Quiz 32 of 50 -- Obscure and Unusual Words

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 to cause to become a monk 1 periculous
2 araneidan
3 ridgeling
4 monachise
5 machicolation
2 early training; first experience; group of recruits 1 macrocosm
2 decalogist
3 irascent
4 patagium
5 tirocinium
3 totally solid 1 megachiropteran
2 highbinder
3 kirpan
4 holosteric
5 bilious
4 thick; muddy 1 nephelometry
2 mandament
3 chaldron
4 rood
5 lutulent
5 marine; type of sea turtle 1 kazatzka
2 acroamatic
3 didapper
4 prepense
5 thalassian
6 song or poem composed for weddings 1 rachis
2 theophagy
3 drysalter
4 epithalamion
5 scapulomancy
7 horizontal crosspieces at a masthead used to support ship's mast 1 stole
2 ch“mage
3 diplomatics
4 crosstrees
5 zapateado
8 state of being tired or weary 1 dag
2 potamic
3 onager
4 exoculate
5 lassitude
9 instrument for measuring mechanical force 1 dynamometer
2 acinaciform
3 travelator
4 xanthodont
5 cismontane
10 term for books of inappropriate or lewd nature 1 pavonated
2 kouros
3 lucimeter
4 photoglyph
5 facetiae
Number Question Answer Your answer
11 study of interaction of life in the environment 1 orillion
2 alphitomancy
3 bioecology
4 merdivorous
5 prolusion
12 incapable of coexisting 1 salify
2 spavined
3 lanigerous
4 incompossible
5 inimical
13 close-set; packed together without gaps 1 skelic
2 paracme
3 ansate
4 bordereau
5 serried
14 baby-sitter 1 xylology
2 pontist
3 ingeminate
4 bersatrix
5 plegometer
15 umbrella-shaped portion of a mushroom 1 caricology
2 pileus
3 holderbat
4 thanatism
5 succursal
16 rough with or covered with strong hairs or bristles 1 retinoid
2 patination
3 hispid
4 camelot
5 welk
17 to fatten animals 1 theriodic
2 quantometer
3 mephitic
4 saginate
5 vernissage
18 bearing or carrying milk 1 ultramicroscope
2 raduliform
3 osculate
4 galactophorous
5 barrulet
19 to vanish; to die away 1 graphospasm
2 pantler
3 penetrometer
4 awn
5 evanish
20 thick slice of veal or similar meat 1 fricandeau
2 peccable
3 saurophagous
4 simous
5 glandiferous
Number Question Answer Your answer
21 like or resembling a mosquito 1 saprophyte
2 quelch
3 culiciform
4 accismus
5 kritarchy
22 a rooster 1 ophiomancy
2 chanticleer
3 delirifacient
4 pentalogy
5 naricorn
23 done for show or display 1 hypocaust
2 agonistic
3 sinapise
4 pensum
5 epideictic
24 rupture of a blood-vessel 1 corbeau
2 orarion
3 rhexis
4 heliosciophyte
5 ingle
25 lust-provoking 1 selliform
2 chronostichon
3 jess
4 tentiginous
5 melanochroic
26 butting like a ram 1 whipcord
2 animism
3 runagate
4 antistrophe
5 petulcous
27 collection of church hymns 1 lapicide
2 extravasate
3 hymnal
4 abba
5 pedicle
28 instrument for measuring small changes in atmospheric pressure 1 acre-breadth
2 bicorn
3 inanition
4 lenitive
5 statoscope
29 childish speech; mispronunciation of speech sounds 1 lallation
2 burrel
3 encomic
4 primo
5 intertesselation
30 bearing gypsum 1 cenacle
2 lardaceous
3 circumambient
4 gantry
5 gypsiferous
Number Question Answer Your answer
31 refractivity 1 radiometeorograph
2 adiapneustia
3 refringency
4 epopee
5 ochre
32 of or pertaining to singing 1 cantative
2 epizoic
3 peregrination
4 cataphract
5 nychthemeron
33 half in jest; half serious 1 lunarist
2 quarterlight
3 beloid
4 jocoserious
5 ichnomancy
34 study of primates 1 concubitant
2 polyommatous
3 latten
4 hydrotimeter
5 primatology
35 bearing or producing amber 1 hapaxanthous
2 succiniferous
3 cellaret
4 batholith
5 heliotaxis
36 cargo carried by or fee for carrying cargo by lighter 1 dosimetry
2 lighterage
3 temerarious
4 vagility
5 grobianism
37 surveyor's instrument used to measure angles 1 glandiferous
2 circumforentor
3 omophagy
4 vulpicide
5 weatherly
38 constipation 1 trunnion
2 raptus
3 positivism
4 theodolite
5 stegnosis
39 alloy used to imitate gold 1 bobstay
2 calix
3 circiter
4 oroide
5 bavian
40 shaped like a shell 1 lam‚
2 habile
3 drail
4 conchiform
5 teramorphous
Number Question Answer Your answer
41 silent 1 toxicogenic
2 polyopia
3 lassitude
4 agonistics
5 conticent
42 lightly armed skirmisher 1 preadamic
2 parhelion
3 marmoreal
4 siffilate
5 voltigeur
43 pertaining to abbots or an abbey 1 oenology
2 abbatial
3 symphily
4 parisyllabic
5 esclandre
44 divination by means of oracles 1 perfectibilian
2 theomancy
3 dioptrics
4 ribibe
5 cynophobia
45 red-yellow; yellow-brown 1 diurnation
2 paratonic
3 beadsman
4 lurid
5 prosodemic
46 the art of bell ringing 1 campanology
2 pathopoeia
3 tornote
4 abatis
5 parr
47 stole of an Orthodox priest or bishop 1 epitrachelion
2 metaphrase
3 overset
4 pheretrer
5 pounce
48 stiff neck 1 latifundia
2 torticollis
3 lachrymogenic
4 stratonic
5 joculator
49 kneecap 1 stenometer
2 theotechny
3 rotula
4 hippophobe
5 epistatic
50 smuggling wool or sheep 1 brocard
2 amyloid
3 owling
4 skerry
5 bulbiferous
Number Question Answer Your answer
51 small ship's flag used for identification or signalling 1 burgee
2 lares
3 logogram
4 grabble
5 grain
52 exorcist 1 benet
2 vegetivorous
3 pavonian
4 astrobolism
5 tonetics
53 mood signifying doubt or incertitude 1 alastrim
2 berm
3 spikenard
4 dubitative
5 thoracoscope
54 of or relating to squirrels or chipmunks 1 auxesis
2 keloid
3 marchpane
4 cladoptosis
5 sciuroid
55 of or relating to bees 1 apian
2 utriculiform
3 syncategorematic
4 expurgate
5 taupe
56 outstanding; conspicuous; jumping forth 1 dromond
2 luxmeter
3 parabolanus
4 prosilient
5 ovopyriform
57 annotation to an argument written in margin 1 spokeshave
2 dromestoners
3 scholion
4 portreeve
5 marl
58 to place in a bower; to shelter with trees 1 inviscate
2 fructuation
3 embower
4 venereology
5 disbosom
59 ornamental necklace, collar or headband 1 laitance
2 contesseration
3 latticinio
4 quatrayle
5 carcanet
60 dry; lacking in moisture 1 huckaback
2 storge
3 xeric
4 daedal
5 pelology
Number Question Answer Your answer
61 divided into either two or three parts 1 cleithral
2 selenomancy
3 bellipotent
4 ditrichotomous
5 utriculiform
62 fear of pregnancy or childbirth 1 tocophobia
2 quaternity
3 pterylology
4 aurulent
5 antimony
63 coming to fruit or bearing of fruit 1 paginal
2 gurgitation
3 fructuation
4 prothonotary
5 eutaxy
64 continuing; not completed; undergoing transformation 1 cybernate
2 moorlog
3 durative
4 empery
5 ecocide
65 which cannot be returned; irrevocable 1 cypseline
2 yerk
3 irremeable
4 birl
5 jubate
66 triangular sail rigged on ship's spar 1 voltmeter
2 vimen
3 steen
4 lateen
5 polliniferous
67 climbing shoes with hemp soles 1 inculcate
2 roborean
3 ulmaceous
4 eradiate
5 scarpetti
68 belief that nothing is real except the soul or spirit 1 spiritualism
2 twain
3 decatise
4 absit
5 dirigism
69 decorative trimming of beads or braid 1 virology
2 regula
3 passement
4 telmatology
5 festilogy
70 study of midwifery 1 ankyroid
2 irrisory
3 melisma
4 pancratic
5 obstetrics
Number Question Answer Your answer
71 divination by falling from dizziness 1 gyromancy
2 acyesis
3 matroclinic
4 fug
5 simity
72 spike or antler used as a candlestick 1 caprifoliaceous
2 kilobase
3 pricket
4 dight
5 stylobate
73 rough pole made of fir and used in scaffolding 1 nisus
2 somnolence
3 suaveolent
4 zoopery
5 upher
74 possession of more than one structure by a substance 1 tautomerism
2 parure
3 xenophilia
4 epideictic
5 trahison
75 atrociously wicked 1 gyrograph
2 tregetour
3 saprostomous
4 topophobia
5 facinorous
76 reviving 1 jaculiferous
2 exoculate
3 multifid
4 reviviscent
5 xenial
77 short instrumental prelude or interlude in opera 1 ritornel
2 sphygmometer
3 stylobate
4 swarf
5 turtleback
78 milky 1 thoracoscope
2 hesychastic
3 lacteous
4 tonsure
5 quadratrix
79 bold sea rover 1 sawder
2 ramiferous
3 seacock
4 bottomry
5 isanemone
80 left-handed 1 gardyloo
2 hypnoid
3 sinistromanual
4 mizzenmast
5 nim
Number Question Answer Your answer
81 mucus; mucilage 1 septemfluous
2 demegoric
3 mucago
4 exterritority
5 rheometer
82 fear of poisoning 1 toxicophobia
2 washeteria
3 comose
4 capias
5 growlery
83 collection and study of beer bottle labels 1 gracility
2 labeorphily
3 marasmus
4 skelder
5 ebullition
84 to squabble or quarrel 1 brabble
2 slumberous
3 tribuloid
4 glair
5 sext
85 indicating motion up to or as far as 1 lative
2 agronomics
3 psychagogue
4 picine
5 circumambagious
86 place where four roads meet; intersection of roads at center of a town 1 taphrogenesis
2 kop
3 dendroid
4 carfax
5 cloaca
87 tufted 1 filatory
2 polyommatous
3 diarchy
4 comiphorous
5 talaric
88 dead tree or tree decayed at top 1 rampick
2 amain
3 girasol
4 pabulum
5 idiopathic
89 hairless; smooth 1 endeictic
2 eclosion
3 glabrous
4 acolouthic
5 alvine
90 sitting of a court; gathering; long discussion 1 acolous
2 sederunt
3 tabacosis
4 pseudophonia
5 campaniform
Number Question Answer Your answer
91 a little ewe 1 splanchnic
2 yird
3 yowie
4 anthesis
5 compaginate
92 shifting the eyes from left to right 1 sequacious
2 stomp
3 dextroduction
4 villus
5 prosodemic
93 instrument for visually detecting alpha particles 1 sylviculture
2 spinthariscope
3 fardage
4 libidinist
5 synedrion
94 panoramic view of a town 1 kohl
2 panurgic
3 polyopia
4 enteral
5 veduta
95 pale green; pale green glazed pottery 1 swansdown
2 characterology
3 jenneting
4 celadon
5 calathiform
96 carved tablet kissed by priest during celebration of mass 1 vicennial
2 accipitral
3 hirudinean
4 pyrheliometer
5 osculatory
97 folk dance in which two lines of couples face each other 1 wanze
2 microbiology
3 contredanse
4 pismirism
5 pelmatogram
98 bird-like archaic flying machine 1 fenestral
2 ornithopter
3 theanthropic
4 ootocous
5 poitrel
99 obsessive preoccupation with numbers 1 protensive
2 meromorphic
3 trigonometer
4 vug
5 arithmomania
100 slenderness or smallness; refinement 1 milliammeter
2 zorino
3 gulosity
4 olid
5 exility
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