Quiz 38 of 50 -- Obscure and Unusual Words

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 a pronghorn 1 buccal
2 cabrie
3 pelmatogram
4 jibboom
5 pennaceous
2 instrument for measuring proportion of alcohol in solutions 1 hieromancy
2 pessimal
3 cesious
4 alcoholometer
5 malloseismic
3 of or pertaining to mortgages 1 hypothecary
2 roup
3 exoculate
4 opinicus
5 ontogenesis
4 act of giving, conferring or donating 1 misogallic
2 furibund
3 sonification
4 ombr‚
5 dation
5 setting at little or no value 1 hawsehole
2 floccinaucinihilipilification
3 paraphasia
4 oncology
5 seriatim
6 shaped like a thorn 1 hieroscopy
2 ecydisis
3 tachometer
4 aculeiform
5 myomancy
7 fear of the number thirteen 1 tombac
2 desiderium
3 nosism
4 triskaidekaphobia
5 synoecize
8 living with another; dwelling in another creature's lair 1 kep
2 inquiline
3 farouche
4 zootoxin
5 caruncle
9 four-wheeled springless wagon 1 younker
2 telega
3 rhinogenous
4 bouillotte
5 almuce
10 the gullet or windpipe 1 redhibition
2 kumiss
3 weasand
4 complot
5 astrogony
Number Question Answer Your answer
11 doctrine that ideas rather than external objects are basis of knowledge 1 helictite
2 representationalism
3 excresence
4 ogee
5 interlunation
12 prodigy; miracle; thaumaturgy 1 triskaidekaphobia
2 jibboom
3 terry
4 wonderwork
5 xyster
13 ram; pile-driver; striking face of steam hammer or jackhammer 1 memoriter
2 tensimeter
3 tantivy
4 tup
5 hobnail
14 punning 1 adnomination
2 maskirovka
3 assuefaction
4 flacon
5 disquisition
15 solid figure with each face a parallelogram 1 propitiate
2 caryatid
3 anta
4 pelology
5 parallelepiped
16 delay 1 scaphoid
2 wive
3 struthious
4 mora
5 larithmics
17 yellowish white 1 cabotage
2 bandolier
3 ochroleucous
4 discept
5 bordereau
18 lasting for an immeasurably long period of time 1 graupel
2 dialectology
3 bausond
4 gnomon
5 aeonian
19 inducing sweat 1 swarf
2 hodiernal
3 hypostrophe
4 dalton
5 sudatory
20 mortuary 1 deadhouse
2 coffle
3 parvis
4 loxodromy
5 greige
Number Question Answer Your answer
21 partition between chimney flues 1 schesis
2 withe
3 styliferous
4 antistrophe
5 acarology
22 lame; broken down; decrepit 1 psychagogue
2 spavined
3 phenogenesis
4 philotechnical
5 dendrophilous
23 a small pocket violin 1 pomaceous
2 kit
3 retiary
4 abba
5 jaggery
24 shortness of breath 1 anhelation
2 curmurring
3 anaudia
4 responsory
5 tophaceous
25 rapacious; of or pertaining to a vulture 1 r‚seau
2 vulturine
3 spectrograph
4 verticil
5 madefy
26 above; earlier in a text 1 sounder
2 supra
3 lawn
4 adjudge
5 tachyscope
27 symptoms of pregnancy suffered by the father 1 pellucid
2 carucate
3 pyrogenous
4 couvade
5 cladistics
28 bass soloist in a choir 1 weftage
2 diverticulum
3 pole
4 anbury
5 succentor
29 osprey 1 commorant
2 ossifrage
3 technography
4 morgue
5 flapdoodle
30 completely roofed over 1 villatic
2 quasquicentennial
3 fructivorous
4 cleithral
5 zymology
Number Question Answer Your answer
31 tuft of hair immediately above horse's hoof 1 fetlock
2 exarate
3 rictal
4 fleuret
5 stepney
32 of or pertaining to butchers or executioners 1 carnificial
2 ekka
3 percipient
4 sexton
5 stomacher
33 divination using wax 1 ablative
2 decalescence
3 ceroscopy
4 lavatory
5 waqf
34 shaped like a boat 1 succorrhoea
2 topsail
3 cismarine
4 obtruncate
5 cymbiform
35 doctrine that Christ secretly exercised divine powers 1 spiritualism
2 endlong
3 krypsis
4 epanalepsis
5 simnel
36 of or relating to soils 1 pabouche
2 eternalism
3 pedological
4 zoograft
5 acerate
37 description of natural wonders 1 adenotomy
2 protoplast
3 veduta
4 phyllomancy
5 thaumatography
38 pertaining to the sinuses 1 derrick
2 quorate
3 conciliabule
4 periscian
5 sinal
39 divination by stones or meteorites 1 guidon
2 acropodium
3 wanchancy
4 pauciloquent
5 lithomancy
40 nonexistent principle of flammability inherent in matter 1 decalescence
2 ombrology
3 passible
4 phlogiston
5 futurology
Number Question Answer Your answer
41 bearing a placenta 1 placentigerous
2 phylliform
3 abdominous
4 doloriferous
5 balefire
42 spindle in a watch on which the chain is wound 1 chelonian
2 undight
3 otalgia
4 calciferous
5 fusee
43 putting one's foot in one's mouth 1 coryphaeus
2 superscribe
3 glebe
4 uranomancy
5 dontopedalogy
44 slow-paced 1 ophidiomancy
2 jesuitical
3 sesquiplicate
4 curiosa
5 tardigrade
45 conical wooden pin used to splice strands of rope 1 fid
2 procidence
3 torvous
4 cameralism
5 pav‚
46 mistaken or false hearing 1 ametropia
2 ait
3 limicoline
4 pseudacusis
5 diamant‚
47 a sob 1 vocabularian
2 culmen
3 impest
4 anaclastic
5 singult
48 scuffle or brawl 1 bagarre
2 taurine
3 ulotrichous
4 flummery
5 radiciform
49 government by paramours 1 tempera
2 contriturate
3 trierarchy
4 hetaerocracy
5 ostiary
50 refractive; of or pertaining to refraction 1 anaclastic
2 epitimesis
3 synoecy
4 cosmolatry
5 monanthous
Number Question Answer Your answer
51 line connecting points of equal variations of pressure 1 brehon
2 rhombos
3 adoptionism
4 isometric
5 glycogenesis
52 light beige 1 helicon
2 suede
3 syneidesis
4 oneiromancy
5 drepanoid
53 a small hook or hook-like process 1 jansky
2 lacuna
3 hebamic
4 cecity
5 hamulus
54 expelling worms 1 discountenance
2 cathedra
3 aggiornamento
4 vermifugal
5 vineatic
55 government by children 1 mouldwarp
2 procinct
3 paedarchy
4 creatic
5 radular
56 pushing backwards 1 nacelle
2 clochard
3 retropulsion
4 limicoline
5 jolley
57 of or pertaining to urine 1 pregustation
2 porraceous
3 uretic
4 gradgrind
5 murrhine
58 brush made from hair of polecat 1 cardophagus
2 fitch
3 cordage
4 mycophagous
5 subindicate
59 to free from illusion 1 disillude
2 woold
3 engouement
4 puce
5 osmesis
60 instrument for measuring velocity 1 sudarium
2 cuspidor
3 kef
4 velocimeter
5 vaccimulgence
Number Question Answer Your answer
61 sacred word or acronym of four letters 1 tetragrammaton
2 invaginate
3 cypress
4 yelm
5 dactylogram
62 reclining as on a couch 1 accubation
2 orology
3 antilogarithm
4 geognosy
5 sundog
63 heavy lustrous silk or rayon with waxy feel 1 extravasate
2 toroid
3 synteresis
4 polymicrian
5 panne
64 going down; military retreat 1 katabasis
2 multure
3 versute
4 geotaxis
5 maxwell
65 series, chain or sequence 1 catena
2 pantograph
3 divaricate
4 jejunator
5 mutic
66 adhesive; sticky 1 collectic
2 diabrotic
3 serment
4 zoochorous
5 rotograph
67 every one that 1 rebarbative
2 cyclophoria
3 vicereine
4 whichsoever
5 patroclinous
68 any group of nine objects 1 scopophobia
2 exergue
3 ennead
4 mactation
5 teratoid
69 bearing a bristle 1 guipure
2 unleal
3 hodometry
4 calicular
5 styliferous
70 swallowing 1 innominate
2 glutition
3 clinquant
4 hamular
5 exodromy
Number Question Answer Your answer
71 excessive desire for food or eating 1 mentatiferous
2 mizzle
3 synoecize
4 phagomania
5 accubitum
72 eating many types of food 1 julep
2 latticinio
3 polyphagous
4 nullifidian
5 pachyglossal
73 to renounce or repudiate 1 porringer
2 abnegate
3 trophotropism
4 eyas
5 rummer
74 hedge; fence; barrier 1 farctate
2 superinduce
3 sepiment
4 proemptosis
5 thanatopsis
75 having long feet 1 lorgnon
2 solipsism
3 advowson
4 dolichopodous
5 coniferous
76 bemused; bewildered; intoxicated 1 gleed
2 pizzle
3 pixilated
4 woodreeve
5 katabasis
77 premature graying of the hair 1 synergism
2 dipnoous
3 poliosis
4 hyperemesis
5 pectiniform
78 producing milk 1 transmigrationism
2 lactogenic
3 stercomancy
4 fascicle
5 mucilage
79 something appropriate or proper 1 sphygmomanometer
2 scutigerous
3 biens‚ance
4 catenate
5 numen
80 a view of different parts of the world 1 orthodromics
2 rhexis
3 cosmorama
4 suppedaneum
5 lientery
Number Question Answer Your answer
81 celestial circle that intersects another at the poles 1 subnascent
2 wormcast
3 wainscot
4 zoomorphism
5 colure
82 yellow or black sackcloth garment worn by heretics prior to execution 1 chartaceous
2 zarzuela
3 terrier
4 apophasis
5 sanbenito
83 one-man show; play having only one actor 1 monodrama
2 lodesman
3 neorama
4 seahog
5 ferrule
84 metaphor 1 tralatition
2 polemology
3 otic
4 coacervate
5 subjoin
85 change for the worse 1 retromorphosis
2 flumen
3 soup‡on
4 relict
5 recrudescence
86 relating to wrongful injury by object or animal of another 1 catoptromancy
2 munting
3 noxal
4 staddle
5 pulverulent
87 interference due to different wave frequencies 1 antevenient
2 spinnaker
3 dentiform
4 heterodyne
5 equipoise
88 decayed with loss of branches 1 neomorphic
2 triptote
3 pogonology
4 doddered
5 parasigmatism
89 looseness in the teeth 1 cernuous
2 kinetics
3 landocracy
4 abterminal
5 agomphosis
90 plant-like animal such as coral 1 plantar
2 ivresse
3 zoophyte
4 jesuitical
5 reduit
Number Question Answer Your answer
91 flowing in 1 immanation
2 xenomancy
3 ginnery
4 clem
5 vitalism
92 inept; trivial 1 condign
2 stomatolalia
3 planish
4 footling
5 throstle
93 star-shaped; starry 1 revie
2 oleic
3 cibophobia
4 stellate
5 synergism
94 the decline of a disease in a population 1 alexia
2 catabasis
3 vermiculous
4 timbromania
5 appurtenance
95 compiler of opinions of philosophers 1 liber
2 bulimy
3 cantative
4 ideopraxist
5 doxographer
96 unit of force to accelerate 1 gram to 1 cm per second per second 1 dyne
2 provine
3 toponym
4 lutulent
5 hospitium
97 old man; churl; goblin or spectre 1 disomus
2 kilobase
3 adjutage
4 faience
5 bodach
98 one who believes in nervous origin of most diseases 1 cachinnate
2 pyrography
3 ferula
4 pugil
5 neuropath
99 high musical tone 1 mandriarch
2 ostrichism
3 noctidiurnal
4 alt
5 hydrotimeter
100 one who brings meat to the table 1 chyle
2 hemialgia
3 colporteur
4 euonymous
5 dapifer
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