Quiz 17 of 50 -- Obscure and Unusual Words

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 relating to a barber or a barber's work 1 odeum
2 contraterrene
3 tonsorial
4 ramiferous
5 cirrate
2 mass of floating weed blocking the Nile River 1 colonnade
2 sudd
3 geoponics
4 broch
5 volitive
3 rope used on ships to steady the bowsprit 1 membral
2 incult
3 bobstay
4 wormcast
5 ephectic
4 worship of machines 1 hummock
2 truckle
3 mechanolatry
4 whift
5 flounce
5 to take a precognition of 1 momentaneous
2 commination
3 maidan
4 theatromania
5 precognosce
6 back door or gate; small private door 1 postern
2 theomania
3 drollery
4 polyonym
5 ziti
7 a defiant pronouncement or denunciation 1 fretum
2 skewbald
3 inhumation
4 slickenside
5 counterblast
8 gluttony; greed 1 swallet
2 altitonant
3 gulosity
4 genetrix
5 obelus
9 type of aquatic mammal, including whales and dolphins 1 pignorate
2 premotion
3 cetacean
4 inunction
5 bomb‚
10 wasp's nest 1 vespiary
2 diplomatics
3 ruthful
4 aquarelle
5 viperiform
Number Question Answer Your answer
11 not thought of; unexpected 1 olivet
2 secretaire
3 inopinate
4 zibeline
5 poculation
12 feeble; helpless; futile; ineffectual 1 consistory
2 sophiology
3 ferulaceous
4 marquisette
5 feckless
13 an unresponsiveness to pleasure 1 birl
2 amicicide
3 solive
4 protean
5 anhedonia
14 musical instrument similar to a harp 1 bossa-nova
2 precisian
3 asitia
4 kora
5 commorient
15 space through which animal track passes 1 meuse
2 heliosis
3 disponge
4 telary
5 caecity
16 rod, staff or scepter of power 1 myringa
2 dit
3 sphygmology
4 baculus
5 hypotaxis
17 bearing flowers 1 macarism
2 floriferous
3 gregal
4 whereinsoever
5 washboard
18 bedbug 1 cimex
2 aseity
3 washball
4 topgallant
5 coburg
19 a gradual decrease in quantity or quality 1 wiseling
2 hamulus
3 nim
4 galeiform
5 decrement
20 labyrinth; bewilderment 1 antelucan
2 mizmaze
3 fluvialist
4 entelechy
5 mulct
Number Question Answer Your answer
21 constant use of the word ¿hellÀ 1 hadeharia
2 herpetology
3 xylopyrography
4 pallograph
5 ulosis
22 resembling or shaped like a sieve 1 belemnoid
2 sponsion
3 hyperacusis
4 coliform
5 kettlestitch
23 blacksmith's forge or anvil 1 stithy
2 ephemeron
3 hircosity
4 dubitative
5 vetanda
24 lying flat; sluggish 1 skiamachy
2 consilience
3 aludel
4 jacent
5 billingsgate
25 instrument for measuring revolutions of a wheel 1 monopsychism
2 xystus
3 viameter
4 cervine
5 climacophobia
26 quality or property of something; abstract virtue or quality 1 simplex
2 vair
3 quale
4 encaustic
5 palpebral
27 having six lines or rows 1 gridelin
2 hexastichal
3 angelus
4 esemplastic
5 manicate
28 word from same root as another 1 paronym
2 circumlittoral
3 ped
4 caudiform
5 hebephrenia
29 instrument for measuring inclination to the horizontal of an axis 1 passalorynchite
2 armillary
3 anapnea
4 proleptics
5 inclinometer
30 divination using demons 1 pintle
2 micromania
3 emonomancy
4 calligram
5 sempiternal
Number Question Answer Your answer
31 study of garbage 1 diasyrm
2 garbology
3 souteneur
4 liberticide
5 aquarelle
32 having a definite shape 1 eikonology
2 chyliferous
3 arundinaceous
4 effigurate
5 oniomania
33 fear of one's stepmother 1 sphygmometer
2 blague
3 intitule
4 vatic
5 novercaphobia
34 blistering 1 vesicant
2 chasmophile
3 ecclesiolatry
4 hesternal
5 pacificate
35 process of growth in individual not common in its species 1 hyacinthine
2 genethliacon
3 messianism
4 qintar
5 caenogenesis
36 antidote 1 vestiture
2 narquois
3 bracteate
4 alexipharmic
5 peccadillo
37 headlong; precipitate 1 oxytone
2 astragalomancy
3 criticaster
4 putrefaction
5 gadarene
38 salty; brackish; growing in salty soil 1 symbology
2 salsuginous
3 agalactia
4 Mariolatry
5 osphresis
39 lock of tangled hair 1 notonectal
2 elflock
3 gynaecocracy
4 clepsydra
5 odontist
40 closely woven lightweight cloth 1 percale
2 retorse
3 quadragesimal
4 criant
5 inboard
Number Question Answer Your answer
41 feasting 1 apprompt
2 pandemic
3 hist
4 decennoval
5 epulation
42 belief that gods are only deified men 1 eonism
2 oakus
3 anthropotheism
4 quasquicentennial
5 subjacent
43 instrument for studying structure of crystals with polarised light 1 jink
2 cleromancy
3 stauroscope
4 equable
5 zosteriform
44 of or relating to the embryonic period of development 1 catachthonian
2 nepionic
3 broch
4 exoteric
5 eigne
45 to oscillate; to be poised 1 rostelliform
2 monkery
3 librate
4 nomothetical
5 plutonic
46 government by mill owners 1 perscrutation
2 dal
3 bˆtise
4 millocracy
5 taphephobia
47 strife 1 saponaceous
2 arundinaceous
3 zoophyte
4 conteck
5 ergotise
48 dagger 1 hopsack
2 skean
3 colligation
4 ampulla
5 nodus
49 instrument used to write on a very small scale 1 girasol
2 magistral
3 lustration
4 solum
5 micrograph
50 mind-measurement 1 evanition
2 malacology
3 noometry
4 ophthalmophobia
5 gudgeon
Number Question Answer Your answer
51 constriction 1 coarctation
2 stylometer
3 osteophone
4 baragouin
5 welkin
52 like or belonging to a red deer 1 caducity
2 noetics
3 vociferant
4 elaphine
5 lucre
53 worship of trees 1 dendrolatry
2 douanier
3 kinderspiel
4 electuary
5 nosology
54 honey-making 1 mellification
2 kymatology
3 affricate
4 salacious
5 slickenside
55 worship of the cross or crucifix 1 metanomen
2 endoscope
3 quadrigeminal
4 staurolatry
5 subitize
56 that may be annulled 1 pseudandry
2 demegoric
3 debellate
4 phaeism
5 defeasible
57 one who speaks with closed teeth 1 dentiologist
2 synorthographic
3 chambray
4 atmatertera
5 inveigle
58 pale yellow 1 promptuary
2 preconize
3 camelopard
4 primrose
5 crubeen
59 anything undesirable or worthless 1 wether
2 acosmism
3 bridgewater
4 interferometer
5 singult
60 of or belonging to the camp 1 iridology
2 monitory
3 diptote
4 castral
5 psychopathology
Number Question Answer Your answer
61 study of senility 1 nostology
2 dimissory
3 peck
4 scotopia
5 epeolatry
62 marriage to only one man at a time 1 hymnology
2 tremulous
3 monandry
4 puberulent
5 quatint
63 lifeless; spiritless; depressed 1 exanimate
2 orthotropism
3 bˆtise
4 infuscate
5 aboideau
64 mournful-sounding 1 borzoi
2 unciform
3 tristisonous
4 octastich
5 misoneism
65 abnormally powerful sex drive 1 exopathic
2 strigine
3 psychrometer
4 erotomania
5 redhibition
66 bellowing; braying 1 mugient
2 allative
3 poodle
4 hamartia
5 monophylletic
67 having shiny smooth scales 1 hackle
2 waits
3 balanoid
4 potamology
5 ganoid
68 love of both God and humanity 1 comity
2 psychopathology
3 gules
4 urology
5 theophilanthropism
69 exemption from local regulations 1 mewling
2 accipiter
3 exterritority
4 phototachometer
5 psychobiology
70 expression of sorrow or lamentation; alas 1 primrose
2 logodaedalus
3 adduce
4 wellaway
5 gynocracy
Number Question Answer Your answer
71 instrument for recording mechanical forces 1 dynamograph
2 elenctic
3 austromancy
4 snaffle
5 fluxional
72 branch of river that flows away from the main stream 1 cymograph
2 bombosity
3 distributary
4 dragonism
5 undight
73 gully 1 erotology
2 theodolite
3 havier
4 filiopietistic
5 couloir
74 scratching surface of pottery to reveal different colour 1 radicated
2 marl
3 procoelous
4 silicicolous
5 sgraffito
75 of or relating to lamps 1 recondite
2 lucernal
3 spirulate
4 tornote
5 organicism
76 partition to control ventilation in a mine 1 agastopia
2 riem
3 bretasche
4 ablaut
5 silesia
77 to beat with a stick or baton, especially on the feet 1 surdimutism
2 puce
3 thyestean
4 bastinade
5 absinthism
78 to deny; to contradict; to resolve a contradiction 1 barrulet
2 thanatousia
3 hyetology
4 sublate
5 forcipiform
79 to attract and stick to the surface 1 acierate
2 microclimatology
3 stereobate
4 adsorb
5 cephalopod
80 stuffed jacket worn under mail 1 haqueton
2 mirific
3 filiferous
4 caricous
5 croceate
Number Question Answer Your answer
81 instrument for measuring tilting of earth's surface 1 maugre
2 tiltmeter
3 zygosis
4 gargarize
5 premonish
82 lamp burning oil mixed with air in a spray 1 kava
2 loxodromy
3 perstringe
4 lucigen
5 chrestomathic
83 artistic preference of the everyday to the legendary 1 sepulchre
2 verism
3 archelogy
4 severalty
5 uranomancy
84 bugle with keys 1 historiography
2 triptote
3 sitology
4 keybugle
5 sustentacular
85 delay of vessel's departure or loading with cargo 1 psychomorphism
2 demurrage
3 saltant
4 gaposis
5 vellicate
86 doctrine that mental processes are epiphenomena of brain activity 1 reguerdon
2 hematology
3 bulbiferous
4 ferrule
5 epiphenomenalism
87 understatement of size or importance for rhetorical effect 1 kinderspiel
2 dimerous
3 meiosis
4 pluriliteral
5 desideratum
88 of or relating to warthogs 1 jalousie
2 tubicornous
3 morbilli
4 compossible
5 phacochoerine
89 morbid craving for poisons 1 toxicomania
2 vair
3 profectitious
4 tunicate
5 scatomancy
90 hurtful; guilty; harmful 1 nocent
2 wadmal
3 beatus
4 thelytoky
5 ansate
Number Question Answer Your answer
91 general equality 1 endarchy
2 abirritate
3 omniparity
4 laver
5 truculent
92 counterfeit; feigned 1 simular
2 corbeil
3 satisfice
4 ignicolist
5 pavane
93 period between sunset and full night; dusk 1 neophobia
2 pandemian
3 carboniferous
4 metheglin
5 gloaming
94 to coax or deceive by trickery 1 velocimeter
2 cozen
3 demerge
4 conticent
5 spraints
95 tubular opening 1 defiliation
2 iconolatry
3 beldam
4 tubulure
5 neurism
96 debauchery 1 libertinage
2 halitus
3 khor
4 quelch
5 sapsago
97 theory that all nature has a psychic side 1 parasynthesis
2 panpsychism
3 ahull
4 ypsiliform
5 barodynamics
98 eleven-sided figure 1 sgraffito
2 pliss‚
3 depotentiate
4 hendecagon
5 gimbals
99 the buttocks 1 nates
2 damoiseau
3 horology
4 paidonosology
5 impugn
100 pessimist 1 exsert
2 washland
3 mecometer
4 sarcophilous
5 crapehanger
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