Quiz 31 of 50 -- Obscure and Unusual Words

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 execution by drowning 1 ultrafidian
2 steatopygous
3 ophiomancy
4 noyade
5 iconostasis
2 sphere projected onto a plane; map of the heavens 1 hygiology
2 gremial
3 snood
4 duende
5 planisphere
3 physical force at work in telepathy 1 telergy
2 genophobia
3 cathisophobia
4 sociobiology
5 laicisation
4 lecherous; bawdy; lewd 1 gyve
2 lac
3 cruciform
4 psychogenetics
5 pornerastic
5 line connecting points of equal aspect of climate 1 lobular
2 cellaret
3 isopleth
4 merino
5 antiscian
6 half-yearly 1 semestral
2 demegoric
3 sententious
4 inosculate
5 aponia
7 to confirm; to agree; to ratify 1 homologate
2 mordacious
3 proplasm
4 anguiform
5 vitiferous
8 wife of a viceroy 1 vicereine
2 senary
3 wisket
4 colliform
5 culm
9 shrewlike; of or relating to shrews 1 urticant
2 procursive
3 soricine
4 planography
5 soporific
10 bringing or binding together; conjunction 1 micropolis
2 unstercorated
3 missal
4 colligation
5 pythonism
Number Question Answer Your answer
11 clothes; covering; coat 1 sacring
2 chignon
3 elutriate
4 pantophobia
5 vestiture
12 fabric with horizontal stripes in strongly contrasting colours 1 resection
2 keelson
3 taupe
4 bayadere
5 freeboard
13 identicality in substance 1 barcarole
2 contenement
3 anthropoglot
4 meldometer
5 homoousia
14 clan or tribe 1 phratry
2 triphthong
3 cosmocrat
4 pandiculation
5 bezique
15 on guard 1 multisonant
2 estacade
3 excubant
4 avital
5 talalgia
16 hand-shaped 1 postscenium
2 agonistic
3 nankeen
4 bitts
5 palmate
17 bony; bone-like 1 acerate
2 osteoid
3 anopsia
4 foss
5 parasynesis
18 of or pertaining to the wing or shoulder 1 culver
2 alar
3 anaclastic
4 familistere
5 sarment
19 resembling wax 1 ceraceous
2 tocology
3 speculum
4 corium
5 epiphenomenalism
20 occupying the same regions but not interbreeding 1 sympatric
2 geomancy
3 gorgonize
4 sigmate
5 homonym
Number Question Answer Your answer
21 relating to unconscious logical thought 1 hypnoetic
2 rescript
3 munificence
4 compeer
5 vinewed
22 of or pertaining to gulls 1 reticulate
2 laroid
3 organdie
4 retiform
5 phonasthenia
23 lying or exaggerating to an abnormal extent 1 deixis
2 dextroduction
3 obstriction
4 jointure
5 mythomania
24 adherent of doctrine that pleasure is ultimate goal 1 delope
2 xerodermia
3 anagalactic
4 cyrenaic
5 paradisiacal
25 able to be explained 1 arenaceous
2 torsiograph
3 exponible
4 zootrophy
5 pelology
26 study of drugs 1 peristrephic
2 pharmacology
3 woning
4 banausic
5 bodach
27 secret or illegal church assembly 1 hirsuties
2 codicil
3 conventicle
4 integument
5 clastic
28 to command; to order; to prohibit by injunction 1 potatory
2 enjoin
3 tractile
4 zooid
5 minuet
29 flag pole at stern of a ship 1 flagstaff
2 gasiform
3 epideictic
4 humectation
5 teleonomy
30 shaped like a stalk 1 stipiform
2 jobbery
3 qigong
4 aceldama
5 thermonous
Number Question Answer Your answer
31 producing many or several at a birth 1 pteric
2 falsidical
3 marquisette
4 polytocous
5 poriferous
32 well-read individual; person with wide knowledge of books 1 cyllosis
2 bibliognost
3 lateritious
4 pontifice
5 bangtail
33 fine given to married women for adultery 1 lairwite
2 papilliform
3 abask
4 marline
5 paedonymic
34 attractive to the other sex 1 epigamic
2 attainder
3 lethe
4 nidifugous
5 alluvion
35 first or direct experience 1 nebbich
2 supernal
3 tonometer
4 stretcher
5 protopathy
36 riffraff; proletarian; the mob; rabble 1 coacervate
2 monoculus
3 limner
4 canaille
5 cavernicolous
37 line connecting points of equal subterranean temperature 1 mammose
2 lexigram
3 capstan
4 burnet
5 isogeotherm
38 of or having a hard shell; brick-red 1 decantate
2 lanuginose
3 downhaul
4 gault
5 testaceous
39 lackey; person employed to do various jobs 1 cenote
2 factotum
3 thermograph
4 celadon
5 resorb
40 silk and wool watered fabric 1 paysage
2 collogue
3 malaguena
4 tabinet
5 insculp
Number Question Answer Your answer
41 means of ending legislative debate 1 pandemonism
2 cloture
3 frangible
4 estaminet
5 ectogenesis
42 instrument for solving triangles 1 proceleusmatic
2 phonendoscope
3 trigonometer
4 spider
5 pinacotheca
43 to blend together; to adapt 1 mammiform
2 grapholagnia
3 contemper
4 mountenance
5 tranchet
44 having the quality of binding or uniting firmly 1 preconcert
2 insculp
3 Momus
4 kinetics
5 cementatory
45 restrictive influence of the past on the present 1 ell
2 bausond
3 exenterate
4 mortmain
5 fossick
46 instrument for measuring evaporating capacity of air 1 algedonics
2 preseminal
3 counterscarp
4 atmometer
5 badinage
47 government by mobs or crowds 1 tegmental
2 vulpicide
3 scoria
4 heteroecious
5 mobocracy
48 mine used to destroy underground enemy emplacement 1 trigonometer
2 synoeciosis
3 valorise
4 camouflet
5 pyretology
49 condition of legal nullification 1 supra
2 jibboom
3 diriment
4 zalambdodont
5 helminthiasis
50 opening in a skirt or shirt for a pocket 1 refugium
2 whipstall
3 kinetheodolite
4 candescent
5 placket
Number Question Answer Your answer
51 doctrine that there is only one kind of existence 1 volable
2 jannock
3 mazarine
4 henism
5 hepatoscopy
52 fighting while heavily armoured 1 hogget
2 opisometer
3 hoplomachy
4 trismus
5 treenail
53 readily flowing away 1 saprophyte
2 fimetic
3 diffluent
4 syntexis
5 ollamh
54 deep gully in peat moor area 1 xeric
2 grough
3 lacertiform
4 sublineation
5 crepehanger
55 softening a painting using a dry brush 1 myrmecology
2 fanion
3 sylviculture
4 scumble
5 yarborough
56 between stars 1 intersidereal
2 remora
3 entitative
4 castellar
5 lachrymatory
57 stupidity 1 microclimatology
2 hebetude
3 ebeneous
4 chirospasm
5 colubriform
58 mollusks including snails; slugs; whelks 1 lauds
2 gastropod
3 responsory
4 hyperdulia
5 equipluve
59 origin and evolution as if branching from common ancestor 1 erethism
2 aphicide
3 cladogenesis
4 highbinder
5 tempore
60 producing or produced in urine 1 hauberk
2 somnipathy
3 tonish
4 urogenous
5 lardaceous
Number Question Answer Your answer
61 additional name; surname; nickname 1 chaussures
2 verbigeration
3 propadeuctic
4 succorrhoea
5 agnomen
62 swimming upstream 1 mechanolatry
2 torpillage
3 contranatant
4 tragomaschalia
5 nulliparous
63 mountain climber 1 panjandrum
2 juratory
3 foremast
4 alpenstocker
5 exstrophy
64 abatement of heat; coolness; decrease of fever 1 poundal
2 sideroscope
3 defervescence
4 gomphiasis
5 stereoscope
65 primordial; primitive 1 videlicet
2 doryphorus
3 cella
4 protomorphic
5 piscivorous
66 anything forked 1 fourchette
2 largition
3 mournival
4 peck
5 gratulatory
67 irrational propensity for spending money wastefully 1 squandermania
2 imsonic
3 haurient
4 zooid
5 aggry
68 irregularity of the teeth 1 microtome
2 hyperhidrosis
3 vindemial
4 odontoloxia
5 didymous
69 capable of being sold 1 vendible
2 hobbledehoy
3 whin
4 abulia
5 fuliginous
70 of or relating to the moon 1 selenic
2 noctilucent
3 palmary
4 transfluent
5 vermiculous
Number Question Answer Your answer
71 ignorance 1 postliminy
2 ferroniŠre
3 hawkshaw
4 agnosy
5 larvicide
72 fugitive 1 severalty
2 kex
3 lamister
4 duumvirate
5 verglas
73 full; entire; complete; absolute; unqualified 1 roturier
2 plenary
3 seine
4 scissile
5 sialogogue
74 a rock formation containing water 1 postdiluvian
2 koniscope
3 aquifer
4 urbicolous
5 spectrology
75 to neigh; to bleat 1 whicker
2 scalariform
3 juncaceous
4 circumaviate
5 rundle
76 U-shaped fastener with pin used to close the open end 1 anlace
2 amadelphous
3 chancery
4 banderol
5 clevis
77 description of sacred things 1 obmutescent
2 geratology
3 cassideous
4 hierography
5 dispiteous
78 excess 1 aegrotat
2 scintillometer
3 nimiety
4 clysmian
5 malvaceous
79 utterance 1 ancoral
2 yowie
3 prolation
4 subduplicate
5 pyrokinesis
80 to cut plates out of many books to illustrate one 1 grangerize
2 pullulate
3 lampadomancy
4 gramary
5 otalgia
Number Question Answer Your answer
81 edible pastry sculpture served between main courses 1 cambium
2 oroide
3 lipothymy
4 madescent
5 entremets
82 art of producing and staging dramatic works 1 calumet
2 dramaturgy
3 geoponics
4 laeotropic
5 culmiferous
83 bearing a disc or discus 1 geocentrism
2 geromorphism
3 discigerous
4 opificer
5 rackrent
84 marking the beginning or formation 1 whitecoat
2 leiotrichous
3 circumpose
4 inceptive
5 reddendum
85 killing or slaughter of a sacrificial victim 1 proclisis
2 mactation
3 skive
4 egoism
5 woodwose
86 instrument for recording fluid pressure 1 isogeotherm
2 eolation
3 motte
4 reprography
5 kymograph
87 killing of trypanosomes 1 libertinage
2 excogitate
3 fascine
4 fanal
5 trypanocide
88 divination using small objects 1 moriform
2 asseveration
3 dichogamous
4 attrahent
5 micromancy
89 of an animal's coloration or markings 1 frigolabile
2 apatetic
3 drumlin
4 chiromancy
5 prevision
90 acting in place of another; having delegated authority 1 hierography
2 omoplatoscopy
3 prescind
4 vicegerent
5 cowcat
Number Question Answer Your answer
91 bearing leaves; leaf-like 1 syndyasmian
2 bdellotomy
3 mussitation
4 cosmetology
5 foliaceous
92 bringing out latent thoughts; socratic 1 castramentation
2 gu‚ridon
3 maieutic
4 hebephrenia
5 decimestrial
93 helmsman 1 consilience
2 octad
3 timoneer
4 alluvion
5 cantatrice
94 obsession with flowers 1 pathopoeia
2 ligniform
3 adoral
4 anthomania
5 obsequies
95 insincere or glib assent 1 ufology
2 ramuliferous
3 podalic
4 assentation
5 catamite
96 pessimist; gloomy person 1 bema
2 crepehanger
3 catoptric
4 mutchkin
5 succorrhoea
97 letter for letter 1 literatim
2 intercostal
3 victoria
4 radix
5 haplography
98 to pour or diffuse through or over 1 prorrhesis
2 forfaiting
3 perfuse
4 mnemotechny
5 toman
99 marked with winding and haphazard lines 1 rivulose
2 batrachophobia
3 pantograph
4 smalto
5 architrave
100 pertaining to holidays 1 barograph
2 silviculture
3 ferial
4 excresence
5 hotchpot
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