Quiz 14 of 50 -- Obscure and Unusual Words

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 of or pertaining to vines 1 apocope
2 vineatic
3 zymotic
4 orthian
5 german
2 outside shutter with slats 1 metapsychology
2 scatophagous
3 mucopurulent
4 jalousie
5 cypress
3 cheap sensational novel 1 yellowback
2 lampadomancy
3 sessile
4 uneath
5 arthrology
4 spontaneous generation 1 diphysitism
2 palfrenier
3 autogenesis
4 amphibolic
5 tigerism
5 obesity 1 unbosom
2 tabby
3 enosis
4 lipomatosis
5 etiology
6 study of rivers 1 potamology
2 roach
3 temperative
4 postiche
5 pelage
7 chess move made to play for time 1 macerator
2 swissing
3 zwischenzug
4 polypharmacy
5 gradualism
8 underground 1 mythomania
2 pegamoid
3 sacciferous
4 zootype
5 hypogeal
9 to accelerate; to quicken 1 festinate
2 pycnometer
3 gar‡onniere
4 pileus
5 iridian
10 study of cockroaches 1 quale
2 odoriferous
3 diotic
4 orthopterology
5 kreatophagia
Number Question Answer Your answer
11 trafficking or marketing, especially in discreditable ways 1 triquetra
2 mongery
3 rundale
4 unleal
5 cogent
12 habit or policy of refusing to face unpleasant facts 1 auslaut
2 pyrophanous
3 ostrichism
4 delibate
5 verdigris
13 triangular structure crowning front of a Greek building 1 cordovan
2 acracy
3 sulcal
4 scoptophobia
5 pediment
14 study of the kidneys 1 impedimentary
2 gorget
3 nephrology
4 oast
5 panoptic
15 period of the new moon 1 luciform
2 farraginous
3 chrysophilist
4 neomenia
5 manometer
16 instrument for holding and measuring gases 1 fretum
2 gasometer
3 morsure
4 stiction
5 gummiferous
17 at full gallop; headlong 1 traulism
2 eviscerate
3 trabeculated
4 tantivy
5 myophobia
18 mode of betrothal where gift given by man to woman 1 testudo
2 telamon
3 hitherside
4 subarrhation
5 pannier
19 use of green manure 1 holophrase
2 sideration
3 hecatontarchy
4 nunciative
5 photoglyph
20 that cannot be rejected 1 joist
2 irrecusable
3 scissile
4 gyrograph
5 erythropsia
Number Question Answer Your answer
21 soon after 1 orthopter
2 toft
3 upspeak
4 eftsoons
5 conticent
22 bread-eating 1 hieromachy
2 panivorous
3 upstay
4 hector
5 picaroon
23 tending towards excessive drinking 1 guttiferous
2 micrology
3 thaumatography
4 ebrious
5 tewel
24 like a wing 1 whitleather
2 personalia
3 pterygoid
4 chelonian
5 ret
25 study of China 1 litholatry
2 fundus
3 bausond
4 abaculus
5 Sinology
26 anything with poisonous juices 1 uranoscopy
2 coleopterology
3 marry
4 zosteriform
5 hebenon
27 half-castrated animal 1 viperiform
2 ridgeling
3 thrum
4 niddering
5 voltameter
28 caused from within the body or by the cells of the body 1 somatogenic
2 trionym
3 axiology
4 assuetude
5 antrorse
29 dance with clapping and leg slapping performed by Southern blacks 1 pluviose
2 juba
3 dolichocephalic
4 morkin
5 viticulture
30 crying feebly 1 xerophagy
2 beldam
3 bradyseism
4 abraxas
5 mewling
Number Question Answer Your answer
31 poison-eating 1 toxiphagous
2 keratogenic
3 agonism
4 pedagogics
5 aspersory
32 government with a large bureaucracy 1 jargoon
2 japan
3 tiltmeter
4 mandarism
5 interfluve
33 penis bone in some mammals 1 baculum
2 pinion
3 procephalic
4 acclinate
5 viscometer
34 person of inferior taste; commoner 1 affreightment
2 groundling
3 doppio
4 pullulate
5 mullock
35 much talk with little to say; redundancy; pleonasm 1 puteal
2 princeps
3 anoesis
4 digitate
5 macrology
36 discharging smoke in clouds 1 gnomon
2 graip
3 bellarmine
4 jackanapes
5 nepheligenous
37 feeding on ants 1 preagonal
2 myrmecophagous
3 chondroid
4 lunation
5 thrombus
38 pertaining to turtles or tortoises 1 moria
2 atactic
3 kreatophagia
4 chelonian
5 pluriliteral
39 on or toward the lee 1 liquifaction
2 anacathartic
3 pinguefy
4 alee
5 plantivorous
40 tail-like; tail-shaped 1 ciplinarian
2 caudiform
3 digitigrade
4 adjutor
5 inaurate
Number Question Answer Your answer
41 arrangement of blood vessels 1 collectanea
2 enthalpy
3 damascene
4 vasculature
5 monophylletic
42 intrinsic peculiarity or unique feature 1 dissimulate
2 prevenient
3 dentelle
4 idiocrasis
5 lupiform
43 to belch out; to emit lava 1 plutocracy
2 hecatomb
3 beckets
4 Rabelaisian
5 eructate
44 person in a play or book embodying author's viewpoint 1 intromit
2 illaqueate
3 acatamathesia
4 imponent
5 raisonneur
45 producing musk 1 quirister
2 moschiferous
3 caudal
4 hapax
5 paramedian
46 period before the creation of the earth 1 jackanapes
2 abraxas
3 premundane
4 ejectamenta
5 micrurgy
47 bristly 1 intaglio
2 setose
3 nematology
4 allemain
5 lentigo
48 fear of good news 1 ratihabition
2 rhythmometer
3 quartering
4 euphobia
5 hamate
49 border surrounding a heraldic shield 1 geocarpy
2 haemathermal
3 bordure
4 cresset
5 quiff
50 shaped like a half-moon 1 pav‚
2 scriniary
3 acrotism
4 semilunate
5 carphology
Number Question Answer Your answer
51 long live 1 coggage
2 catoptromancy
3 automysophobia
4 vivat
5 torsive
52 a frilly wig 1 debouchure
2 peruke
3 overpoise
4 thermonous
5 antilogy
53 anything that attracts attention; object of interest 1 cynosure
2 dulia
3 boschveldt
4 tocophobia
5 somniloquence
54 heated to whiteness 1 jurant
2 ecarlate
3 candent
4 estoppage
5 doomster
55 fear of water 1 lugsail
2 mittimus
3 palaeolimnology
4 hydrophobia
5 rampick
56 goods floating on the sea after a shipwreck 1 algetic
2 waveson
3 bourasque
4 zoochorous
5 pogrom
57 corset maker 1 battue
2 datary
3 corsetier
4 sepiment
5 secco
58 weakness of the body 1 chirapsia
2 somatasthenia
3 wantage
4 lour
5 credal
59 like a spirit 1 requital
2 merdivorous
3 footle
4 pneumatomorphic
5 demijohn
60 unmentionable 1 sematic
2 twain
3 cricoid
4 infandous
5 risorial
Number Question Answer Your answer
61 fur seal 1 hadal
2 myology
3 zoomorphism
4 ursal
5 eromancy
62 blindness in one eye 1 hemianopsia
2 representamen
3 fardel
4 immortelle
5 substractor
63 having horns or antennae clipped or removed 1 eunomia
2 madoline
3 kriegspiel
4 brachycerous
5 imbreviate
64 stamped metal token used in card-playing or reckoning accounts 1 jeton
2 pruritus
3 zither
4 suicidology
5 hierodule
65 small door forming part of larger door of a church or castle 1 autonym
2 defiliation
3 wicket
4 saprodontia
5 susurrus
66 unit of liquid capacity equal to two hogsheads 1 pipe
2 appui
3 churching
4 vindemial
5 ectobatic
67 obsolete instrument for cutting open the skull 1 obrogate
2 scholiast
3 trepan
4 ptochocracy
5 pragmatism
68 speaker of all languages 1 spodogenous
2 cingulum
3 pantoglot
4 attorn
5 arcate
69 to walk with stilts or crutches 1 majolica
2 dririmancy
3 iconometer
4 stilp
5 notonectal
70 levity; trifling 1 whifflery
2 algedonics
3 setiferous
4 spiraculate
5 metagnomy
Number Question Answer Your answer
71 theory that self-existence is the only certainty 1 spondulicks
2 synechthry
3 solipsism
4 sorbefacient
5 morphean
72 historical account of water surfaces of the earth 1 histrionic
2 romal
3 cryoscope
4 perscrutation
5 hydrognosy
73 to impose a tax 1 staysail
2 procacity
3 laquearia
4 talliate
5 unguinous
74 little box or casket for jewels or toiletries 1 cerements
2 erogenesis
3 pyxis
4 ordinal
5 scantling
75 tasteless; savourless 1 jumbal
2 pseudandry
3 phaeic
4 epicrisis
5 wearish
76 blunder; error; mistake 1 parapraxis
2 elenctic
3 allative
4 celtuce
5 apocalypticism
77 belief that matter and mind don't interact but relate 1 cambium
2 castellated
3 parallelism
4 swage
5 pliofilm
78 aftermost mast of a four-masted ship 1 coniferous
2 adscript
3 jiggermast
4 gastrolatry
5 kinkle
79 Fallopian tube 1 proscenium
2 catabasis
3 bicorn
4 decussate
5 salpinx
80 fear of sex 1 carking
2 bordure
3 blench
4 coffle
5 genophobia
Number Question Answer Your answer
81 combining human and animal forms 1 therianthropic
2 decanal
3 pulicoid
4 nim
5 ovoviviparous
82 instrument measuring sensitivity to touch 1 remex
2 ingate
3 haptometer
4 deferrise
5 saxigenous
83 numbness in a limb caused by pressure on a nerve 1 coscinomancy
2 aurifex
3 polysyllogism
4 urethroscope
5 obdormition
84 salary-earning class collectively 1 acroteleutic
2 emphyteusis
3 palinode
4 roorback
5 salariat
85 study of grounds of knowledge 1 trichosis
2 gilliver
3 homoiousia
4 vergiform
5 epistemology
86 divination using icons 1 panaceist
2 abeam
3 iconomancy
4 headborough
5 gyrose
87 obnoxious-sounding Japanese stringed instrument 1 subarrhation
2 paradromic
3 asterism
4 koto
5 ninon
88 complement 1 phelloid
2 areometer
3 polylemma
4 explement
5 karyology
89 vestment like an alb worn by Orthodox priests 1 orrery
2 unconsentaneous
3 attemper
4 febricant
5 sticharion
90 generous; charitable 1 dromestoners
2 marocain
3 caritative
4 tribology
5 tricot
Number Question Answer Your answer
91 pigment with brownish colour derived from soot 1 philosophaster
2 millocracy
3 nitrometer
4 bistre
5 hobnail
92 a thingamabob; a gadget; a whatsit; a gewgaw 1 impennate
2 helcoid
3 patroclinous
4 jiggumbob
5 emporeutic
93 small cannon carried on the back of a camel 1 inconscient
2 zumbooruk
3 iridian
4 legerity
5 flammule
94 stake-fence set in stream for catching fish 1 kiddle
2 nubigenous
3 specie
4 distributary
5 outfling
95 pointed tool for making holes for seeds or plants 1 yogh
2 ornithic
3 nyctophobia
4 interdigitate
5 dibble
96 pertaining to trees 1 sylvestral
2 gerontology
3 gynics
4 carpal
5 pernoctate
97 square column partially embedded in a wall 1 opificer
2 stupe
3 pilaster
4 jampan
5 pottle
98 surely 1 protopathy
2 revehent
3 microseismometer
4 iwis
5 carbasus
99 knife-happy surgeon 1 epulotic
2 dysteleology
3 probang
4 perissotomist
5 cotillion
100 one who is kind to the blind 1 recure
2 otology
3 toxiphobia
4 ophiomorphic
5 typhlophile
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