Quiz 47 of 50 -- Obscure and Unusual Words

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 to beat out impurities from flax or wool 1 ozostomia
2 bombazine
3 scutch
4 vadose
5 serpette
2 small passenger vehicle 1 proairesis
2 sable
3 jitney
4 sublative
5 mycetism
3 hospital for lepers 1 jesuitical
2 zel
3 ectypography
4 pharyngoscope
5 leprosarium
4 widowhood 1 drugget
2 vicinal
3 platitudinarian
4 viduity
5 polemology
5 miner's basket, trolley or wagon 1 corf
2 damnification
3 lexigraphy
4 organoleptic
5 suidian
6 fear of falling from a high place 1 anlace
2 zelatriks
3 canoness
4 witling
5 bathophobia
7 small vessel with oars and sails 1 gigot
2 steatogenous
3 plethysmograph
4 trellis
5 pinnace
8 instrument for measuring stress in a structure 1 monoxylon
2 torpillage
3 taseometer
4 hereticate
5 argol
9 of or pertaining to the will 1 pannikin
2 volitive
3 insufflate
4 exterritority
5 taphrogenesis
10 decayed; fetid 1 iamatology
2 putid
3 vallecula
4 peltry
5 perlocution
Number Question Answer Your answer
11 joint; joining surface 1 eonism
2 psychotheism
3 commissure
4 sternway
5 regorge
12 government by the best 1 bastinade
2 aristarchy
3 ablactation
4 adnomination
5 collectic
13 word of few syllables 1 dulcifluous
2 oligosyllable
3 torrefy
4 symbolaeography
5 taurean
14 wicker or wire basket of earth or rock 1 zygosis
2 decrement
3 syllabub
4 gabion
5 retromingent
15 combining different modes of nutrition 1 ingression
2 quipu
3 mixotrophic
4 chelonian
5 colubrine
16 light four-wheeled carriage with two seats 1 passement
2 eumoiriety
3 scansorial
4 surrey
5 r‚clame
17 mace-bearing official of an institution 1 chevelure
2 beadle
3 perfectionism
4 balneology
5 contranatant
18 study of forms and the development of structures 1 quince
2 russel
3 fabulist
4 morphology
5 variorum
19 of or pertaining to the civet 1 cinerarium
2 hippic
3 viverrine
4 conferva
5 pseudoautochiria
20 strengthening drug or tonic 1 supra
2 quadrennial
3 roborant
4 vesturer
5 lachrymogenic
Number Question Answer Your answer
21 supplement to a will 1 damask
2 codicil
3 multivious
4 capistrate
5 ziggurat
22 variegated; of various colours 1 plastron
2 dionym
3 pensum
4 pied
5 epigeal
23 windproof jacket 1 brindled
2 jink
3 octastich
4 windcheater
5 misprision
24 patchwork composition; collection of short quotations 1 cento
2 biotaxy
3 abampere
4 scriniary
5 stilp
25 bearing chyme 1 decurrent
2 isocracy
3 oblate
4 resile
5 chymiferous
26 to surround with a rampart or fortification 1 faience
2 circumvallate
3 sociobiology
4 cecity
5 meuse
27 intervening; situated between two things 1 reboant
2 nainsook
3 interjacent
4 cholic
5 sellate
28 writing or contract signed by both or all parties 1 syngraph
2 spiloma
3 vitrescent
4 d‚marche
5 whichsoever
29 vile misrepresentation 1 alation
2 calumny
3 hylogenesis
4 vesicate
5 selcouth
30 worship of archaic things or old customs 1 archaeolatry
2 diseuse
3 spinnaker
4 spokeshave
5 octarius
Number Question Answer Your answer
31 system of symbols; alphabet 1 eyot
2 signary
3 pseudoautochiria
4 pannier
5 akeratophorous
32 revealing of part of a painting beneath a newer one 1 pentimento
2 vallum
3 ferule
4 odeum
5 spectrofluorimeter
33 appropriately named 1 unigenous
2 strabismus
3 putlock
4 tunicate
5 euonymous
34 smelly armpits 1 pentad
2 desinent
3 telic
4 chad
5 tragomaschalia
35 feeding on or living in limestone 1 brunneous
2 piggin
3 agersia
4 ganister
5 calcivorous
36 a tendency toward blindness 1 totitive
2 mnemon
3 cecutiency
4 metaphony
5 exarate
37 causing sweat 1 peripetia
2 sudorific
3 punctilio
4 colostrum
5 rosmarine
38 to kill by exposure to cold 1 organonomy
2 paraesthesia
3 winterkill
4 xerophagy
5 diallelus
39 part of ship connecting the keel with the bottom of the rudderpost 1 mutative
2 haulm
3 caprifoliaceous
4 skeg
5 riem
40 steel link with clip on side used in mountaineering 1 dilettante
2 tauricide
3 legatine
4 karabiner
5 dragoman
Number Question Answer Your answer
41 fear of work 1 ergophobia
2 tuberous
3 hemistich
4 servilism
5 randem
42 Italian bagpipe 1 dynamogenesis
2 bifid
3 zampogna
4 timbal
5 solus
43 study of biological measurement 1 biometrics
2 pundigrion
3 tabaret
4 orleans
5 galactophagist
44 one who is naively optimistic 1 lamina
2 pollyanna
3 meristic
4 fulgour
5 anurous
45 after the great Flood 1 postdiluvian
2 trave
3 paean
4 xenophilia
5 fleam
46 happiness or well-being 1 eudaemony
2 pinnate
3 epicede
4 stylometer
5 probosciform
47 inclination towards violence; hawkishness 1 vulsella
2 tovarish
3 ergasiophobia
4 bellecism
5 vaticide
48 in rows 1 seriate
2 praxis
3 killas
4 ornithon
5 despoliation
49 past; near 1 philopornist
2 forby
3 sulphureous
4 urbanology
5 seraphic
50 spotted; patchy 1 evanition
2 hypertrichologist
3 macular
4 oose
5 nutrice
Number Question Answer Your answer
51 in multiple separate locations 1 batraquomancy
2 ablegate
3 polynesic
4 hippomancy
5 iatrochemistry
52 belief that one is a god 1 necrophobia
2 theomania
3 kinetoscope
4 hypercatalectic
5 cerements
53 record or register 1 pendicle
2 fasti
3 nuciferous
4 vesta
5 terete
54 to carry property away wrongfully 1 pseudolatry
2 kirtle
3 gyrostatics
4 orthognathism
5 asportation
55 fringed; having a narrow border 1 fimbriate
2 purlicue
3 wapentake
4 peripatetic
5 isochroous
56 to disembowel 1 exenterate
2 dilogy
3 disculpate
4 revirescent
5 electroretinograph
57 crooked stick used by butchers for hanging carcasses 1 pule
2 appropinquity
3 gambrel
4 conglobe
5 adamantine
58 having one brood a year 1 peatary
2 wainscot
3 voile
4 univoltine
5 synanthy
59 study of women's physiology 1 loricate
2 disomus
3 pityroid
4 similitive
5 gynaecology
60 with grooves or furrows 1 sulcate
2 eccoprotic
3 bower
4 quilling
5 osteology
Number Question Answer Your answer
61 the unknowableness of all things to a certainty 1 esemplasy
2 pyromachy
3 acatalepsy
4 upher
5 estrapade
62 one who loves his own opinions; dogmatic person 1 mackinaw
2 philodox
3 inguinal
4 crinoline
5 meromorphic
63 shaped like ivy 1 hederiform
2 proairesis
3 nidifugous
4 henotic
5 chaplet
64 the state of being bread 1 symbolaeography
2 paneity
3 spectrometer
4 ovibovine
5 lief
65 to root or grub with the snout 1 palaeolimnology
2 emarcid
3 vermifugal
4 grout
5 monogony
66 in two rows or columns 1 stereotomy
2 legerity
3 biserial
4 plantigrade
5 dulcian
67 one who opposes marriage 1 toxiphobia
2 cteniform
3 kemb
4 agamist
5 mattoid
68 relating to cranes or similar birds 1 glozing
2 ignify
3 sericterium
4 gruine
5 vegete
69 preliminary sketch 1 embrangle
2 perorate
3 abbozzo
4 giganticide
5 planchette
70 botanist's collecting case 1 titaniferous
2 mehari
3 diestrus
4 bibitory
5 vasculum
Number Question Answer Your answer
71 bearing a whip or flagellum 1 woodwose
2 flagelliferous
3 cryoscope
4 pelisse
5 heterogenesis
72 twin; twinned; growing in pairs 1 didymous
2 trigonometer
3 camlet
4 pyrophanous
5 cultus
73 unusually bright spot on sun's surface 1 lacertilian
2 compaginate
3 mullock
4 facula
5 diallage
74 to acknowledge or confess 1 agnize
2 viduous
3 stellify
4 xylorimba
5 pseudogyny
75 shedding or moulting of the skin 1 nutrice
2 diastema
3 ecydisis
4 sippet
5 taxeme
76 gold and green bird with long tail feathers 1 alethiology
2 estoppage
3 avulse
4 lancinate
5 quetzal
77 pertaining to fishing 1 imbrute
2 fungiform
3 alethiology
4 menisciform
5 halieutic
78 wasting away of the body; emaciation due to malnutrition 1 marasmus
2 effleurage
3 stythe
4 wigan
5 stibial
79 eating bees 1 bruit
2 indoles
3 diagenesis
4 apivorous
5 potentiate
80 government by seven people 1 clinophobia
2 selenolatry
3 aduncate
4 heptarchy
5 dilatory
Number Question Answer Your answer
81 white woollen band symbolising archbishop's authority 1 cyllosis
2 tempera
3 scutage
4 bowery
5 pallium
82 building having columns only in the front 1 spiflicate
2 prostyle
3 poroscope
4 subarrhation
5 tranchet
83 loving or admiring horses 1 secque
2 philhippic
3 eucrasy
4 microanatomy
5 martyrolatry
84 ruler of the world 1 obtend
2 cosmocrat
3 molluscicide
4 concelebrate
5 acariasis
85 divination by sacrificing a rooster 1 chancery
2 ombrometer
3 creancer
4 mullock
5 alectormancy
86 organisms living in soil 1 wincey
2 whippet
3 formic
4 idolum
5 edapha
87 craze for stamp collecting 1 slug
2 xylopyrography
3 timbromania
4 cacoethes
5 aggrade
88 of or relating to musk-oxen 1 taphrogenesis
2 ageotropic
3 ovibovine
4 toison
5 cosmism
89 speaking with clenched teeth 1 dentiloquy
2 circumfuse
3 calicular
4 podagra
5 anonym
90 pertaining to drupes or stone-fruits 1 cubiform
2 drupaceous
3 brougham
4 ballistocardiograph
5 monopsychism
Number Question Answer Your answer
91 unit of pressure of one million dynes per square centimeter 1 bar
2 woodshedding
3 psephology
4 smectic
5 brattice
92 according to 1 omphaloskepsis
2 secundum
3 planetology
4 vulturine
5 parapraxis
93 leisurely stroll; march of bullfighters into arena 1 laicism
2 paseo
3 whiskerando
4 responsory
5 zymite
94 knottiness; a knotty swelling 1 escharotic
2 procathedral
3 nodosity
4 setiform
5 xenial
95 passing or expiring due to lapse or forfeit 1 caducary
2 atactic
3 mediagenic
4 intellection
5 avinosis
96 ivy-bearing 1 psoas
2 batophobia
3 mithridatism
4 nervine
5 hederiferous
97 having a mustache-like stripe 1 remigate
2 mystacial
3 laeotropic
4 nudation
5 cringle
98 drunkenness 1 alveary
2 anthropobiology
3 methysis
4 dogcart
5 manicate
99 close examiner 1 ruridecanal
2 outrigger
3 scrutator
4 psychofugal
5 besom
100 bright orange-red 1 pyrgeometer
2 kinetoscope
3 silenus
4 pabulum
5 nacarat
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