Quiz 9 of 50 -- Obscure and Unusual Words

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 to splinter or split; to chip 1 currycomb
2 spall
3 piacular
4 cyrenaic
5 madefy
2 deafness to specific pitches of sound 1 born‚
2 metameric
3 ceromancy
4 asonia
5 perliginous
3 neighboring; local 1 zymometer
2 keratogenic
3 vicinal
4 obvert
5 deicide
4 playful; impish; boyish 1 gemmation
2 factitive
3 anteambulo
4 gaminesque
5 plegometer
5 after-effect of any trauma; consequence or result 1 furciferous
2 donative
3 tewel
4 sequela
5 epicrisis
6 childlessness 1 lucifugous
2 ateknia
3 aiu‚
4 photic
5 expromission
7 formation of a film on copper from exposure 1 patination
2 excarnate
3 zorino
4 marah
5 anomia
8 to swallow; to guzzle 1 ingurgitate
2 ullage
3 architectonics
4 setiform
5 gynocracy
9 composition of music 1 remiform
2 compusion
3 sesquialter
4 melopoeia
5 kantar
10 artist's studio or workshop 1 lexiphanic
2 atelier
3 psephomancy
4 wight
5 depurate
Number Question Answer Your answer
11 secreting milk 1 conchiform
2 thrum
3 ingate
4 ignipotent
5 lactescent
12 divination by counting 1 nidatory
2 pyrokinesis
3 mathemancy
4 modillion
5 crural
13 condition of having more than the normal number 1 hydrography
2 provection
3 cabochon
4 pleiomery
5 rasure
14 shaped like an arrowhead 1 poculation
2 idolum
3 cacodemomania
4 dromestoners
5 sagittiform
15 choking smoke or dust; fuss; commotion 1 epitoga
2 ingression
3 cribration
4 stanniferous
5 pother
16 urban 1 muller
2 diable
3 hauberk
4 oppidan
5 evulse
17 a young sow 1 dirigism
2 irascent
3 yelt
4 champerty
5 thermoscope
18 level countryside or plain 1 quadra
2 vorticity
3 loxodromy
4 monocracy
5 champaign
19 killing of a human being in a secret manner 1 molariform
2 murdrum
3 violatic
4 jackstay
5 retorse
20 staircase 1 transvolation
2 clarigate
3 wiseacre
4 monoptote
5 escalier
Number Question Answer Your answer
21 to give or take in pledge or pawn 1 roscid
2 pointillism
3 pignorate
4 hortensial
5 autecology
22 to catch an approaching object or falling liquid 1 algetic
2 postlude
3 thereology
4 soporose
5 kep
23 slotted rotating cylinder producing primitive animation 1 staphyline
2 pointillism
3 zoetrope
4 veloutine
5 honorificabilitudinity
24 quack; charlatan 1 nutant
2 hommock
3 medicaster
4 oersted
5 cosmocrat
25 swelling with pride or with pregnancy 1 forefoot
2 aculeiform
3 flabelliform
4 tympany
5 phonation
26 worship of filth, dirt, or smut 1 aischrolatry
2 ophiuran
3 isotropic
4 sophomoric
5 cyanometer
27 nipple-shaped 1 papilliform
2 voluptuary
3 mucedinous
4 hypnoid
5 congeries
28 short timber binding together upright posts 1 intertie
2 hearsecloth
3 lugsail
4 quotha
5 krimmer
29 halting milk production 1 phygogalactic
2 amathophobia
3 scleroid
4 bilge
5 interlucation
30 thin single-twilled worsted fabric with cotton or silk 1 surd
2 hylophagous
3 triglyph
4 pansexualism
5 coburg
Number Question Answer Your answer
31 blueprint 1 illaudable
2 havier
3 acariasis
4 cyanotype
5 rondeau
32 great-circle sailing; sailing by most direct route 1 farandole
2 orthodromics
3 accubation
4 tonetics
5 magnanerie
33 Anglo-Saxon poet and harpist 1 boscage
2 milliad
3 bigential
4 scop
5 deliquesce
34 distinctive feature or characteristic 1 quich
2 lineament
3 octamerous
4 contabescent
5 epithesis
35 Neolithic flint chisel 1 dodger
2 tranchet
3 plectrum
4 absonant
5 spicigerous
36 to sink; to decline 1 labrose
2 devall
3 strahl
4 alt
5 phylogenesis
37 to erupt; to burst with heat 1 rhopalic
2 flagitate
3 bottine
4 oleraceous
5 vesuviate
38 indicating indirect object of a verb 1 suscept
2 scholarch
3 metopomancy
4 corposant
5 dative
39 divine impulse determining the will 1 dioptometer
2 premotion
3 escharotic
4 evince
5 vivarium
40 divergence from normal time sequence 1 triforium
2 unwithdrawing
3 squamate
4 heterochrony
5 bocking
Number Question Answer Your answer
41 fashionable; stylish 1 lapideous
2 expeditate
3 tubulate
4 modish
5 graphology
42 perforated or punctured like a sieve 1 dendrolatry
2 cribrous
3 teleseism
4 oppilate
5 emmenagogue
43 colourless 1 telespectroscope
2 lissotrichous
3 achroous
4 seismoscope
5 staysail
44 device used to allow deaf to hear sounds through the cranium 1 velvetine
2 persiennes
3 chesil
4 osteophone
5 amanuensis
45 eating humans 1 mussitate
2 flibbertigibbet
3 osteoclasis
4 taxis
5 homnivorous
46 instrument for demonstrating sound waves by lines of light 1 textuary
2 architectonics
3 dioecious
4 trivet
5 kaleidophone
47 a bully; a swaggerer 1 intitule
2 sputum
3 killcow
4 latten
5 apiculture
48 study of kidding 1 alembicated
2 omegoid
3 kidology
4 zarzuela
5 acipenser
49 application of chemistry to medical theory 1 iatrochemistry
2 solacious
3 unipara
4 arbalest
5 syneidesis
50 strait 1 solarise
2 leno
3 alforge
4 venesect
5 fretum
Number Question Answer Your answer
51 looking or moving towards the apex 1 moucharaby
2 consecution
3 illiquation
4 acroscopic
5 alforge
52 small quantity 1 varec
2 anglophobia
3 quantulum
4 stratiform
5 carnaptious
53 massage 1 bodkin
2 monopode
3 cucumiform
4 interjacent
5 chirapsia
54 able to withstand drought 1 xerophytic
2 colposcope
3 noesis
4 panaceist
5 archelogy
55 relating or pertaining to beer 1 cervisial
2 epidiascope
3 lethiferous
4 addax
5 bilocation
56 lullaby 1 castophrenia
2 indoles
3 megaprosopous
4 waftage
5 berceuse
57 excessive flow of words; uncontrollable garrulity 1 wonderwork
2 jaculation
3 logorrhea
4 tonant
5 trochal
58 study of the inheritance of acquired characteristics 1 metromania
2 intussusception
3 ctetology
4 ontogenesis
5 epizoic
59 paper attached to commercial bill requiring signatures 1 vindemiate
2 allonge
3 picaresque
4 tautonym
5 lar
60 star-like; having star-like spots 1 stadiometer
2 tomograph
3 appersonation
4 stellular
5 anguine
Number Question Answer Your answer
61 obese 1 terminism
2 mucago
3 polysarcous
4 solarism
5 fermi
62 fine sheer plain-woven cotton or linen 1 vernalize
2 lawn
3 naumachy
4 plutocracy
5 areometer
63 leather armour with metal scales 1 topophobia
2 palinode
3 anencephalic
4 brigandine
5 xiphophyllous
64 instrument for measuring and recording fluorescence spectra 1 romal
2 vapulate
3 sack
4 rasure
5 spectrofluorimeter
65 sweetened and often medicated drink 1 oscillograph
2 bathophobia
3 idolomancy
4 julep
5 irrision
66 device which amplifies small sounds 1 limacology
2 phonendoscope
3 dacryops
4 subternatural
5 tisane
67 land tenure dependent on will of the lord of the manor 1 copyhold
2 incoronate
3 waqf
4 aesthesia
5 cremaillere
68 having blunt extremities 1 zoogenic
2 bantling
3 vitellary
4 seismotic
5 tornote
69 joint above the hock of a horse 1 ichthyic
2 stifle
3 pushful
4 enceinte
5 slype
70 pertaining to the bladder 1 quartziferous
2 anomia
3 vesical
4 koan
5 montre
Number Question Answer Your answer
71 thorniness 1 liquifacient
2 chorepiscopal
3 beaver
4 spinosity
5 thuriferous
72 medicine of four ingredients 1 boggart
2 spermatic
3 pollex
4 diatessaron
5 pseudepigraphy
73 the stocks 1 ovine
2 putois
3 gymnasiast
4 rhabdoid
5 cippus
74 surveying underground 1 homochiral
2 perse
3 hypogeiody
4 cymophanous
5 foumart
75 artificial dwarfing 1 quotition
2 libriform
3 gules
4 nanization
5 papillose
76 judge or magistrate in ancient Ireland 1 quaestuary
2 brehon
3 tyriasis
4 skean
5 prevernal
77 removal from one place to another 1 selenomancy
2 metaphrase
3 lairwite
4 metastasis
5 thrum
78 sculpture of a man carrying a ram 1 criophore
2 trimacular
3 obstetrics
4 kistvaen
5 procellous
79 gesticulation or mime 1 tuille
2 chironomy
3 baldaquin
4 alb
5 ancress
80 fish life of an area 1 tachograph
2 xenogamy
3 cliometrics
4 absolutive
5 piscifauna
Number Question Answer Your answer
81 feeble or worthless person or animal 1 frankalmoign
2 aethrioscope
3 wallydrag
4 vociferate
5 fougade
82 like a cane or reed 1 brougham
2 ferulaceous
3 phon
4 profectitious
5 flambeau
83 bristled; streaked 1 tesla
2 trangam
3 quadrimium
4 stillatory
5 strigate
84 Eastern Orthodox spiritual advisor 1 faveolate
2 quisguillous
3 rufous
4 piliferous
5 starets
85 gang of slaves tied together 1 coffle
2 dowlas
3 angiology
4 capillaceous
5 anglophobia
86 coin counterfeiter 1 timbrology
2 coniaker
3 rillmark
4 podalic
5 diaphanometer
87 angle between eyelids at the corner of the eye 1 holophrase
2 canthus
3 hylogenesis
4 krasis
5 deuterogamy
88 shaped like a herring 1 harengiform
2 hapax
3 monoxylon
4 deflocculate
5 bezel
89 recurring every eight days 1 incivism
2 metasthenic
3 lamella
4 ratemeter
5 octan
90 horse meat 1 habiliment
2 physiurgic
3 brochette
4 eximious
5 chevaline
Number Question Answer Your answer
91 toll paid on bridges; tax for repairing bridges 1 parasynesis
2 phyllophagous
3 fictile
4 monopsony
5 pontage
92 fear of corpses 1 locellus
2 necrophobia
3 confabulate
4 fulmineous
5 somewhither
93 having an extremely small head 1 nanocephalous
2 hypotyposis
3 slumberous
4 chthonophagia
5 quint
94 blood-letting 1 gallet
2 scutellation
3 phlebotomy
4 photoglyph
5 hamble
95 like or shaped like a nerve 1 glenoid
2 gibus
3 almoner
4 neuralgiform
5 gullery
96 microscopic orifice 1 lampyridine
2 anoesis
3 ferule
4 tercel
5 micropyle
97 purulent 1 hysteresis
2 tinction
3 theomastix
4 mattery
5 stonk
98 poem whose initial letters reproduce its first verse 1 annodated
2 snood
3 paracrostic
4 aesopian
5 aegis
99 thing of little or no value 1 aphagia
2 trucage
3 stiver
4 maundy
5 cenote
100 causing terror; uncanny 1 chark
2 lexigraphy
3 chauffer
4 pokerish
5 enation
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