Quiz 24 of 50 -- Obscure and Unusual Words

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 one who utters markedly feeble witticisms 1 gray
2 purulence
3 sinuate
4 cimex
5 witling
2 study protracted late into the night 1 consultor
2 epinikion
3 cephalophore
4 lucubration
5 upaithric
3 mocking; derisive 1 saxony
2 nekton
3 irrisory
4 thaumatolatry
5 wagtail
4 show of affection or eagerness 1 brash
2 aciniform
3 simpliste
4 empressment
5 figuration
5 heavy cotton or linen cloth 1 stack
2 grapholagnia
3 cretonne
4 Lydian
5 diprionidian
6 small vein 1 venule
2 dosiology
3 draffish
4 arrogate
5 planetology
7 instrument for measuring counting rate of electronic counters 1 aegis
2 hegumene
3 basiation
4 ratemeter
5 defluvium
8 make known; disseminate 1 escharotic
2 narquois
3 rachis
4 promulgate
5 tenderometer
9 supplicating; entreating 1 intemerate
2 phenomenalism
3 dromometer
4 suppliant
5 amidships
10 cave 1 hispid
2 lacuscular
3 gnomic
4 antre
5 bireme
Number Question Answer Your answer
11 fullness; completeness; abundance; sufficiency 1 plenitude
2 pharmacometer
3 credence
4 waqf
5 monticolous
12 aircraft propeller 1 airscrew
2 pavis
3 mensuration
4 rigadoon
5 indoles
13 a youth; young bird's plumage 1 pediculophobia
2 bidenticulate
3 volable
4 pottle
5 juvenal
14 mental association of sounds with colours 1 halyard
2 pseudochromaesthesia
3 zapata
4 pertuse
5 perspicacious
15 substance producing an odour 1 poundage
2 susurrate
3 odorivector
4 logia
5 adipescent
16 to reiterate; to redouble 1 stelliferous
2 ingeminate
3 latescent
4 discinct
5 musal
17 in favour of; for 1 scialytic
2 foetiferous
3 washboard
4 waster
5 pro
18 dog that hunts by scent 1 rach
2 interclude
3 wormil
4 lotic
5 coadjument
19 to choose; the act of choosing 1 kettlestitch
2 acicular
3 fermi
4 wale
5 prothonotary
20 bringing together 1 calando
2 hyponychial
3 systatic
4 climacophobia
5 umbelliferous
Number Question Answer Your answer
21 emptiness; starvation 1 whiss
2 grillage
3 jalouse
4 inanition
5 smallage
22 divination using dice or knucklebones 1 astragalomancy
2 theism
3 chapbook
4 anthropolith
5 prepossess
23 study of nutrition 1 trophology
2 excalation
3 mortise
4 wallflower
5 chancel
24 study of anaesthetics 1 pentimento
2 glacis
3 retromancy
4 anaesthesiology
5 cariogenic
25 willing 1 epitimesis
2 volitient
3 discission
4 pendicle
5 verberate
26 of or relating to carp 1 acanthous
2 cyprinoid
3 verticity
4 phanic
5 malefic
27 fleshy; of or like flesh 1 doryphorus
2 carnose
3 ypsiliform
4 pyrogenous
5 nephalism
28 growing near springs 1 jongleur
2 fontinal
3 scapiform
4 deorsumversion
5 pliothermic
29 to declare to be happy or blessed 1 premove
2 macarize
3 coronoid
4 glossa
5 kriegspiel
30 process causing goose-bumps 1 gat
2 drill
3 horripilation
4 subsultus
5 anacoluthon
Number Question Answer Your answer
31 rib of a ship 1 binnacle
2 negrophobia
3 futtock
4 nemophilist
5 degression
32 moving round; revolving; rotatory 1 calodemon
2 monticolous
3 aeolistic
4 rostel
5 peristrephic
33 compound interest 1 sard
2 hypural
3 anatocism
4 proclisis
5 frigiferous
34 lament or mass for the dead 1 zoonomy
2 lissotrichous
3 sequacious
4 requiem
5 annomination
35 emaciation 1 graminology
2 symptosis
3 stemson
4 anthropoglot
5 ampliative
36 instrument for measuring distance travelled on foot 1 camlet
2 empiecement
3 tristisonous
4 poulp
5 pedometer
37 to blunt or dull; to deaden 1 pleonectic
2 spadassin
3 planation
4 obtund
5 ixiodic
38 artificial enclosure for keeping live animals 1 draconites
2 galeiform
3 vivarium
4 zeugma
5 neuston
39 proverb; adage 1 adeniform
2 paroemia
3 threnody
4 grapholagnia
5 thymogenic
40 offerings to the spirits of the dead 1 polygoneutic
2 ecclesiolatry
3 intellectualism
4 inferiae
5 reddendum
Number Question Answer Your answer
41 fond of plants 1 nodality
2 crambo
3 phytophilous
4 hark
5 thurifer
42 line connecting points of equal land upheaval 1 monodont
2 obrogate
3 aponia
4 isobase
5 neuropath
43 fear of books 1 gromatics
2 bibliophobia
3 eromancy
4 ichthyolatry
5 amphigory
44 falling asleep; death 1 parasynthesis
2 dormition
3 alluvion
4 col
5 simillimum
45 cynical 1 byssoid
2 causative
3 disagio
4 diogenic
5 chrematistics
46 navel-gazing 1 carnifex
2 hank
3 leprose
4 omphaloskepsis
5 chancel
47 to ornament the edge of with embroidery 1 sabbatarian
2 proclivitous
3 triarchy
4 dompteuse
5 purfle
48 ship's mast above the lower mast 1 topmast
2 tachistoscope
3 allography
4 couvade
5 avaunt
49 ringing noise in head 1 remontant
2 versus
3 acouasm
4 secundogeniture
5 oratory
50 heavy clothing fabric with crosswise ribs 1 feuilleton
2 varsovienne
3 sellate
4 zooscopy
5 ottoman
Number Question Answer Your answer
51 alleged ability to find an underground water supply 1 abreuvoir
2 alecost
3 seahog
4 pansexualism
5 bletonism
52 soreness of the eyes 1 slurvian
2 grandisonant
3 spiritualism
4 vendition
5 lippitude
53 having second set of teeth that replaces the first 1 privatism
2 diphyodont
3 videlicet
4 wordbreak
5 implex
54 consisting of eggs 1 ovarious
2 born‚
3 acapnotic
4 ootocous
5 litany
55 study of movement in liquids 1 eidograph
2 chrestomathic
3 hydrodynamics
4 polymath
5 melano
56 to cover with forest; to convert into hunting grounds 1 psychotaxis
2 afforest
3 philematophobe
4 neuralgiform
5 protolithic
57 use of words in a sense opposite to literal 1 pulsimeter
2 antiphrasis
3 hyperpyrexia
4 boston
5 asthenopia
58 shaped like a pincer 1 cheliform
2 amanuensis
3 outage
4 idiophone
5 caman
59 factory where iron bars are manufactured 1 bloomery
2 hieratical
3 parentelic
4 tachometer
5 prepossess
60 tower at the corner of a fortification 1 enzone
2 crachoir
3 bastion
4 ossomancy
5 acrophobia
Number Question Answer Your answer
61 belief in the existence of God without special revelation 1 verberate
2 ophiomancy
3 hemiplegic
4 interpunction
5 theism
62 independent existence 1 eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious
2 acoemeti
3 perseity
4 obstriction
5 sautoir
63 extremely keen sight 1 colliform
2 gavelkind
3 oxyblepsia
4 phonation
5 flammiferous
64 gradual decrease; reduction in taxes 1 metopomancy
2 pelisse
3 wuthering
4 demerge
5 degression
65 divination using sounds 1 alveromancy
2 murdrum
3 chiaroscuro
4 threnody
5 nostrification
66 alchemical 1 gorgonize
2 formate
3 infundibuliform
4 spagyric
5 rectigrade
67 emotional experience brought on by religious belief 1 greave
2 disgarnish
3 theopathy
4 accite
5 tanistry
68 downright; unmitigated 1 syllepsis
2 arrant
3 uriniferous
4 hector
5 metameric
69 instrument for measuring amount of oil in a substance 1 drugget
2 heortology
3 ammophilous
4 oleometer
5 polydemic
70 pertaining to formation or development 1 spheromancy
2 cercus
3 morphotic
4 trellis
5 chiasmus
Number Question Answer Your answer
71 to coat metal with oxides to protect from corrosion 1 passivate
2 algology
3 ampliative
4 ageotropic
5 squadrism
72 deafness 1 applanate
2 cophosis
3 zymotic
4 enosis
5 viscometer
73 inflammation of the hair follicles or beard 1 discigerous
2 balanoid
3 spongology
4 lockstep
5 sycosis
74 serene; blissful; angelic 1 bovicide
2 seraphic
3 wroth
4 applanate
5 ostreophagous
75 a person who serves as a foil to another 1 nutation
2 pietism
3 pilaster
4 deuteragonist
5 barbate
76 of a wood or grove 1 nemoral
2 piacular
3 dexiotropic
4 acouasm
5 filiciform
77 return to life after apparent death 1 anabiosis
2 gynotikolobomassophile
3 trichoic
4 recidivism
5 characterology
78 early cinematograph using series of moving drawings 1 pyrrhotism
2 nephelometry
3 praxinoscope
4 pertuse
5 onomastics
79 term for pig's feet as food 1 mistetch
2 coniaker
3 crubeen
4 exspuition
5 dysteleology
80 pertaining to a deity; suffused with religious awe 1 indiscerptible
2 aposiopesis
3 phemic
4 numinous
5 telega
Number Question Answer Your answer
81 divination using dice 1 brayer
2 laquearia
3 citrine
4 cleromancy
5 watchet
82 general name for boots and shoes; footwear 1 volage
2 procrypsis
3 neogenesis
4 bradyseism
5 chaussures
83 having tubers; knobbed 1 arithmomania
2 scelotyrbe
3 tuberous
4 currycomb
5 correption
84 snare with noose and spring 1 mooncalf
2 springe
3 eutechnics
4 embrangle
5 obsolagnium
85 eternal 1 aitchbone
2 engouement
3 cupuliferous
4 zelophobia
5 eviternal
86 stabilizing movement of exchange 1 balbriggan
2 anaphia
3 synaesthesia
4 scapular
5 exodromy
87 instrument for measuring volume of a solid 1 wassail
2 hibernal
3 volumenometer
4 salariat
5 decimestrial
88 of or relating to crypts 1 shrieval
2 ergomania
3 contignation
4 siderose
5 cryptous
89 rocking-stone 1 limbate
2 uxorious
3 logan
4 salpinx
5 hypostasis
90 release or discharge of pus 1 mesial
2 diapyesis
3 nisus
4 m‚salliance
5 pannikin
Number Question Answer Your answer
91 song with a refrain 1 roundelay
2 obnubilate
3 thelitis
4 taximeter
5 redolent
92 marsh or swamp 1 monergism
2 bullary
3 cienega
4 halfpace
5 adscript
93 in vertical ranks 1 telesis
2 pagophagia
3 secundum
4 equiparent
5 rectiserial
94 deed relinquishing a claim, such as a mining title 1 fiduciary
2 agacerie
3 poaceous
4 hagioscope
5 quitclaim
95 truly; certainly; confidently 1 acatamathesia
2 eccaleobion
3 verily
4 ectogenesis
5 lubricious
96 surging 1 plutonic
2 conspecies
3 gurgitation
4 taeniacide
5 postilion
97 brown; tawny; dingy 1 wack
2 psychogenetics
3 demagogue
4 ennomic
5 fuscous
98 fear of pins and needles 1 microcalorimeter
2 rubefaction
3 quipu
4 belonephobia
5 tempestive
99 like or resembling a caterpillar 1 coadjument
2 cystoscope
3 paragram
4 idempotent
5 eruciform
100 colour-blind 1 mineralogy
2 hephaestic
3 gastroscope
4 superjacent
5 dyschromatopic
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