Quiz 16 of 50 -- Obscure and Unusual Words

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 wedge-like stone forming part of an arch 1 spherometer
2 milleflori
3 voussoir
4 miothermic
5 tuck
2 Buddhist monastery 1 deric
2 astrogony
3 bonzery
4 luctation
5 isostasy
3 line for fastening corner of a sail to the gaff or yard 1 earing
2 rident
3 chancel
4 aphotic
5 bardocucullus
4 pertaining to the order of the alphabet; rudimentary 1 amerce
2 tintinnabulate
3 abecedarian
4 sicarian
5 cusec
5 spear-shaped 1 hastate
2 decarchy
3 usufruct
4 adessive
5 eisel
6 chief buffoon or mimic 1 pismirism
2 scarious
3 athenaeum
4 viscid
5 archimime
7 short line used to attach fish-hook to main fishing line 1 snell
2 subintelligitur
3 zymometer
4 scissel
5 jellygraph
8 name containing two parts or terms 1 agentive
2 diagenesis
3 dionym
4 quitrent
5 justiciar
9 rule by a god or gods; body of divine rulers 1 martyrolatry
2 strigiform
3 refection
4 marah
5 thearchy
10 to appear above ground (of crops) 1 maniple
2 triboluminescence
3 floriform
4 synanthy
5 braird
Number Question Answer Your answer
11 sexual reproduction 1 impaste
2 lipsanotheca
3 torpillage
4 indumentum
5 syngenesis
12 pertaining to the pulse or heartbeat 1 calathiform
2 sphygmic
3 tisane
4 isocracy
5 demigration
13 bearing eggs 1 jolley
2 myomancy
3 ovigerous
4 faviform
5 patroon
14 growing warm 1 pleroma
2 octroi
3 tonsorial
4 hindforemost
5 incalescent
15 to bring or force into service 1 lunette
2 kern
3 inspan
4 treillage
5 miasma
16 groove or fluting 1 palmate
2 philomath
3 pataphysics
4 autodidact
5 cannelure
17 one whose hair has never been cut 1 toparch
2 mugient
3 glomerate
4 acersecomic
5 gamophagia
18 in short time; speedily 1 deltiology
2 fardage
3 betimes
4 cephalophore
5 insouciance
19 figures, words, notes or numbers that are repeated 1 whippet
2 timeous
3 hagiarchy
4 repetend
5 inconcinnity
20 irregular 1 procursive
2 atactic
3 depays‚
4 ethnomania
5 glyptology
Number Question Answer Your answer
21 to purify or revise; to censor 1 impedimenta
2 expurgate
3 accismus
4 foumart
5 epistolary
22 rear extension of body of car 1 plumulate
2 tonneau
3 cete
4 guimpe
5 undern
23 general slope of a mountain 1 institorial
2 isogloss
3 contemper
4 springe
5 versant
24 below one's social class 1 declass‚
2 kinderspiel
3 armisonant
4 nidatory
5 embryoniform
25 poem in which all stanzas share an identical structure 1 afore
2 antalgic
3 tantivy
4 coul‚e
5 monostrophe
26 study of beauty 1 sonification
2 laystall
3 ballistophobia
4 kalology
5 clerihew
27 mythical flying serpent 1 glyptology
2 gatefold
3 filiform
4 suffrutescent
5 serpivolant
28 attitude of avoiding involvement in outside interests 1 privatism
2 symposiast
3 theriolatry
4 blackguard
5 lexis
29 yellowish-red 1 sederunt
2 ubique
3 fastigium
4 exuviate
5 wallflower
30 science of putting people to death 1 teinoscope
2 ktenology
3 subjoin
4 mellification
5 shawm
Number Question Answer Your answer
31 denied or deprived of physical bodily form 1 decarnate
2 patruity
3 brevipennate
4 agapet
5 piacular
32 flowing, drooping moustache 1 lithoclast
2 pseudogyny
3 flinty
4 digitorium
5 zapata
33 machine for forming or spinning threads 1 filatory
2 corviform
3 burnet
4 theomachy
5 poral
34 pertaining to dreams 1 somnial
2 villiform
3 forfex
4 tribade
5 bourasque
35 church usher and attendant 1 hortatory
2 acarology
3 verger
4 sudd
5 rachis
36 to stretch forth; to present 1 alow
2 porrect
3 flagellantism
4 dyschromatopic
5 juvenilia
37 of or relating to metalworking 1 voivode
2 requiem
3 mulciberian
4 entitative
5 luxate
38 to join together with ducts or openings; to blend or combine 1 cacodemomania
2 pardine
3 rhonchial
4 inosculate
5 coctile
39 to free from obstruction 1 harry
2 manrope
3 deoppilate
4 dichogamous
5 capstan
40 to reduce to slag 1 caudiform
2 breloque
3 kaneh
4 ceraunograph
5 scorify
Number Question Answer Your answer
41 government by priests or by religious law 1 theocracy
2 apothegm
3 hederiferous
4 rya
5 whereinto
42 bound or spring of a horse; fantastic movement 1 aba
2 quartern
3 gambado
4 syncope
5 kummel
43 filling; fullness; fulfilment 1 pelma
2 triune
3 impletion
4 diaspora
5 velutinous
44 destitution; poverty 1 sympiesometer
2 onomatous
3 labiomancy
4 penury
5 jellygraph
45 object which is the mirror image of another 1 enantiomorph
2 fremitus
3 elytriferous
4 egotheism
5 troat
46 experiencing a hallucinogenic stupor 1 tessera
2 prebend
3 pornotopia
4 narcose
5 fungous
47 having a frosted look; bearing whitish dust 1 koine
2 pruinose
3 protestation
4 comate
5 prepollence
48 fear of food or eating 1 sitophobia
2 kidlet
3 glabrous
4 cevesaile
5 jural
49 state of being well governed 1 flaught
2 emissile
3 eunomia
4 protasis
5 nomographer
50 number to which another number is added 1 epanodos
2 augend
3 forficate
4 zoogenic
5 emunctory
Number Question Answer Your answer
51 defamatory falsehood published for political effect 1 acates
2 rebarbative
3 toxicogenic
4 serment
5 roorback
52 unit of capacity equal to 63 gallons 1 meiosis
2 hogshead
3 asportation
4 synaesthesis
5 colure
53 having a groove around the edge 1 sadogue
2 kyrie
3 contorniate
4 saltern
5 hierophobia
54 like mucus 1 gastrolith
2 muculent
3 habergeon
4 abaft
5 nosophobia
55 weight sufficient to weigh another down 1 decarnate
2 carnificial
3 supersensible
4 overpoise
5 paraboliform
56 emulsifier; something soothing 1 modalism
2 wanhope
3 deric
4 anthracomancy
5 demulcent
57 to blackball 1 sadogue
2 theogamy
3 cancriform
4 hylopathism
5 nigroglobulate
58 quality of holding unyieldingly to a position 1 tumefacient
2 cama‹eu
3 ibidem
4 pertinacity
5 juvenal
59 creeping 1 exarchy
2 perficient
3 herpetic
4 largition
5 zootrophy
60 left-handed; awkward 1 pandation
2 kitthoge
3 trivirgate
4 buntline
5 osteography
Number Question Answer Your answer
61 people from whom a jury is drawn 1 noumenalism
2 runnel
3 siffleur
4 pais
5 cincture
62 instrument for measuring fluorescence 1 zampone
2 pangram
3 sempster
4 fluorimeter
5 mesquin
63 to draw together; to cause to contract or shrink 1 constringe
2 mystacial
3 erewhile
4 vulviform
5 rubedinous
64 relating to or connected with the land or farming 1 araphorostic
2 quaeritur
3 praedial
4 ailette
5 veloutine
65 to liberate; to release from walls 1 zosteriform
2 procacity
3 carnet
4 mordacious
5 disimmure
66 pertaining to hummingbirds 1 trochiline
2 venereology
3 porcine
4 chark
5 dystectic
67 listlessness; weariness 1 fleuret
2 stactometer
3 xenogenous
4 languor
5 maugre
68 spotted 1 maculose
2 antanaclasis
3 theomancy
4 canities
5 eleemosynary
69 place where something originates or develops; nest 1 lackaday
2 punk
3 nidus
4 stummel
5 procathedral
70 short hymn 1 sticheron
2 attuition
3 agnomen
4 recrudescence
5 pintle
Number Question Answer Your answer
71 having or bearing gills 1 branchiferous
2 therewith
3 lovat
4 frisson
5 humoral
72 lover of truth 1 philalethist
2 nisus
3 ostiolate
4 cruciferous
5 caponier
73 school rules regarding inter-gender contact 1 fumatorium
2 lorgnon
3 parietals
4 costellate
5 exsert
74 vessel for sprinkling holy water 1 sinter
2 doramania
3 psychograph
4 aspergillum
5 variegated
75 musical instrument that imitates sound of thunder 1 ravelin
2 zoetrope
3 tonitruone
4 montero
5 mutative
76 crested 1 jumboism
2 inaurate
3 tappit
4 osphresis
5 balletomania
77 of or relating to the socratic method 1 avicular
2 marrano
3 hebamic
4 cribble
5 anesis
78 origin or induction of mutation 1 damnification
2 heptamerous
3 mutagenesis
4 generalate
5 bardolatry
79 vertical shaft having chambers at the base 1 rhumb
2 denehole
3 albion
4 stipe
5 romage
80 one with a club-foot 1 knosp
2 taliped
3 implumous
4 antidisestablishmentarianism
5 scatomancy
Number Question Answer Your answer
81 gas or oil lamp 1 argand
2 boustrophedon
3 farouche
4 bovicide
5 chaology
82 spasmodic; occasional; irregular 1 clonic
2 micromancy
3 zomotherapy
4 ponderation
5 cyllosis
83 works of one's youth; early works of an artist or author 1 punctate
2 juvenilia
3 ruridecanal
4 kylin
5 nonage
84 roofed gate of a churchyard 1 bellipotent
2 lychgate
3 subtend
4 fardel
5 chaton
85 knowledge of fixed stars 1 escapology
2 charpie
3 marivaudage
4 poitrel
5 astrognosy
86 heavy clay used for bricks 1 gault
2 megascope
3 stupulose
4 casemate
5 cynolatry
87 kind of ointment 1 illocution
2 supercargo
3 fabiform
4 basilicon
5 arcate
88 cow-shaped 1 stentorian
2 superfuse
3 boviform
4 wyn
5 thermometrograph
89 in the first place 1 onomatophobia
2 pastose
3 primo
4 kitthoge
5 decadist
90 relating to agricultural or rustic affairs; rural; agrarian 1 paliform
2 georgic
3 bordure
4 siemens
5 fastigium
Number Question Answer Your answer
91 second view or meaning; second sight 1 paragoge
2 bore
3 silvicolous
4 retroject
5 deuteroscopy
92 painful swelling of a gland 1 stadiometer
2 adenalgia
3 perstringe
4 poltroon
5 supernatant
93 writer of miscellanies 1 matrass
2 hieratical
3 miscellanarian
4 tribade
5 hypometropia
94 having short or stubby fingers 1 liquifaction
2 brachydactylous
3 ablegate
4 acquest
5 photopia
95 valve for regulating water flow 1 turncock
2 imperseverant
3 jocko
4 secund
5 retrograde
96 not able to be attacked or captured 1 heterochrony
2 inexpugnable
3 meteorism
4 wallfish
5 codicology
97 study of biological rhythms 1 unberufen
2 dowlas
3 averruncator
4 chronobiology
5 tinnitus
98 of or resembling chalk 1 chronostichon
2 burse
3 cretaceous
4 pontifice
5 fossor
99 any incidental occurrence or advantage 1 sinal
2 typology
3 cipolin
4 obvention
5 splat
100 shaped like a stake 1 hydrognosy
2 gantry
3 sudiform
4 testudinal
5 ostium
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