Quiz 20 of 50 -- Obscure and Unusual Words

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 double meter Renaissance dance step 1 col
2 vespertinal
3 temporise
4 doppio
5 vice
2 shaped like a dart 1 liquate
2 belemnoid
3 foehn
4 urimancy
5 mutative
3 one employed to write from dictation 1 ecbatic
2 mythogenesis
3 amanuensis
4 croche
5 od
4 to enroll 1 inustion
2 imbreviate
3 plerophory
4 panegoism
5 impudicity
5 shaped like a top or inverted cone 1 teichopsia
2 isomagnetic
3 sphagnology
4 ferruginous
5 turbinate
6 argument forcing choice between contradictory statements 1 acarophobia
2 polylemma
3 supercilious
4 palillogy
5 leno
7 divination using frogs 1 cruset
2 prunt
3 archididascalos
4 jack
5 batraquomancy
8 having a flat; upturned nose 1 apocope
2 omnigenous
3 simous
4 diacope
5 ophiasis
9 figure of three radiating curves or legs 1 xenophilia
2 triskelion
3 dolichopodous
4 acropathy
5 gracility
10 covered walk 1 berceau
2 pomiform
3 montero
4 objurgate
5 mow
Number Question Answer Your answer
11 worship of or devotion to demons 1 fumatorium
2 undeify
3 banquette
4 velocimeter
5 demonolatry
12 to blow a trumpet 1 foulard
2 tubicinate
3 passement
4 cashmere
5 empressment
13 to control by means of a computer 1 papulation
2 acapnotic
3 quagga
4 cybernate
5 proleptical
14 instrument for measuring purity or richness of milk 1 graphophobia
2 lupulic
3 pallograph
4 lactoscope
5 novercal
15 material ejected from a volcano 1 ejectamenta
2 jinker
3 manubrium
4 hippiatrics
5 premotion
16 abnormal thirst 1 polydipsia
2 pollinigerous
3 limacine
4 isobath
5 mattery
17 six-fold 1 spermology
2 celluliferous
3 cypress
4 sexenary
5 gradiometer
18 reddish or brownish-red 1 tabanid
2 catastrophism
3 astrogony
4 rufous
5 anthropoglot
19 worship of Christ 1 ineunt
2 Christolatry
3 mariculture
4 scalpeliform
5 luminist
20 causing dullness or numbness 1 opalescence
2 navalism
3 technocracy
4 torporific
5 plauditory
Number Question Answer Your answer
21 promise; especially one not yet accepted 1 counterscarp
2 pityroid
3 pollicitation
4 metagnostic
5 ochre
22 of or relating to the back of the knee 1 perissosyllabic
2 drap-de-Berry
3 popliteal
4 carboy
5 lochetic
23 equilibrium; counterbalancing thing 1 absquatulate
2 poimenic
3 tragomaschalia
4 foetiferous
5 equipoise
24 flute of a column 1 dactylioglyph
2 epos
3 cathisophobia
4 striga
5 absurdism
25 flat; flattened; compressed 1 mainour
2 luxate
3 applanate
4 metaplasm
5 thuriferous
26 to rebuke 1 spermiogenesis
2 rotundate
3 reprehend
4 wheelhouse
5 horography
27 to some place; somewhere 1 somewhither
2 frontal
3 chrismation
4 pettitoes
5 diaclastic
28 of or pertaining to the wrist 1 electrograph
2 counterblast
3 liturate
4 carpal
5 abactor
29 debauched; rashly extravagant 1 balneary
2 secund
3 garret
4 profligate
5 tocology
30 the study of museums 1 museology
2 serpivolant
3 solidary
4 calicular
5 scapigerous
Number Question Answer Your answer
31 twist; turn 1 strophosis
2 odontograph
3 buhl
4 gigot
5 gigantology
32 like paper; papery 1 papyraceous
2 disseize
3 barkentine
4 ingle
5 adit
33 durable wool 1 sempiternum
2 archaeolatry
3 stet
4 stillatory
5 mournival
34 crafty; wily 1 toreutics
2 versute
3 dossil
4 scotoscope
5 cashmere
35 of or pertaining to rope walking 1 emptysis
2 exogenous
3 cortinate
4 palilalia
5 schoenabatic
36 a pin or pivot on which something can be rotated 1 threnodic
2 scioptic
3 passible
4 trunnion
5 vesuvian
37 hard-skinned 1 alternatim
2 bassinet
3 sclerodermous
4 saturnalian
5 pervicacious
38 arranged in vertical rows 1 ethmoid
2 purloin
3 barbate
4 orthostichous
5 achroous
39 of or relating to the stars 1 neoteric
2 osteoclasis
3 diaphone
4 sidereal
5 retromorphosis
40 ventilating pipe or passage 1 ustulation
2 ventiduct
3 coadjument
4 coffle
5 kerf
Number Question Answer Your answer
41 easily penetrable 1 ferroniŠre
2 meable
3 repunit
4 octastich
5 fumiduct
42 art of carving in bas-relief 1 anaglyptics
2 ziganka
3 escritoire
4 elflock
5 ras
43 tipped with a small hook 1 similitive
2 faille
3 smaragdine
4 bengaline
5 hamulate
44 trick or practical joke 1 bivious
2 rep
3 carriwitchet
4 gaud
5 epinician
45 instrument for measuring blueness of the sky or ocean 1 adiabatic
2 cyanometer
3 parabiosis
4 beatster
5 centuple
46 a retreat for times of ill humour 1 viscometer
2 growlery
3 typhogenic
4 autarchy
5 mastoid
47 four branches of mathematics in medieval education 1 curtal
2 flowmeter
3 quadrivium
4 biens‚ance
5 enantiosis
48 not capable of holding or retaining 1 whosoever
2 intenible
3 glandiform
4 vittate
5 rheometer
49 instrument for measuring height of cloud ceiling above earth 1 pruritus
2 malagma
3 cordwainer
4 pessimum
5 ceilometer
50 theory concerning rappings by spirits or ghosts 1 typtology
2 oligarchy
3 seminiferous
4 apodictic
5 lucre
Number Question Answer Your answer
51 a person given to lecturing or moralizing 1 arrect
2 halieutics
3 rebatement
4 frumentaceous
5 didact
52 fishlike 1 stoichiology
2 ninon
3 jaconet
4 apiculture
5 ichthyoid
53 of the nature of or expressing a wish or recommendation 1 roseaceous
2 precatory
3 stemson
4 terrigenous
5 conglobate
54 wormy 1 perioeci
2 essorant
3 sheol
4 bailivate
5 vermiculous
55 mouth of a river or strait 1 toxicophagous
2 idiocrasis
3 vivat
4 Russophobia
5 debouchure
56 government by slaves 1 neoblastic
2 exodontia
3 nidifugous
4 doulocracy
5 metemptosis
57 concentration of dense mass beneath the moon's surface 1 satanophany
2 agalactia
3 exsuccous
4 polypharmacy
5 mascon
58 unit of radioactive decay and intensity 1 curie
2 anesis
3 myasthenia
4 intercolline
5 outr‚
59 worship of marriage 1 cucurbit
2 sortation
3 inescatory
4 refection
5 gamidolatry
60 divination using ashes 1 ceneromancy
2 sconce
3 taupe
4 hydrometeorology
5 timenoguy
Number Question Answer Your answer
61 nutrition 1 jumboism
2 vorant
3 conflate
4 trophism
5 darraign
62 jewel held on the forehead by a chain 1 samara
2 primiparous
3 leptosome
4 ferroniŠre
5 wristlet
63 excessively fond of one's wife 1 strepent
2 zelatriks
3 prolocutor
4 zimocca
5 uxorious
64 to retch; to feel disgust 1 paravant
2 cathedra
3 syndetic
4 velamentous
5 keck
65 alone 1 sacciform
2 zounds
3 solus
4 prestriction
5 grillage
66 religious ritual; a cult 1 zonoid
2 cultus
3 stative
4 cotehardie
5 fardage
67 light two-wheeled carriage 1 palaeoclimatology
2 assurgent
3 phratry
4 disimmure
5 tonga
68 alternate name for the element astatine 1 labrose
2 whipstall
3 trilemma
4 metoposcopy
5 alabamine
69 flashing 1 holystone
2 fulgorous
3 paranomasia
4 rigadoon
5 acantha
70 of or resembling a skink 1 intercipient
2 sounder
3 retrogress
4 scincoid
5 ichthyomorphic
Number Question Answer Your answer
71 science of generative organs 1 aedoeology
2 unwithdrawing
3 ostraceous
4 warrantise
5 ontography
72 metal in thin plates 1 latten
2 mitogenic
3 policlinic
4 quadrilocular
5 pilliwinks
73 unit of weight equivalent to 1000 pounds 1 thiasus
2 imburse
3 macon
4 kip
5 retrogress
74 study of excretion 1 syndyasmian
2 eccrinology
3 iracundulous
4 reglet
5 coetaneous
75 captain of a ship; coxswain of a longboat 1 causerie
2 patroon
3 commove
4 anhedonia
5 panary
76 increase power or rank of; make greater 1 aggrandize
2 manciple
3 ergograph
4 schizotrichia
5 catabaptism
77 sword-shaped 1 castellan
2 vitelligenous
3 medusiform
4 xiphoid
5 bagnio
78 study of hearing 1 organon
2 carucate
3 audiology
4 mournival
5 pekin
79 to reverse; to upset 1 preseminal
2 renverse
3 tiromancy
4 xenomancy
5 spiraculate
80 response of an organism to gravity 1 retinoscope
2 geotaxis
3 maenadic
4 hirsute
5 eolith
Number Question Answer Your answer
81 cuckolder 1 repunit
2 nosocomium
3 cornuto
4 compeer
5 myrmidon
82 study of angels 1 limous
2 countermand
3 lanigerous
4 angelology
5 fideism
83 gnawing; chewing; corroding 1 arrosive
2 ranarian
3 uncial
4 adrogation
5 galactoid
84 of or relating to the morning 1 dag
2 pineal
3 mutagenesis
4 matinal
5 troilism
85 belief that matter is the only extant substance 1 prestigiator
2 perruquier
3 haemal
4 materialism
5 misosophy
86 unit measuring electrical capacitance 1 farad
2 rampant
3 sloyd
4 lincrusta
5 alow
87 pickled; preserved 1 muriated
2 catamount
3 sept
4 taxaceous
5 ure
88 fear of dogs 1 brassage
2 cynophobia
3 zoetrope
4 lunation
5 pruritus
89 perhaps 1 plebification
2 fucoid
3 prosateur
4 Mariolatry
5 mayhap
90 talkative; garrulous 1 allonge
2 apositia
3 gastropod
4 longe
5 multiloquent
Number Question Answer Your answer
91 corrosive 1 barnard
2 transcalent
3 vulpine
4 diabrotic
5 mouldwarp
92 froggy 1 mousseline
2 pinniped
3 catechumen
4 pathophobia
5 ranarian
93 period of intermission in a fever 1 binnacle
2 terrigenous
3 neoteric
4 apyrexy
5 monostrophe
94 production of speech sounds 1 dioptometer
2 neomorphic
3 paedology
4 torose
5 phonesis
95 small beak or similar outgrowth 1 atheling
2 rostel
3 hygiology
4 flambeau
5 cornuto
96 instrument measuring scintillation of star 1 dobbin
2 corban
3 treenail
4 scintillometer
5 ruction
97 brief saying; proverb; epigram 1 simular
2 megascopic
3 pedipulate
4 cupuliferous
5 apophthegm
98 book containing daily church service 1 breviary
2 bionomics
3 saltigrade
4 monology
5 philately
99 science of growth 1 credo
2 pharmacopolist
3 sidelight
4 magneton
5 auxology
100 oily; fatty 1 iconology
2 aorist
3 domal
4 reast
5 unguinous
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