Quiz 27 of 50 -- Obscure and Unusual Words

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 flautist 1 stereotaxis
2 hieromancy
3 aulete
4 zoograft
5 oculiform
2 roughly trilled 1 sorites
2 hirrient
3 introspectionism
4 pomiform
5 antilogism
3 short post on a wharf or ship to which ropes are tied 1 tenendum
2 swissing
3 bollard
4 xylography
5 oast
4 food picked up by swine in woods; right to pasture swine 1 prelation
2 factitious
3 nankeen
4 pannage
5 caboched
5 viral infection of sheep 1 orf
2 phaeism
3 vigia
4 monochromasy
5 potamic
6 giving of an excuse for not appearing in court 1 essoin
2 accipitrine
3 ichthyomorphic
4 ornithoscopy
5 pallograph
7 cross-piece in a scaffolding 1 serous
2 radicated
3 meconomancy
4 baldachin
5 putlock
8 disease 1 ounce
2 balneology
3 novity
4 unguiform
5 morbus
9 instrument for measuring liquid evaporation 1 pulverulent
2 arachibutyrophobia
3 bouillotte
4 siccimeter
5 gossypine
10 having a yolk 1 polemology
2 kinetoscope
3 medicament
4 lecithal
5 eidolon
Number Question Answer Your answer
11 excessive desire to stay in bed 1 hydropathy
2 litotes
3 Panglossian
4 clinomania
5 bodement
12 a hare in its first year; a mistress 1 trefoil
2 usitative
3 kef
4 susurrus
5 leveret
13 strong twilled worsted 1 serge
2 monism
3 agynary
4 paludose
5 quince
14 short pieces of fibre separated from longer ones by combing 1 sudd
2 rotograph
3 gymnasiarch
4 noils
5 brodequin
15 of or relating to the shore of a body of water 1 tetrakishexahedron
2 mythogenesis
3 littoral
4 staminiferous
5 rhytidectomy
16 trembling; quivering 1 graminology
2 tremulous
3 recherch‚
4 pseudosmia
5 aguardiente
17 origin and development of a single individual organism 1 sanguinolent
2 ontogenesis
3 seisin
4 teratism
5 nocent
18 the eucharist; the act of taking the eucharist 1 sanative
2 undeify
3 aigrette
4 succise
5 housel
19 petty politician 1 heresiology
2 politicaster
3 puture
4 monoecious
5 acropathy
20 elbow 1 abecedarian
2 hypocaust
3 exsert
4 triarchy
5 ancon
Number Question Answer Your answer
21 clergyman temporarily replacing regular priest 1 uriniferous
2 erythema
3 thermogenesis
4 parthenogenesis
5 locum
22 broken spear; broken or cut piece 1 truncheon
2 selenomancy
3 hederaceous
4 windcheater
5 alkanet
23 toast to good health 1 phalacrosis
2 hydrobiology
3 thewe
4 hippology
5 prosit
24 communication trench 1 emulge
2 whippy
3 excursive
4 boyau
5 nocuous
25 detailed organization; settlement 1 gewgaw
2 hypothecary
3 bandobast
4 millocracy
5 chorology
26 instrument for measuring strength of alkalines 1 veridical
2 gynaecide
3 thymogenic
4 ptilosis
5 alkalimeter
27 having a blistered or puckered appearance 1 bullate
2 hauberk
3 hyperdulia
4 liard
5 tympaniform
28 study of life under cold conditions 1 palladian
2 sindonology
3 silesia
4 hypalgesia
5 cryobiology
29 in four similar or equal parts 1 monergism
2 quadrigeminal
3 lagniappe
4 galimatias
5 quiddity
30 chaffy; like or resembling chaff 1 nomothetical
2 paleaceous
3 biduous
4 anaclastic
5 autophobia
Number Question Answer Your answer
31 relating to or obtained from milk 1 trivet
2 mulm
3 sedent
4 galactic
5 paleaceous
32 light four-wheeled carriage with fixed top and open sides 1 aggry
2 timbromania
3 rockaway
4 czardas
5 galeiform
33 shaped like a saddle 1 glottogonic
2 exarate
3 tanti
4 naupathia
5 selliform
34 a scheming or corrupt politician 1 deprehend
2 xenomorphic
3 frugivorous
4 rigescent
5 highbinder
35 belief that the methods of science are universally applicable 1 scientism
2 temenos
3 somnolence
4 jebel
5 cleithral
36 magic lantern used for opaque and translucent objects 1 dispone
2 epidiascope
3 somnorific
4 eyas
5 sumpsimus
37 study of bodies and forces in equilibrium 1 sord
2 statics
3 topophobia
4 zootoxin
5 stuprate
38 to light or light up again 1 eth
2 knag
3 terry
4 relume
5 cienega
39 duel or fight between two people 1 duomachy
2 counterscarp
3 kohlrabi
4 hagiarchy
5 phaeic
40 belligerent; cruel; pugnacious; defiant; aggressive 1 noctidiurnal
2 chatoyant
3 dromond
4 laniferous
5 truculent
Number Question Answer Your answer
41 formation of minerals as a joined mass 1 minauderie
2 paragenesis
3 burke
4 haysel
5 limnophilous
42 school of philosophical instruction 1 lyceum
2 tarlatan
3 ligulate
4 renitent
5 quint
43 shaped like a leather bottle or flask 1 bibitory
2 thropple
3 festilogy
4 cleronomy
5 utriform
44 in spiral form 1 saltigrade
2 voluted
3 zeze
4 hydrography
5 tyriasis
45 ancient double-reed wind instrument 1 alb
2 gruine
3 phalacrosis
4 spodogenous
5 krummhorn
46 materialism 1 counterblast
2 somatism
3 sporiferous
4 hotchpot
5 gerascophobia
47 denial that the soul exists in space 1 historiology
2 nullibilism
3 anteambulo
4 solatium
5 gullery
48 ancestral 1 trichosis
2 avital
3 leguleian
4 grough
5 imbricate
49 goatlike 1 phonometer
2 kamik
3 viridigenous
4 capriform
5 palter
50 image-worship 1 iconolatry
2 deprehend
3 anandrious
4 formication
5 ana
Number Question Answer Your answer
51 fine chain mail jacket 1 noumenon
2 thermantidote
3 protoplast
4 amidships
5 jaseran
52 capable of or relating to thought 1 dianoetic
2 adiapneustia
3 balatron
4 obtest
5 hygrometry
53 to hunt birds; to pursue prey with vigilance 1 aucupate
2 epigamic
3 cholic
4 undinism
5 trochilic
54 contradiction 1 dittology
2 volant
3 demagogue
4 spancel
5 antilogy
55 having several broods in one season 1 workerist
2 cruset
3 galactoid
4 langlauf
5 multivoltine
56 seed-bearing 1 seminiferous
2 apsidal
3 dicaeology
4 hatchment
5 polystomatous
57 flowing out; gushing 1 emolument
2 amorce
3 parr
4 nervine
5 scaturient
58 impotent 1 gauffer
2 annulet
3 ectobatic
4 parakinesis
5 anandrious
59 property necessary to maintain one's station 1 cyclosis
2 archididascalos
3 tumefacient
4 pseudogyny
5 contenement
60 curved furniture leg ending in a ball; exuberant dance or caper 1 evulgate
2 cabriole
3 worksome
4 loranthaceous
5 lemures
Number Question Answer Your answer
61 veterinary surgery 1 pruinose
2 zoiatrics
3 quadrivial
4 wagonette
5 discission
62 three-toed sloth 1 sennit
2 forcipiform
3 phonation
4 plumassier
5 ai
63 impermeability to radiant energy 1 adiathermancy
2 enantiosis
3 tyromancy
4 contemn
5 nacket
64 sprinkled 1 sprent
2 arrogate
3 menisciform
4 logia
5 plebeian
65 to whitewash 1 incubus
2 obtenebrate
3 calathiform
4 calcimine
5 ovuliferous
66 expression used to attract attention 1 dit
2 tentiginous
3 hist
4 ripienist
5 azimuth
67 science of housekeeping 1 oikology
2 pourboire
3 orchidomania
4 symbolaeography
5 stiction
68 to grind cereal coarsely 1 adamantine
2 albugineous
3 trigamy
4 maculomancy
5 kibble
69 relating to wisdom or learning 1 scud
2 batrachian
3 macrography
4 grandisonant
5 palladian
70 writing in signs rather than letters 1 chrysopoetics
2 hobnail
3 epilate
4 sematography
5 biramous
Number Question Answer Your answer
71 pitchfork; dungfork 1 embayment
2 ablegate
3 graip
4 rookery
5 trover
72 divination by means of spirits 1 gramercy
2 expiate
3 psychomancy
4 disomus
5 reglet
73 young fowl 1 emporeutic
2 poult
3 rufescent
4 depascent
5 primogenous
74 waterproof stucco 1 Mariology
2 synaeresis
3 sarangousty
4 cloaca
5 porrect
75 of or relating to building; structural 1 raptus
2 biduous
3 laxism
4 tectonic
5 brackish
76 after marriage 1 alepine
2 gastromancy
3 postconnubial
4 euphobia
5 tritical
77 fine lustrous fabric with flat patterns and a satin weave 1 proband
2 zakuska
3 damask
4 bisociation
5 ochre
78 wooden frame with holes for head and hands used as punishment 1 aval
2 atticism
3 pillory
4 compunction
5 antependium
79 able to sail close to the wind with little leeway 1 weatherly
2 ratheripe
3 ravelin
4 scyphiform
5 hymeneal
80 to crow or triumph over 1 starveling
2 gnosiology
3 overcrow
4 somatology
5 chock
Number Question Answer Your answer
81 puppet ruler; do-nothing; idle person 1 masterate
2 syzygy
3 fain‚ant
4 mascaron
5 bradyseism
82 killing or killer of a tyrant 1 tyrannicide
2 valuta
3 lachrymogenic
4 geitonogamy
5 tetrachotomous
83 numbering of individuals; head tax 1 capitation
2 marivaudage
3 acceptilation
4 hodoscope
5 derrick
84 anti-abortion term for an abortion clinic 1 expiate
2 fingent
3 rataplan
4 anele
5 abortuary
85 bearing little cells 1 celluliferous
2 ultimo
3 paramatta
4 imburse
5 preconize
86 multiple vision 1 pellucid
2 upher
3 philosophaster
4 polyopia
5 patible
87 state of great leanness 1 retromorphosis
2 marcidity
3 dippydro
4 chevisance
5 mixotrophic
88 fitful plucking at the bedclothes 1 floccilation
2 chirotony
3 definiens
4 agrapha
5 jesuitical
89 excessive devotion to martyrs 1 cathetometer
2 gyrus
3 martyrolatry
4 astraphobia
5 cryoscope
90 pipette with hollow bulb for counting drops 1 hithermost
2 stactometer
3 fringilliform
4 steganograph
5 alameda
Number Question Answer Your answer
91 to engage in irreverent wit 1 ekphrasis
2 witwanton
3 maculose
4 arctophile
5 triptych
92 objector 1 gerendum
2 ecclesiology
3 subtrist
4 objicient
5 zopp
93 effectual; actually achieving a result 1 syringadenous
2 hircine
3 precisian
4 perficient
5 simity
94 having extremely small feet 1 pleonexia
2 heterochrony
3 vervelle
4 defiliation
5 micropodal
95 private language developed between children 1 paizogony
2 interim
3 abutment
4 acutiator
5 idioglossia
96 watered appearance on cloth or metal 1 gnotobiology
2 bibliomancy
3 pseudolalia
4 virgule
5 moir‚
97 pertaining to protective mimicry of animals 1 parastatic
2 lupanarian
3 panurgic
4 logia
5 tiffany
98 unit of data transmission speed of one bit per second 1 nymphean
2 jaconet
3 baud
4 tautological
5 plegometer
99 woman's work basket or handbag 1 kistvaen
2 cabas
3 keelson
4 fustigate
5 tontine
100 instrument for measuring magnetic declination 1 besom
2 acratia
3 variometer
4 circumvolution
5 ombrophobia
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