Quiz 5 of 50 -- Obscure and Unusual Words

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 of or relating to a wife 1 uxorial
2 verruca
3 dynamogenesis
4 chancery
5 quoit
2 to chant or say repeatedly 1 decantate
2 frowst
3 periclitate
4 matachin
5 blain
3 cup; chalice 1 debarrass
2 hylotheism
3 monotroch
4 sevum
5 calix
4 strong craving or powerful desire 1 solive
2 pharmacometer
3 vavasour
4 appetence
5 scutch
5 hooked clasp used by masons to hold blocks together 1 arbrolatry
2 galactometer
3 agraffe
4 representationalism
5 nobilitate
6 guerrilla resistance force 1 notitia
2 cheverel
3 axinomancy
4 leiotrichous
5 maquis
7 study of stomach; intestines 1 byssaceous
2 gloaming
3 multitarian
4 gastroenterology
5 curate
8 dirty tatted tuft of sheep's wool 1 kit
2 mandative
3 mulligrubs
4 isotropic
5 dag
9 system of knowledge without basis in science 1 myringoscope
2 paracentral
3 guarish
4 sciosophy
5 hypodynamia
10 mountain nymph 1 reductionism
2 agraphia
3 oread
4 matins
5 lepidopterous
Number Question Answer Your answer
11 the study of meteors 1 meteoritics
2 argol
3 cocciferous
4 apiology
5 timenoguy
12 pertaining to or derived from animals 1 wergild
2 aorist
3 summate
4 spoliate
5 zoonic
13 producing an immune response 1 immunogenic
2 fissility
3 hydrogeology
4 serology
5 granivorous
14 sun-like 1 tocophobia
2 sphragistic
3 soliform
4 buttery
5 helminth
15 Roman curved trumpet 1 buccina
2 slickenside
3 strabismus
4 octamerous
5 pyrophanous
16 like or resembling measles 1 morbilliform
2 sigmate
3 jeremiad
4 anastrophe
5 ramie
17 interweaving of branches 1 omnifarious
2 transire
3 arguria
4 interramification
5 asperity
18 doing more than needed to complete a task 1 spicigerous
2 drill
3 cantabank
4 supererogation
5 microtome
19 ability to perceive the weight and form of an object 1 anomphalous
2 bioecology
3 arpenteur
4 dromic
5 stereognosis
20 pathological self-deprecation or belief that one is very small 1 mussitation
2 saccadic
3 definiens
4 caboose
5 micromania
Number Question Answer Your answer
21 truthful 1 refractometer
2 veridicous
3 nephelognosy
4 catafalque
5 limpid
22 use of light taps in massage 1 manurance
2 trochlear
3 tapotement
4 calycine
5 concomitant
23 small clique or faction 1 groupuscule
2 caisson
3 clysmian
4 roc
5 poiesis
24 to lay paint or colours thickly on 1 hylicism
2 gig
3 pierage
4 favonian
5 impaste
25 truncated gable with a lipped roof 1 olfactology
2 zugzwang
3 potter
4 jerkinhead
5 sudatory
26 an outdated policy, doctrine or theory 1 xenophilia
2 celeste
3 wasm
4 zoism
5 histology
27 spiral staircase; a half turn by a trained horse 1 caracole
2 caseous
3 sempiternum
4 kylin
5 purfle
28 to ensnare 1 hyperphagia
2 illaqueate
3 malleiform
4 vitiferous
5 reniform
29 soon; gladly 1 singultous
2 strombuliferous
3 portreeve
4 lief
5 jaseran
30 anchor carried at bow of a ship 1 thersitical
2 noumenalism
3 villus
4 bower
5 blarney
Number Question Answer Your answer
31 old unit of dry volume equal to between 32 and 72 bushels 1 jnana
2 knickerbockers
3 chaldron
4 demegoric
5 transubstantiation
32 a writer's real name; work published under writer's own name 1 postscenium
2 somnial
3 autonym
4 kalon
5 glutinous
33 newspaper vendor 1 romage
2 camelot
3 wadmal
4 doit
5 extensometer
34 inflated; falsely sublime; bombastic 1 fructuous
2 yird
3 dextroduction
4 ophthalmophobia
5 tumid
35 discoloration of the skin 1 batrachian
2 omegoid
3 dyschroa
4 passant
5 wormil
36 wine-coloured 1 autarchy
2 soup‡on
3 agnosic
4 diacoustic
5 vinaceous
37 windy; flatulent; puffed up with conceit 1 menald
2 paramatta
3 ventose
4 quaestuary
5 synteresis
38 short holy song or sung prayer 1 canticle
2 whither
3 abject
4 gregal
5 psilothrum
39 watery discharge from eyes and nose 1 incanous
2 latitant
3 pneumograph
4 rheum
5 unisonous
40 faith healing 1 plutolatry
2 whelky
3 quillon
4 equative
5 theotherapy
Number Question Answer Your answer
41 European bison 1 uloid
2 scaberulous
3 wisent
4 hyperdulia
5 dispone
42 intimate; pertaining to the lap or bosom 1 antigropelos
2 bombosity
3 bluepeter
4 gremial
5 digitigrade
43 procurer; marriage broker 1 rimose
2 noosphere
3 culiciform
4 floruit
5 proxenete
44 legal transfer by actual or symbolic sale 1 enjoin
2 oxyphonia
3 mancipation
4 coaptation
5 dendriform
45 acolyte 1 accensor
2 pieta
3 pupigerous
4 tubulure
5 laitance
46 a pimple; an insignificant person 1 zoogeography
2 hebenon
3 natable
4 quat
5 imbroglio
47 prostitute; a flirt or tease 1 cocotte
2 bezique
3 homoousia
4 tinnitus
5 retinaculum
48 to feign an action; perpetrate a hoax on 1 drap-de-Berry
2 vertiginous
3 gammon
4 demijohn
5 malaguena
49 stout corded wool or cotton 1 querist
2 moreen
3 wigan
4 abulia
5 omphaloid
50 a basic unit of systems of classification 1 nim
2 frogmarch
3 onanism
4 brachiferous
5 taxeme
Number Question Answer Your answer
51 to prance; toss the head; to strut 1 brank
2 lam‚
3 parbreak
4 potshop
5 scoria
52 theological statement as opposed to divine one 1 theologoumenon
2 bowery
3 epigeous
4 chthonian
5 inhaust
53 liquifying agent 1 laciniate
2 typographia
3 bacillicide
4 deicide
5 liquifacient
54 instrument for measuring small or distant earthquakes 1 stative
2 pliothermic
3 deiparous
4 solarism
5 microseismometer
55 hole allowing water to drain from ship's deck 1 diaphanous
2 scupper
3 chilopod
4 expurgate
5 preseminal
56 fear of falling down stairs 1 cervine
2 climacophobia
3 abeam
4 morology
5 hod
57 extinct wild ox 1 synaloepha
2 thalposis
3 vervel
4 advenient
5 aurochs
58 otherwise 1 secus
2 lacertiform
3 thanatousia
4 hieroscopy
5 apanage
59 box used for carrying ice on back of pack animal 1 yakhdan
2 cyanogenesis
3 forel
4 eructate
5 acquest
60 peace; sanctuary 1 decorticate
2 virology
3 puckery
4 epulation
5 frith
Number Question Answer Your answer
61 action of solar radiation causing chemical change 1 specie
2 wether
3 actinism
4 postprandial
5 tablature
62 cotton with silk pile 1 nonpareil
2 velvetine
3 iconometer
4 vivers
5 palmarian
63 round skullcap worn by Catholic clergy to indicate rank 1 lanigerous
2 zucchetto
3 vitrics
4 syntexis
5 juvenal
64 milk drinker 1 oligodynamic
2 galactophagist
3 provine
4 durometer
5 rufescent
65 flowing sweetly 1 nulliparous
2 binotonous
3 zel
4 dulcifluous
5 hippiatrics
66 briny 1 prestriction
2 verglas
3 equiparate
4 muriatic
5 plimsoll
67 belief that the world can be explained as aspect of the mind 1 mentalism
2 isonomy
3 deleterious
4 mainmast
5 microanatomy
68 divination using water in a basin or pool 1 dippydro
2 lecanomancy
3 quale
4 orthotropism
5 thalassography
69 bearing, bringing or carrying towards 1 stratigraphy
2 nematology
3 dioptre
4 arguria
5 afferent
70 someone to which something is ceded 1 papilionaceous
2 prolative
3 cessionary
4 merogenesis
5 palzogony
Number Question Answer Your answer
71 earliest version of a text; original unmodified version 1 reboant
2 urtext
3 fumiduct
4 pedometer
5 inveigle
72 feudal tax of a lord on tenants; any tax or toll 1 tallage
2 debellate
3 escalier
4 chypre
5 hedonism
73 unit of x-radiation or gamma radiation 1 reductionism
2 plash
3 tragomaschalia
4 roentgen
5 zymurgy
74 act of breathing 1 d‚marche
2 sensationalism
3 misprise
4 evanescent
5 spiration
75 medieval Italian limping hop dance 1 fimetic
2 triphthong
3 zoppetto
4 zho
5 absit
76 narrow ecclesiastical vestment or scarf 1 stole
2 moria
3 tagmeme
4 theroid
5 intercostal
77 pertaining to the calf of the leg 1 troika
2 probouleutic
3 sural
4 melichrous
5 bilious
78 act or process of swelling; swollenness 1 edentate
2 enjambment
3 occamy
4 turgescence
5 kakidrosis
79 instrument for detecting presence of methane 1 gerdoying
2 zephyr
3 methanometer
4 fideism
5 bionergy
80 having winged seeds 1 pterospermous
2 succorrhoea
3 lauds
4 marah
5 melliferous
Number Question Answer Your answer
81 tall cylindrical hat worn by Orthodox priests 1 euphonym
2 melaniferous
3 exarch
4 waywiser
5 kamelaukion
82 withering without falling off 1 farandine
2 marcescent
3 sudoral
4 haematic
5 pupillarity
83 to set a fixed arbitrary price 1 quarterdeck
2 woggle
3 valorise
4 pulvinated
5 juramentum
84 groove; grooved shaping tool 1 attrist
2 swage
3 soliform
4 catechumen
5 trabeate
85 dunghill 1 trousseau
2 devisee
3 mixen
4 pillion
5 castory
86 study of protists 1 rocaille
2 olent
3 deism
4 protistology
5 oncology
87 kiss on the hand 1 hamartiology
2 foliaceous
3 algor
4 baisemain
5 emollient
88 fear of itching or of insects causing itching 1 acarophobia
2 commonition
3 ophiuran
4 adiathermancy
5 dialectology
89 exponent of rules such as the Ten Commandments 1 decalogist
2 cryometer
3 aculeate
4 scotophobia
5 adversative
90 indicating motion alongside or by 1 antitypy
2 prolative
3 filemot
4 probouleutic
5 welkin
Number Question Answer Your answer
91 weaning 1 pomiferous
2 delactation
3 macadamize
4 whatabouts
5 primigenial
92 old device for copying that used a plate of jelly 1 caudiform
2 subrident
3 auxology
4 lollop
5 jellygraph
93 well-stored 1 fulciform
2 complanate
3 inficete
4 locuplete
5 cynolatry
94 bridge builder 1 pontist
2 freeboard
3 agonistes
4 barbigerous
5 euchology
95 view that moral conduct consists in observance of laws 1 vitular
2 anglomania
3 verberate
4 nomism
5 basial
96 a cow barn 1 byre
2 spargosis
3 sejugate
4 rhinal
5 petrissage
97 church associated with a monastery 1 interstitial
2 pratincolous
3 minster
4 quaestionary
5 pedantocracy
98 of or relating to horses 1 rochet
2 whipstall
3 palaeophile
4 pyoid
5 hippic
99 drug-seller; pharmacist; apothecary 1 diplograph
2 antalgic
3 languet
4 pharmacopolist
5 imprest
100 atrophy of the gums 1 kazatzka
2 ulatrophy
3 mechanism
4 marmarosis
5 galanty
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