Quiz 4 of 50 -- Obscure and Unusual Words

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 study of natural or biological character 1 excorticate
2 obrogate
3 eupeptic
4 ethology
5 spagyrist
2 pertaining to a swineherd 1 sublineation
2 quitclaim
3 armipotent
4 pupate
5 sybotic
3 waste; dross; secretion that is reabsorbed; excess matter 1 hypostyle
2 recrement
3 rupestrian
4 vermivorous
5 anthroposophy
4 guide for fixing a pottery mould for plates 1 luctation
2 gastrolatry
3 cecils
4 jolley
5 crepitate
5 to gape; to burst open 1 obitual
2 dehisce
3 prepense
4 delate
5 cicerone
6 architectural monstrosity or eyesore; red precious stone 1 witchknot
2 pointillism
3 malapert
4 clathrate
5 carbuncle
7 man devoted to life of pleasure; rake 1 iridian
2 pneumatophony
3 regnal
4 hornpipe
5 rou‚
8 of or pertaining to twilight 1 crepuscular
2 clavichord
3 colonoscope
4 xenium
5 posology
9 parapet or battlement 1 bartisan
2 acrolith
3 staysail
4 chrysoaristocracy
5 killcow
10 apposition; compounding of words without change 1 eutexia
2 parathesis
3 narcolepsy
4 elide
5 hippomania
Number Question Answer Your answer
11 belief souls sleep from death to resurrection 1 psychopannychism
2 poral
3 thermometrograph
4 pervious
5 crystallogenesis
12 study of diseases 1 nosology
2 sporran
3 agraphia
4 cedrate
5 prelacy
13 of or relating to flax 1 hednon
2 vociferate
3 linaceous
4 gurlet
5 galloon
14 instrument for measuring intensity of magnetic fields 1 alcoholometer
2 magnetometer
3 tiffany
4 trigonometer
5 narcolepsy
15 piece of undressed leather used in making glue 1 cartophily
2 micrander
3 polypharmacy
4 spetch
5 entablature
16 twisted inwards; involved 1 satanophany
2 carronade
3 intorted
4 croceate
5 attorn
17 excelling all round in athletics or accomplishments 1 supercilious
2 vigia
3 isogeotherm
4 veilleuse
5 pancratic
18 instrument for measuring air moisture or temperature 1 grum
2 virucide
3 psychrometer
4 tetrakishexahedron
5 emacity
19 geometrical expression of possibility of multiple solutions 1 porism
2 symphoric
3 libellant
4 ephidrosis
5 xyloid
20 to insert into a text too hurriedly or inappropriately 1 prepense
2 comburivorous
3 curtilage
4 spatchcock
5 camisade
Number Question Answer Your answer
21 sewer; toilet; cesspool of moral filth 1 cloaca
2 tumultuary
3 surah
4 bema
5 Sapphism
22 one who devours books; literally or figuratively 1 pegamoid
2 pone
3 propitiate
4 bibliophagist
5 mastology
23 distance between waterline and main deck of a ship 1 malleation
2 barmcloth
3 freeboard
4 sequestrate
5 ramellose
24 person possessing knowledge of many subjects 1 chrysoaristocracy
2 petrophilous
3 ordinate
4 polymath
5 scripophily
25 a casually employed dock worker 1 ideopraxist
2 frangible
3 odontalgia
4 esker
5 shenango
26 midwifery 1 claver
2 maieutics
3 scripophily
4 humify
5 conspue
27 to give peace to 1 sarangousty
2 semiterete
3 guignol
4 pacificate
5 hagiarchy
28 shaped like a fish 1 tympanum
2 portatile
3 pisciform
4 vasculum
5 allogeneous
29 leadership of one state within a confederacy 1 anker
2 agennesic
3 bibliopegist
4 hegemony
5 hyetal
30 barrow-mound; mound of earth over a grave 1 poussin
2 tremallose
3 tumulus
4 decrepitate
5 coriaceous
Number Question Answer Your answer
31 wooden shoe; clog; base of a pillar 1 milleflori
2 sertule
3 philoprogenitive
4 equanimity
5 patten
32 love of hotels 1 rotiferous
2 carucate
3 xenodocheionology
4 vorago
5 eikonology
33 smoked herring 1 saprostomous
2 infra
3 thurl
4 morphology
5 bocking
34 nickname 1 polemology
2 wimple
3 audiology
4 sobriquet
5 misoneism
35 a little hill 1 megascope
2 inscient
3 graphospasm
4 allography
5 monticle
36 study of enzymes 1 wynd
2 arboriform
3 dendritiform
4 enzymology
5 sporogenesis
37 something that grasps or seizes 1 tisane
2 telestic
3 prehensor
4 polystyle
5 phanic
38 to settle beforehand 1 preconcert
2 turdiform
3 chancel
4 supinate
5 obi
39 of or relating to pebbles 1 proboscidate
2 poltroon
3 jongleur
4 stipe
5 psephitic
40 rectangular base of column or pedestal 1 spissitude
2 dedition
3 trachelate
4 virgal
5 plinth
Number Question Answer Your answer
41 showing, exhibiting or demonstrating 1 endeictic
2 seric
3 sidereal
4 heteroclitous
5 egestion
42 of or pertaining to the skin 1 deric
2 isopach
3 salinometer
4 byssaceous
5 jesserant
43 coarse linen and wool blend 1 stabile
2 foumart
3 linsey
4 formic
5 decumbiture
44 poem; words of a song 1 vadose
2 chrysography
3 dit
4 femicide
5 philistine
45 silent piano for practicing 1 molariform
2 digitorium
3 incipient
4 misacceptation
5 wedeln
46 sweet perfumed wine 1 parastatic
2 caliology
3 malmsey
4 transept
5 annulet
47 self-luminous 1 hierography
2 embryoniform
3 tufa
4 autophanous
5 agnize
48 instrument for copying drawings at a different scale 1 planigraph
2 adenology
3 sapience
4 accensor
5 mechanism
49 small room just under the roof 1 catapedamania
2 thermology
3 wen
4 thanatography
5 cockloft
50 study of insects 1 misoclere
2 hierurgy
3 insectology
4 nosology
5 sudd
Number Question Answer Your answer
51 man-shaped sea monster 1 antidisestablishmentarianism
2 wasserman
3 immanentism
4 medicaster
5 euripus
52 collection of papal bulls 1 mizzle
2 bullary
3 vibrissa
4 keratogenic
5 pestiferous
53 meanwhile 1 vascular
2 jolley
3 prestigiator
4 groupuscule
5 interim
54 great-great grandfather 1 quadrennial
2 anadiplosis
3 ostiary
4 tresayle
5 omniparity
55 fear of riding in a car 1 forby
2 gyrus
3 hippiatrics
4 amaxophobia
5 polverine
56 study of atmospheric pollutants and dust 1 koniology
2 ambulatory
3 gigot
4 indehiscent
5 plash
57 round or oval in shape 1 disciform
2 pegamoid
3 barathrum
4 gaud
5 fastigium
58 play on words; pun 1 pundigrion
2 groundsel
3 ranarian
4 paravant
5 drapetomania
59 having teeth all alike 1 scholiast
2 simpliste
3 homodont
4 pernor
5 liturgician
60 beyond the known universe 1 extramundane
2 sciagraphy
3 coehorn
4 oxygeusia
5 graveolent
Number Question Answer Your answer
61 number leaving same remainder when divided into two others 1 factitious
2 zoopery
3 allative
4 drysalter
5 modulus
62 standard-bearer 1 gonfalonier
2 kinetheodolite
3 hithermost
4 humoral
5 lutescent
63 doctrine concerning faith 1 sinapise
2 electrocardiograph
3 manal
4 bursiform
5 pistiology
64 shaped like a molar 1 heliotaxis
2 molariform
3 archididascalos
4 volar
5 spatiotemporal
65 things to be deleted or destroyed 1 abodement
2 clinamen
3 thewe
4 delenda
5 jaspe
66 bearing nickel 1 nickeliferous
2 ebeneous
3 myasthenia
4 jumboism
5 mizmaze
67 meeting of a witches' coven 1 kedge
2 fontinal
3 esbat
4 semantology
5 woning
68 eating trays of ice to help offset iron deficiency 1 relucent
2 pagophagia
3 visiogenic
4 pestiferous
5 mayhap
69 outgrowth; projection; tumour 1 shag
2 excresence
3 seismology
4 buttery
5 dacnomania
70 study of death and its customs 1 torr
2 hordeaceous
3 oneirodynia
4 thanatology
5 suicidology
Number Question Answer Your answer
71 producing or generating heat 1 calorifacient
2 crepon
3 roseate
4 goldenrod
5 preaudience
72 shaped like a network 1 plexiform
2 gadroon
3 lectrice
4 voluble
5 radicated
73 thin glazed worsted 1 lairwite
2 tamin
3 chronopher
4 insufflate
5 cortinate
74 crust formed on wine kept too long or improperly 1 argol
2 lupanarian
3 jaunce
4 phatic
5 sciosophy
75 boiling over; agitation; outbreak 1 ebullition
2 ampere
3 theosophy
4 antistrophe
5 corrigendum
76 squared stone used in building walls 1 godet
2 procoelous
3 expatiate
4 bulimy
5 ashlar
77 star-watching 1 biocentric
2 myosis
3 uranoscopy
4 goldenrod
5 naze
78 bringing war 1 pharos
2 belliferous
3 writhled
4 tuism
5 cladoptosis
79 instrument for measuring very high temperatures 1 pyrometer
2 gutturotetany
3 hexactinal
4 duvetyn
5 dentagra
80 native to several countries 1 monophagous
2 prie-dieu
3 polydemic
4 pantagruelian
5 astraphobia
Number Question Answer Your answer
81 display of affectation 1 minauderie
2 narcose
3 viator
4 smalt
5 analects
82 living in or among rocks 1 tumulus
2 amphiscian
3 whatabouts
4 saxicolous
5 miosis
83 instrument for measuring intensity of sunlight 1 constellate
2 scantling
3 heliograph
4 acharn‚
5 catchpole
84 peace treaty or armistice 1 induciae
2 tautochronous
3 hercogamy
4 ambry
5 petrean
85 concealing of one heavenly body by another 1 emonomancy
2 occultation
3 springald
4 fulgid
5 scapigerous
86 relating to reflection or reflected light 1 catoptric
2 padronism
3 amyloid
4 florilegium
5 epinician
87 horizontal timber of a scaffolding 1 ligger
2 pellicle
3 reflet
4 linguiform
5 bardel
88 lottery in which each entrant must win a prize 1 parlous
2 tombola
3 maulstick
4 anomia
5 narcolepsy
89 vein of a leaf 1 nervure
2 ramulus
3 grosgrain
4 velocimeter
5 jitney
90 premature burial 1 timbrology
2 croceate
3 zoothapsis
4 ichnomancy
5 whin
Number Question Answer Your answer
91 officer in court who attends to execute orders; harbinger 1 plebeian
2 carcinology
3 chintz
4 apparitor
5 sordor
92 surface layer; surface with length and width only 1 superficies
2 naze
3 nainsook
4 breccia
5 hymnody
93 hair-like 1 ramentum
2 ondoyant
3 trichoid
4 revers
5 zoonomy
94 ornamental stand in shape of ship for holding salt or cutlery 1 macrology
2 vitrifacture
3 demersal
4 definiens
5 nef
95 of multiple origin or composition 1 pyrokinesis
2 soporiferous
3 paranym
4 doramania
5 polygenous
96 insolence; a scornful insult 1 skysail
2 contumely
3 flapdoodle
4 fulgour
5 intaglio
97 developed suddenly and not inherited 1 neomorphic
2 somatology
3 tritheism
4 ebrious
5 rutilant
98 of or relating to stones; inscribed on stones 1 sillograph
2 linchpin
3 limbus
4 creatic
5 lapidarian
99 bandage worn around the nose 1 cotillion
2 accipiter
3 exponible
4 mendiloquence
5 decantate
100 of or pertaining to song-birds 1 scatomancy
2 oscinine
3 eumoiriety
4 mordent
5 loreal
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