 instrument for recording minute changes in atmospheric pressure 1 shrouds
2 microbarograph
3 loggia
4 subulate
5 auceps
40 in a similar manner 1 facula
2 osmesis
3 arctophily
4 tinctumutation
5 similiter
Number Question Answer Your answer
41 killing insect eggs 1 ovicide
2 coralliferous
3 judder
4 tesseratomy
5 soporiferous
42 ecclesiastical self-government 1 tiara
2 brasero
3 autocephality
4 glandiform
5 toxicogenic
43 transparent 1 ebullition
2 dioptric
3 practive
4 zounds
5 chambray
44 to reduce to spray 1 hysteresis
2 roborean
3 jess
4 nebulize
5 lanai
45 surgical breaking of a bone 1 famulus
2 osteoclasis
3 superscribe
4 temenos
5 bedaggle
46 winged; feathered 1 siccimeter
2 pennate
3 oculus
4 ventriduct
5 macrography
47 pertaining to sandpipers 1 tringoid
2 twyer
3 misericord
4 genethliacon
5 horal
48 the act of spotting or staining 1 ostrichism
2 knackish
3 physiologus
4 maculation
5 pourboire
49 immediately 1 parallelism
2 plutomania
3 fascine
4 forthwith
5 planish
50 portholes on a ship 1 solive
2 scuttles
3 suppedaneum
4 harmonograph
5 ripienist
Number Question Answer Your answer
51 of or relating to a vortex; whirling 1 cosset
2 obsolagnium
3 tumefacient
4 vortical
5 paregoric
52 like a turret 1 psychogram
2 genouillŠre
3 adscititious
4 repository
5 turrical
53 making something vulgar or plebeian 1 proclivitous
2 monachism
3 plebification
4 louvre
5 handsel
54 reddish glow appearing at sunrise or sunset in mountains 1 epulotic
2 electrogenesis
3 alpenglow
4 mulciberian
5 satisfice
55 an excerpt or passage read during religious services 1 jumbal
2 hauteur
3 dactyloscopy
4 pericope
5 isopleth
56 shiny closely woven silk, cotton or rayon fabric 1 pernoctate
2 irenology
3 formate
4 faille
5 metrics
57 shaped like a rod 1 gynaecide
2 vergiform
3 nuncupative
4 chondrogenesis
5 megrim
58 bearing a fork 1 furciferous
2 pentalogy
3 fritiniency
4 lamella
5 violaceous
59 cuckolded 1 agrostography
2 cornuted
3 ultracrepidate
4 sext
5 zoogamy
60 structure of cross-barred or lattice-work 1 wey
2 frist
3 foin
4 trellis
5 pellicle
Number Question Answer Your answer
61 advocate or intercessor; the Holy Spirit acting in such a role 1 anemology
2 tonus
3 paraclete
4 stirk
5 diorism
62 name over and above the ordinary name and surname 1 versicle
2 aspidomancy
3 jansky
4 agname
5 soffit
63 recess of a door or window 1 cymograph
2 pasquilant
3 saxatile
4 doxastic
5 embrasure
64 early feminist; educated or literary woman 1 bluestocking
2 grandiloquent
3 sporogenesis
4 attuition
5 villose
65 cesspool; sewer entrance 1 jawhole
2 broch‚
3 spermatogenesis
4 scride
5 bathyorographical
66 light open-mesh cotton or worsted 1 kersey
2 bilocation
3 etamine
4 calescence
5 susurrus
67 church caretaker or usher 1 monotheism
2 toxicogenic
3 beadle
4 physitheism
5 sphacelated
68 any green crop stored for use as animal fodder 1 trabeculated
2 silage
3 vergiform
4 lithophilous
5 acierate
69 comprehensive treatise 1 transcendentalism
2 polynia
3 summa
4 postcibal
5 sucrier
70 prayer of supplication in responsive style 1 altricial
2 alogism
3 jacobin
4 kentledge
5 litany
Number Question Answer Your answer
71 woolly 1 curmurring
2 lanate
3 tryma
4 culicino
5 planish
72 having a horn on the nose 1 solive
2 madid
3 nasicornous
4 tentation
5 thaumaturgy
73 instrument for measuring tension 1 lygophobia
2 tensiometer
3 enthetic
4 supersensible
5 autosoterism
74 a Hebrew letter 1 diastema
2 qoph
3 psalmody
4 pliofilm
5 gromatics
75 steward of a college or monastery; purveyor 1 hypobulic
2 albion
3 manciple
4 anhelation
5 riparian
76 the formation of imitative words 1 refugium
2 botanomancy
3 echoism
4 imbroglio
5 ergasia
77 group united for nefarious or traitorous ends 1 araphorostic
2 pyrogenation
3 camorra
4 illinition
5 quilling
78 repellent; repulsive 1 distichous
2 rebarbative
3 leno
4 galeiform
5 quadrimium
79 dirty old man 1 micropsia
2 vascular
3 spetch
4 pornogenarian
5 hanap
80 euphemism; word whose meaning altered to conceal evasion 1 vesuviate
2 paranym
3 sangfroid
4 obvolute
5 vegete
Number Question Answer Your answer
81 due to an outside cause 1 retrogress
2 misoneism
3 symphily
4 xenogenous
5 hircine
82 study of fish 1 zoography
2 ichthyology
3 pharmacopolist
4 otalgia
5 aclinic
83 stone thought to grow inside a toad and have magic powers 1 quickstep
2 toadstone
3 uraniscus
4 demisang
5 boun
84 peat-bog 1 petary
2 diptote
3 exility
4 pelerine
5 entremets
85 fat; easy-going person 1 roband
2 rutherford
3 sadogue
4 supercrescent
5 roundel
86 open-woven fabric 1 seriocomic
2 sinistrad
3 leno
4 intercolline
5 kyphosis
87 differently finished edging of cloth 1 tutiorism
2 ambry
3 styliferous
4 selvage
5 paedonymic
88 slander; disparage 1 hydrokinetics
2 asperse
3 badious
4 velamentous
5 orbific
89 one with a certain feature by which descendants analyzed 1 obturate
2 counterfoil
3 proband
4 triumphalism
5 chiffonier
90 silk-screening 1 botanomancy
2 tesseratomy
3 pantler
4 quisling
5 serigraphy
Number Question Answer Your answer
91 leaf-eating 1 fleuret
2 inglenook
3 phyllophagous
4 sarangousty
5 agraphia
92 to practise sabotage against 1 peltiferous
2 ratten
3 audile
4 aspidomancy
5 thole
93 rule by two individuals 1 punctilious
2 iatrochemistry
3 biarchy
4 terrazzo
5 exaugurate
94 bright spot or halo appearing on either side of sun; parhelion 1 helictite
2 sundog
3 bickern
4 hyetology
5 pteridology
95 to wander freely; to write about in great detail 1 arundinaceous
2 iconoplast
3 expatiate
4 succinic
5 ichthyoid
96 likely to excite indignation against the performer 1 orography
2 gomphosis
3 ontological
4 liturgician
5 invidious
97 someone who guides posthorses 1 postilion
2 prescriptivism
3 quantometer
4 tombola
5 spadiceous
98 rope joining adjacent mastheads 1 kakistocracy
2 memoriter
3 polygenous
4 scree
5 triatic
99 winch used to raise a ship's anchor 1 rabble
2 embryogenesis
3 sufflate
4 barnard
5 windlass
100 study of light refraction 1 dwile
2 dioptrics
3 gal
4 accubation
5 ventral
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