Quiz 3 of 50 -- Obscure and Unusual Words

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 the act of addressing someone 1 vermian
2 visive
3 compellation
4 morphean
5 lyophilization
2 coarse fabric made of black and white wool 1 marigraph
2 gangway
3 mamelon
4 myriorama
5 kelt
3 spiked elephant goad 1 jalouse
2 plantocracy
3 bricole
4 ankus
5 turnspit
4 to divide into small portions 1 morcellate
2 thanatography
3 histology
4 stratous
5 warray
5 divination using water vessels 1 turnery
2 synarchy
3 eromancy
4 flysch
5 ephidrosis
6 imitating the coloration of a dangerous animal 1 odalisque
2 regnal
3 pseudaposematic
4 lactoscope
5 abecedarian
7 woody; ligneous 1 heliofugal
2 porraceous
3 xyloid
4 gymnasiast
5 petcock
8 to twist; to sprain; to strain 1 wrick
2 gonalgia
3 bombazine
4 boscage
5 uretic
9 writing or printing on plates spread with wax 1 anopisthographic
2 penannular
3 vendange
4 cerography
5 dendrometer
10 dark-coloured horse; blackish colour 1 conciliabule
2 morel
3 maxixe
4 sirenize
5 hommock
Number Question Answer Your answer
11 study of gem engravings 1 glyptology
2 sericieous
3 chevisance
4 dilatory
5 odontist
12 to change into bone; to become callous or conventional 1 kraurosis
2 eremic
3 insipience
4 mycosis
5 ossify
13 shaped like a coin 1 nummiform
2 plantar
3 cingular
4 skeg
5 propine
14 fine thin white cotton or linen fabric 1 cambric
2 donative
3 insectivorous
4 waldflute
5 quilling
15 direction of growth by nutritional factors 1 covinous
2 trophotropism
3 misaunter
4 magnificat
5 theopantism
16 extremely bright 1 machicolation
2 volutation
3 gressorial
4 prefulgent
5 endosmometer
17 production or formation of bone 1 coenaesthesis
2 radiometer
3 metallurgy
4 delignate
5 osteogenesis
18 becoming liquid 1 liquescent
2 trema
3 ilke
4 pandect
5 beestings
19 opposition to birth control 1 percutient
2 simity
3 mirador
4 agenocratia
5 willowish
20 art of raising silkworms 1 jougs
2 balistraria
3 magnanerie
4 micropolis
5 passivate
Number Question Answer Your answer
21 one who lays down paving stones 1 pavior
2 chyme
3 owling
4 reguerdon
5 filoselle
22 of royal birth 1 stellify
2 porphyrogenitic
3 boyg
4 messaline
5 cremnophobia
23 nevertheless; notwithstanding 1 vitrail
2 liturgist
3 donn‚
4 minim
5 natheless
24 badge of monastic order worn on the shoulders 1 genitive
2 hymeneal
3 tomography
4 aliquot
5 scapular
25 to retrograde 1 regrede
2 silage
3 impletion
4 ullage
5 aniconic
26 Carthusian monastic building 1 erotomania
2 charterhouse
3 barcarole
4 diectasis
5 pheon
27 cattle raid; foray 1 spreagh
2 ketch
3 bar
4 polemology
5 retrograde
28 horse's gait between an amble and a gallop 1 jugate
2 plutology
3 zanella
4 aubin
5 sigillative
29 otters, badgers and weasels 1 rhapsodomancy
2 laccolith
3 anodyne
4 souteneur
5 mustelid
30 instrument for viewing a spectrum 1 heptamerous
2 theanthropic
3 spectrograph
4 commis
5 ranivorous
Number Question Answer Your answer
31 to read mechanically by sight alone 1 astragal
2 retinise
3 metonymy
4 bannock
5 necropsy
32 emission of ill-smelling sweat 1 osmidrosis
2 lethonomia
3 necessarianism
4 suint
5 cometology
33 foremost end of ship's keel 1 notabilia
2 groundling
3 lackaday
4 esemplasy
5 forefoot
34 system for improving memory 1 mnemotechny
2 euonymous
3 catamount
4 puccoon
5 alcovinometer
35 female sexual partner 1 osmidrosis
2 bipennate
3 paracoita
4 coul‚e
5 twizzle
36 without 1 sine
2 graphemics
3 urticant
4 psychograph
5 modalism
37 old wind instrument resembling the cornet 1 zinke
2 supernumerary
3 oryctology
4 duenna
5 zwitterion
38 tending to produce sleep 1 yttriferous
2 surnominal
3 soporific
4 peculation
5 tatou
39 to deprive or divest of power 1 limnophilous
2 diaphanometer
3 calefactory
4 alveromancy
5 depotentiate
40 supplicating; expressing entreaty 1 tog
2 oenophilist
3 precative
4 hagioscope
5 consenescence
Number Question Answer Your answer
41 inquirer 1 oligochrome
2 querist
3 spatilomancy
4 subrident
5 parget
42 superficial enthusiasm for Scottish culture 1 retromingent
2 scialytic
3 balmorality
4 cleromancy
5 imago
43 plant living on dead or decaying matter 1 xanthic
2 epinosic
3 cacolet
4 saprophyte
5 athetesis
44 toast to someone's health; to go caroling or carousing; spiced ale 1 wassail
2 epopee
3 subtrist
4 agyiophobia
5 isotherm
45 frame or stand for keeping things off the floor 1 singultous
2 medicaster
3 merino
4 glutinous
5 stillage
46 uncontrolled licentiousness 1 adumbrate
2 satyrism
3 serein
4 chatoyant
5 ergometer
47 stitch made at head and tail of section of book to connect sections 1 kettlestitch
2 curtilage
3 tramontane
4 kaiserin
5 terpsichorean
48 embroidered silk with gold and silver threads 1 pinion
2 coram
3 anglomania
4 zoetrope
5 kincob
49 doubled; coupled 1 polariscope
2 insouciance
3 acroteleutic
4 binate
5 tophaceous
50 corner, edge or slice of anything 1 multifid
2 ord
3 phacometer
4 statics
5 cantle
Number Question Answer Your answer
51 point of a weapon; a beginning 1 limicoline
2 gynotikolobomassophile
3 troat
4 paraenesis
5 ord
52 villain 1 caracole
2 ribibe
3 collectic
4 scelerat
5 xylomancy
53 art or practice by which publicity or notoriety is secured 1 puccoon
2 trindle
3 r‚clame
4 obsecrate
5 spaniolate
54 red crystalline form of mercuric sulfide used as a pigment 1 sigillum
2 regardant
3 cinnabar
4 graphospasm
5 pelviform
55 election by a show of hands 1 rondure
2 bretasche
3 dactylomancy
4 pellate
5 chirotony
56 notoriety; unpleasantness 1 integument
2 esclandre
3 exedra
4 inopinate
5 woolage
57 noisy 1 pneumatology
2 strepent
3 homophobia
4 maenadic
5 epagomenal
58 hip pain 1 m‚tier
2 coxalgia
3 pyrene
4 academicism
5 heartsome
59 rhetorical device of omitting conjunctions 1 xylophagous
2 squinch
3 courante
4 verbatim
5 asyndeton
60 inmost parts of a building or temple; innermost secrets 1 ansate
2 ravelin
3 antitypy
4 gerent
5 penetralia
Number Question Answer Your answer
61 to unsew the eyes of 1 bursiculate
2 absit
3 unseel
4 anacusic
5 judder
62 prayer service held at dawn following matins 1 lauds
2 gu‚ridon
3 jark
4 rachiometer
5 trema
63 collecting of matchbox labels 1 reliquiae
2 bosselated
3 cryptaesthetic
4 phillumeny
5 retral
64 growing languid 1 deiparous
2 sialic
3 languescent
4 cavatina
5 heterology
65 to upset; to disorder 1 vivency
2 meteoritics
3 sicarian
4 illimitable
5 overset
66 device for tapping sap from maple trees 1 prognathic
2 densimeter
3 hebamic
4 spile
5 lurdan
67 wealth; reward; punishment 1 hod
2 sonorescent
3 phylogenesis
4 depotentiate
5 warison
68 pollen-bearing 1 scree
2 induciae
3 ramie
4 pollinigerous
5 xenial
69 gondolier's song 1 mappemond
2 vetanda
3 barcarole
4 sinistrad
5 synechthry
70 listening to sounds arising within organs 1 epidemiology
2 lares
3 auscultation
4 ideogeny
5 empennage
Number Question Answer Your answer
71 taking an accent in some but not all positions 1 vibrograph
2 villus
3 orthotonic
4 pluriserial
5 zarzuela
72 bearing rotifers 1 rowlock
2 rotiferous
3 tonneau
4 lares
5 kincob
73 paying undue attention to minutiae 1 tonsorial
2 etamine
3 genophobia
4 minutious
5 postcibal
74 dining-hall of a monastery or other institution 1 zenography
2 bouleversement
3 mythogenesis
4 refectory
5 piend
75 to what place 1 cheviot
2 reckling
3 whither
4 rotameter
5 hauberk
76 bearing a cross 1 ceramography
2 plasmophagous
3 isometric
4 cruciferous
5 liturate
77 study of serums 1 mulligrubs
2 soporose
3 thalassocracy
4 antilegomena
5 serology
78 liqueur made from the wild cherry 1 paroemia
2 kirsch
3 physiurgic
4 dilatory
5 tautomerism
79 cohabitation of hostile species 1 synechthry
2 maniform
3 intuitionism
4 cteniform
5 glossographer
80 that may be refracted 1 utriculiform
2 crupper
3 coryphaeus
4 refrangible
5 proprioception
Number Question Answer Your answer
81 tablet decorated with sacred figure and kissed by participants in mass 1 whirret
2 accidence
3 uxorious
4 mastoid
5 pax
82 the art of paper-cutting to make pictures 1 invictive
2 wieldless
3 psalligraphy
4 mileometer
5 parastatic
83 scaliness 1 prodrome
2 psuedodox
3 squamation
4 precisian
5 fusillation
84 administering communion by dipping bread into wine 1 intinction
2 solacious
3 theophile
4 zebrule
5 passepied
85 having cutting teeth 1 lour
2 secodont
3 olitory
4 anomic
5 yaff
86 small seed or spore 1 tragomaschalia
2 plexure
3 seminule
4 syringadenous
5 trigraph
87 the nearest side 1 hitherside
2 ucalegon
3 athetesis
4 dreadnought
5 thrioboly
88 bison 1 coprostatis
2 spoliate
3 bonasus
4 motatory
5 greave
89 shoemaker 1 megascope
2 cordwainer
3 abatjour
4 cornice
5 photobiology
90 mental effort towards a goal, desire, purpose 1 marquetry
2 tessera
3 hednon
4 poop
5 conation
Number Question Answer Your answer
91 single; unmarried 1 aneabil
2 oogenesis
3 regal
4 hypnoetic
5 timbromania
92 watery 1 cyaneous
2 guichet
3 pantagamy
4 hydatoid
5 circumvallate
93 feeding on body's own tissues 1 rounceval
2 aspidate
3 conification
4 bigential
5 autophagy
94 having or suggestive of the colours of a rainbow 1 absterge
2 iridian
3 battledore
4 parasiticide
5 onychomancy
95 exuding drops 1 calvous
2 guttiferous
3 sulcal
4 kaiserin
5 tabernacle
96 eating of dry food 1 museology
2 xerophagy
3 scioptic
4 lickerish
5 raptorial
97 discordant; abhorrent 1 headland
2 iatrophobia
3 paracme
4 ambages
5 absonant
98 moving or directed backwards; degenerating; inverse 1 climacteric
2 retrograde
3 mislight
4 architrave
5 putlock
99 colour-blindness with respect to red 1 protanopia
2 hypaethral
3 gastronomy
4 contrahent
5 ephelis
100 nomadic 1 aichmophobia
2 matrical
3 pagophagia
4 dedition
5 pelasgic
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