Quiz 10 of 50 -- Obscure and Unusual Words

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 something which requires correction 1 corrigendum
2 micromancy
3 onyxis
4 velocimeter
5 pridian
2 card game in which jack of club has highest value 1 gradual
2 parquet
3 pam
4 similiter
5 orpiment
3 governess; chaperone 1 duenna
2 corban
3 galanty
4 guttiform
5 potamic
4 addition of extra day to lunar calendar every 300 years 1 proemptosis
2 pyrolatry
3 stratocracy
4 megaprosopous
5 ormolu
5 old English letter for voiced 'th' sound 1 frisson
2 cariniform
3 theodicy
4 osphresis
5 eth
6 pearl-bearing 1 pretermit
2 aberuncators
3 perfectionism
4 fulminate
5 margaritiferous
7 feeding on decaying material 1 telegnosis
2 quelch
3 farrow
4 porrect
5 saprophagous
8 stiff durable corded fabric of cotton, rayon or silk 1 secundogeniture
2 lactoscope
3 visiogenic
4 piqu‚
5 boston
9 slow solemn Italian or Spanish dance 1 pseudography
2 colophon
3 euphonism
4 cervicorn
5 passacaglia
10 wrestling school; gymnasium 1 stylite
2 cannikin
3 palaestra
4 transpontine
5 inescatory
Number Question Answer Your answer
11 brush-like 1 fuji
2 scopulate
3 heddle
4 whithersoever
5 addle
12 strong-smelling sweat 1 bromidrosis
2 dispurvey
3 transumption
4 electrocardiograph
5 invination
13 of or pertaining to puberty 1 theatromania
2 schematomancy
3 limn
4 succentor
5 hebetic
14 hermaphroditic; being of or resembling both sexes 1 gastroenterology
2 sempiternum
3 assoil
4 gynandroid
5 pornocracy
15 assistant bishop 1 calcariform
2 lacertilian
3 metallurgy
4 aneabil
5 suffragan
16 of or relating to a nymph 1 zopp
2 nymphean
3 autocephality
4 alectryomancy
5 nocuous
17 sacristy for sacred vessels in Orthodox churches 1 diaconicon
2 holobaptism
3 pythonism
4 uprist
5 tressilate
18 woman affecting a fastidious over-refinement 1 intinction
2 inquirendo
3 puberulent
4 helobious
5 pr‚cieuse
19 having strong weapons; militarily potent 1 prolation
2 extramundane
3 armipotent
4 comport
5 leucochroic
20 squint 1 strabismus
2 brachycatalectic
3 sabot
4 eupathy
5 lief
Number Question Answer Your answer
21 lower stay of rope used to sustain strain of the forestays 1 myringa
2 taurine
3 velocimeter
4 decalvant
5 martingale
22 instrument for tracing the outline of mouldings 1 laicism
2 behoof
3 dodecafid
4 cymograph
5 enchiridion
23 building stone difficult to split into layers 1 patation
2 anglomania
3 mellisonant
4 woodmeal
5 freestone
24 providing natural immunity against harmful substances 1 literator
2 antiblastic
3 tropometer
4 pubigerous
5 queach
25 bearing silver 1 oogenesis
2 satyrism
3 argentiferous
4 berm
5 apprompt
26 worship of dogs 1 pansophy
2 venerous
3 custrel
4 orchidomania
5 cynolatry
27 old name for mercury 1 quicksilver
2 monarchy
3 adit
4 ornithophobia
5 dentiologist
28 small flute or recorder with two thumb holes 1 ecdysiast
2 scholarch
3 barbigerous
4 flageolet
5 arachnophobia
29 moving quickly 1 anglomania
2 citigrade
3 heapstead
4 pogonophobia
5 sepulchre
30 lacking ears 1 thewe
2 anotic
3 tetramerous
4 biloquist
5 saxifragous
Number Question Answer Your answer
31 of or pertaining to the forehead 1 wontless
2 rhinoscope
3 metopic
4 dendritiform
5 craniometer
32 the practice of whipping oneself or another 1 dumose
2 flagellantism
3 soricident
4 ossify
5 minnesinger
33 bringing inwards 1 parisyllabic
2 acroamatic
3 soilure
4 advehent
5 remanent
34 government by holy men 1 mignon
2 diffarreation
3 douceur
4 eke
5 hagiocracy
35 woman's fur cape 1 escalade
2 pelerine
3 gypsiferous
4 troika
5 pleochroic
36 shaped like a mouth 1 tigerism
2 oriform
3 archimime
4 hoplology
5 gynocracy
37 feather-shaped 1 penniform
2 entomology
3 aggrate
4 hydroscopist
5 reprography
38 study of venereal disease 1 papaverous
2 keloid
3 venereology
4 cartiliginous
5 antinomy
39 one who climbs buildings for sport 1 panegyry
2 stegophilist
3 koine
4 incubus
5 duenna
40 obsession with writing 1 enfilade
2 bouillotte
3 allogamy
4 extrospection
5 graphomania
Number Question Answer Your answer
41 bolt or pin on which something turns, as a hinge 1 stipiform
2 laciniate
3 pintle
4 immiseration
5 whistler
42 government or rule by God 1 wame
2 harmoniphone
3 xylogenous
4 cataclasm
5 theonomy
43 pertaining to a dean or deacon 1 bacchanal
2 antre
3 habilitate
4 dunnage
5 decanal
44 fear of being tickled by feathers 1 electroscope
2 pteronophobia
3 entozoology
4 maculomancy
5 heliosciophyte
45 inability or hardship in pronouncing letters 'g' and 'k' 1 compellation
2 tegmental
3 gammicism
4 nephelometer
5 pessimum
46 brittle, bluish-white metallic element 1 unreeve
2 antimony
3 cillosis
4 anadem
5 fibula
47 rotting 1 putrefaction
2 anthelminthic
3 blunge
4 multiflorous
5 pixilated
48 mounting, setting or frame 1 purfle
2 purulence
3 monture
4 zygomorphic
5 catalectic
49 ornamental choir-screen 1 tabescent
2 niccolic
3 jube
4 nictate
5 dysphemism
50 to hamper or restrain 1 vainglory
2 vulcanology
3 trammel
4 versicular
5 lunulate
Number Question Answer Your answer
51 of the form or shape of velvet 1 saccharimeter
2 nephrolith
3 villiform
4 deflexure
5 anteprandial
52 an old crone, past the age of sexual attractiveness 1 ligulate
2 stellular
3 ribibe
4 kumiss
5 rutilant
53 instrument for recording torsional vibrations on an object 1 paludose
2 mumpsimus
3 ginnel
4 torsiograph
5 gnathonic
54 window 1 mockado
2 weedicide
3 agname
4 ventana
5 chaplet
55 lemon-coloured; lemony 1 spermology
2 sanatory
3 trivirgate
4 citreous
5 morgue
56 macerated and softened; like porridge; pulpy 1 scribable
2 pultaceous
3 paraclete
4 siderography
5 anaglyptics
57 cooked animal entrails 1 intercalary
2 ginnery
3 lavaliere
4 haslot
5 alannah
58 to hear a confession from and give absolution 1 sealine
2 shrive
3 dreikanter
4 muscariform
5 remora
59 having four leaves 1 clupeoid
2 quark
3 quadrifoliate
4 rameal
5 mycosis
60 forestry 1 periclitate
2 cinque-pace
3 sylviculture
4 entablature
5 allotheism
Number Question Answer Your answer
61 raised ornament on top of upright end of seats in churches 1 breccia
2 pyrophobia
3 poppyhead
4 obsequent
5 fantassin
62 hay season 1 erotetic
2 micrology
3 haysel
4 sempster
5 transmarine
63 study or discussion of trivialities 1 hippoid
2 tufa
3 monochord
4 sorrel
5 micrology
64 to feel or express discontent or dejection 1 naiant
2 criophore
3 quenelle
4 gazar
5 repine
65 of or pertaining to butter 1 petrophilous
2 efferent
3 coaptation
4 monochord
5 butyric
66 a worker for a local politician or political party 1 heeler
2 diorism
3 pudor
4 semantology
5 omniferous
67 high-sounding 1 diesis
2 geminiform
3 somniloquence
4 hypnagogic
5 altisonant
68 art of engraving on steel 1 siderography
2 bardocucullus
3 encomium
4 lustrate
5 byssine
69 to decorate with historical designs 1 storiate
2 luculent
3 periclinal
4 substruct
5 monopsony
70 invisible emanation; offensive exhalation or smell 1 plastron
2 latifundia
3 papyraceous
4 effluvium
5 marquisette
Number Question Answer Your answer
71 predacious; of or relating to a bird of prey 1 lobate
2 raptorial
3 cornuted
4 radular
5 mora
72 to encourage 1 hypocaust
2 amanous
3 callisteia
4 nubecula
5 accourage
73 deaf; senseless 1 stegmonth
2 hark
3 fecalith
4 jive
5 surd
74 a figure engraved into a gem or another substance 1 hakenkreuz
2 senescent
3 intaglio
4 urethroscope
5 hydromancy
75 small depression or pit 1 tallage
2 hippomancy
3 scrobiculus
4 nivellate
5 evirate
76 shaped like a saucer or kneecap 1 torpillage
2 patelliform
3 tinchel
4 kelt
5 troat
77 clay box in which pottery is packed for baking 1 superessive
2 epithalamion
3 bobstay
4 pardine
5 saggar
78 one capable of speaking with two distinct voices 1 hadeharia
2 kerygma
3 biloquist
4 pomology
5 bdellism
79 coitus 1 pietism
2 chawdron
3 pareunia
4 trap
5 chaton
80 bear-baiting using dogs 1 unleal
2 bullionism
3 stummel
4 cynartomachy
5 mattoid
Number Question Answer Your answer
81 at or toward the rear 1 assizer
2 transvolation
3 retral
4 tribade
5 rhaebosis
82 shaped like a heap 1 cittosis
2 funebral
3 cumuliform
4 mercurial
5 disseize
83 arrangement, distribution or disorder of hair 1 trichosis
2 sacculiform
3 yarpha
4 perorate
5 lorette
84 to doubt; to hesitate 1 pliofilm
2 zither
3 zoogamy
4 perissology
5 dubitate
85 futile, futile repetition in speech or writing 1 cleidomancy
2 bursal
3 battology
4 pteronophobia
5 lythcoop
86 obituary writer 1 herdic
2 thelytoky
3 misotheism
4 hoplomachy
5 necrographer
87 somewhat 1 kyle
2 somedeal
3 mellification
4 curmurring
5 accend
88 belief in the dual nature of Christ 1 xenophobia
2 archelogy
3 diphysitism
4 nothous
5 eidolon
89 many-handed 1 scissure
2 fremitus
3 briarean
4 nymphean
5 phratry
90 to absolve; to acquit 1 typtology
2 introspectionism
3 delate
4 retromancy
5 assoil
Number Question Answer Your answer
91 to gratify or please 1 psychogony
2 cremaillere
3 subungual
4 aggrate
5 dicerous
92 large moulding along base of a pedestal 1 tussicular
2 crotaline
3 solidum
4 patroon
5 interim
93 wedge-shaped piece of metal that holds another in place 1 gib
2 chanticleer
3 stuprate
4 ostensory
5 montre
94 goal-directed or purposive behaviour 1 nuncio
2 theopathy
3 heterophemy
4 monopode
5 horme
95 small triangular ventilation window in a car 1 pileum
2 antibasilican
3 decomplex
4 festinate
5 quarterlight
96 indicating causation 1 gestatorial
2 factive
3 antistrophe
4 forebitt
5 epistrophe
97 shaped like an S or a sigma 1 eventration
2 sigmate
3 volitorial
4 vestiary
5 aggiornamento
98 large green bottle encased in wicker 1 ignicolist
2 maculose
3 divulsion
4 xenodochium
5 carboy
99 paragraph-mark 1 mouldwarp
2 antithalian
3 pilcrow
4 nullifidian
5 whitecoat
100 spokesman; speaker of the House of Lords 1 doucet
2 semasiology
3 prolocutor
4 lanai
5 topophilia
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