Quiz 21 of 50 -- Obscure and Unusual Words

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 divination using idols 1 prelusive
2 idolomancy
3 neogenesis
4 saprodontia
5 perlocution
2 to make less crass or boorish 1 salariat
2 strabismus
3 decrassify
4 postjacent
5 baetyl
3 the formation of leaves 1 jeofail
2 tortious
3 frondescence
4 proxenete
5 noyade
4 worship of words 1 libidinist
2 sondage
3 micrology
4 lavra
5 epeolatry
5 large single-sailed ship powered by rowers 1 dromond
2 lignify
3 plenum
4 tumescent
5 syphilology
6 indicating the predicate 1 predicative
2 sedulous
3 filatory
4 natatorium
5 ablow
7 bearing globules 1 pluviograph
2 globuliferous
3 fatalism
4 bandolier
5 mycteric
8 a wide bay; a bend or coil in a rope 1 bight
2 oligarchy
3 exheredate
4 cynophobia
5 sinciput
9 very small stone tool 1 ktenology
2 enthetic
3 mekometer
4 microlith
5 morse
10 to administer extreme unction to 1 anele
2 unzymotic
3 multiscience
4 prefatorial
5 telos
Number Question Answer Your answer
11 means of defence; record fortifying or proving a claim 1 agersia
2 saccadic
3 muniment
4 brougham
5 rowen
12 back pain 1 sexology
2 notalgia
3 canorous
4 gadarene
5 jawhole
13 lamp, candlestick or torch 1 lampad
2 xanthic
3 impignorate
4 rhizome
5 ponceau
14 pulsating 1 ultroneous
2 chalastic
3 whodunitry
4 stupefacient
5 sphygmodic
15 adaptation to very dry conditions 1 xerophily
2 apopemptic
3 ebrious
4 peirastic
5 krypsis
16 stone mill worked by hand 1 quern
2 gigantomachy
3 cacogenics
4 locuplete
5 tophaceous
17 to construct a nest 1 merlon
2 odorivector
3 radioscope
4 nidificate
5 decrement
18 jutting forward 1 projacient
2 metanalysis
3 champaign
4 decrassify
5 judogi
19 able to whiten or be whitened 1 hierolatry
2 speciocide
3 salinometer
4 tunicle
5 albificative
20 small dish for soup or porridge 1 ridgeling
2 margaritiferous
3 nacket
4 tabby
5 porringer
Number Question Answer Your answer
21 proper education to induce human progress 1 pascual
2 eupsychics
3 musrol
4 venule
5 kine
22 pillar 1 bracciale
2 creatophagous
3 protoplast
4 hebetude
5 hypostyle
23 cross-country skiing or running 1 langlauf
2 fasces
3 bucentaur
4 instauration
5 heliology
24 of or relating to the foreskin 1 superfetation
2 arithmancy
3 panegoism
4 preputial
5 trindle
25 to despoil 1 belvedere
2 hippocrepian
3 octactinal
4 palaeopedology
5 untreasure
26 middle of sail, fish-net or cloth when slack 1 aberdevine
2 ogive
3 agnosy
4 pole
5 bunt
27 having a muscular origin 1 visard
2 myogenic
3 bricole
4 buncombe
5 perlocution
28 tending to quote; given to quoting 1 maliferous
2 quotatious
3 triune
4 jetavator
5 hyalography
29 growing of a beard 1 scatology
2 pogonotrophy
3 airscrew
4 morris
5 bacchanal
30 opaque watercolour paint 1 progeria
2 cyclostyle
3 pottle
4 statuary
5 gouache
Number Question Answer Your answer
31 spontaneous; voluntary 1 ultroneous
2 sulphureous
3 signate
4 epinician
5 spectrometer
32 ox with hump and dewlap 1 vernition
2 kop
3 ratline
4 zebu
5 contesseration
33 natural channel bypassing rapids or body of river 1 retropulsion
2 zoetic
3 snye
4 rhythmometer
5 constringe
34 worship of stars 1 graphology
2 noumenon
3 bonasus
4 astrolatry
5 animastic
35 restraining; preventative 1 colytic
2 genarch
3 plumbeous
4 radicated
5 coram
36 having teeth like a shrew's 1 crash
2 soricident
3 catechectics
4 hippophobe
5 optimate
37 laundromat or launderette 1 washeteria
2 inculcate
3 pilule
4 cariole
5 olecranon
38 circular wax catcher that fits over a candle 1 transmissometer
2 multisonant
3 jug
4 bobeche
5 extispicy
39 pulley system for raising topgallant masts 1 turnery
2 carfax
3 evaginate
4 jack-block
5 zoogeography
40 lifting up; raising 1 coadjutor
2 procathedral
3 hircismus
4 attollent
5 patibulate
Number Question Answer Your answer
41 counting using the fingers and toes 1 wardroom
2 dactylonomy
3 bathophobia
4 pornocracy
5 accinge
42 divination using horses 1 trismus
2 eviternal
3 transude
4 hippomancy
5 niramiai
43 divination using shells 1 forfex
2 diptych
3 conchomancy
4 abecedarian
5 morro
44 representation of Virgin Mary with dead Christ across her knees 1 consenescence
2 stridor
3 epithesis
4 pieta
5 gadroon
45 tree having the whole crown cut off 1 vocicultural
2 secque
3 gimbals
4 pollard
5 handsel
46 denial of Christ's divinity 1 tetrapolis
2 gamogenesis
3 psilanthropism
4 calvities
5 rifacimento
47 instrument for measuring amount of salt in a solution 1 raddle
2 rimose
3 salinometer
4 camisole
5 squinch
48 instrument for detecting earthquakes 1 semanteme
2 meconology
3 earing
4 seismoscope
5 silviculture
49 slug 1 quinsy
2 minimuscular
3 limax
4 sophism
5 anhelation
50 instrument for measuring speed of rhythms 1 rhythmometer
2 strabometer
3 interpunction
4 enow
5 funipendulous
Number Question Answer Your answer
51 shading or lines showing a slope on a map 1 tosticated
2 hachure
3 ophiophilist
4 commatic
5 mussitate
52 the office of a general 1 decantate
2 iconostasis
3 tantivy
4 dolichopodous
5 generalate
53 a letter of the alphabet 1 embayment
2 grapheme
3 gramineous
4 spoliative
5 slug
54 gaping 1 punctiform
2 fructiferous
3 crista
4 ringent
5 predacious
55 against; in contrast to 1 oneiromancy
2 parataxis
3 versus
4 tricephalous
5 cancrine
56 veil worn by Greek women 1 kalyptra
2 pannychis
3 apical
4 motte
5 isothere
57 defence 1 theorbo
2 hogshead
3 propugnation
4 mammogenic
5 anneal
58 full of kernels 1 Momus
2 ankus
3 heterophemy
4 trivirgate
5 acinaceous
59 lacking a brain 1 glareous
2 stithy
3 phlegmatic
4 anencephalic
5 syneidesis
60 in open air 1 aquifer
2 labile
3 sphingal
4 subaerial
5 sharkskin
Number Question Answer Your answer
61 study of soils 1 coccineous
2 jasperated
3 metonymy
4 watchet
5 pedology
62 of a blue or purple colour 1 metastasis
2 hyacinthine
3 pertussis
4 omphalopsychite
5 ladronism
63 pastoral staff or crook held by bishop or abbot 1 obvolvent
2 keister
3 ctetology
4 agrypnotic
5 crosier
64 fear of virgins 1 proclivitous
2 hamate
3 parthophobia
4 naissant
5 buhl
65 founder of a colony 1 macaronic
2 helminthiasis
3 minuet
4 resorb
5 oecist
66 having many functions 1 prevision
2 thanatophobia
3 wanze
4 whitherward
5 polyergic
67 manlike or heroic woman 1 superfetation
2 virago
3 nimiety
4 catalactics
5 litotes
68 figure with minimum number of vertices 1 gromatic
2 glumiferous
3 simplex
4 paradromic
5 skippet
69 canopy over a bed, pulpit or altar 1 separatrix
2 ferroniŠre
3 interscribe
4 dolorific
5 tester
70 female castle owner, manager or caretaker 1 solacious
2 chatelaine
3 reglet
4 encephaloid
5 beneficiate
Number Question Answer Your answer
71 bad breath 1 woolbird
2 ozostomia
3 cervisial
4 molossus
5 lucent
72 to any place whatsoever 1 hexactinal
2 viaggiatory
3 sumpsimus
4 whithersoever
5 pentapolis
73 science of pests 1 pestology
2 agoraphobia
3 agatewear
4 arthroscope
5 pluriliteral
74 dense twilled wool or worsted fabric 1 broadcloth
2 prelapsarian
3 albion
4 traumatropism
5 heteroscian
75 one who receives and writes spirit messages 1 chionablepsia
2 intromit
3 pneumatographer
4 lochetic
5 benthic
76 either of the sides of the upper deck of a ship 1 lampyridine
2 gangway
3 xerarch
4 spanker
5 aitchbone
77 correct speller 1 genethliacon
2 rubiginous
3 additament
4 stylography
5 orthographer
78 hospital maternity ward 1 rhytidectomy
2 torulose
3 isocryme
4 abditive
5 natuary
79 to overshadow 1 whin
2 obumbrate
3 subluxation
4 sexton
5 infaust
80 unhappy marriage 1 cagamosis
2 lambrequin
3 ailurophobia
4 cricoid
5 armigerous
Number Question Answer Your answer
81 to sprinkle 1 lionism
2 stylobate
3 exigible
4 mutative
5 asperge
82 worthless rock in which valuable metals occur 1 barrulet
2 esemplastic
3 vivisepulture
4 latitudinous
5 gangue
83 of or pertaining to ticks 1 anencephalic
2 preagonal
3 argyll
4 ixiodic
5 stanhope
84 joining or fitting together 1 paedonymic
2 chorographer
3 choreutic
4 coaptation
5 psychogram
85 pertaining to the palm or the sole; pertaining to flight 1 fragor
2 volar
3 necrolatry
4 epithesis
5 chymiferous
86 to immerse; to plunge 1 encyclical
2 iconomachy
3 demerge
4 tanistry
5 roric
87 neglect of duty as a citizen 1 pedate
2 aguardiente
3 postil
4 incivism
5 hebamic
88 treatise or text on medical topics 1 iatrology
2 instrumental
3 gabble
4 killcrop
5 dioptre
89 beginning or introduction to a composition 1 papeterie
2 chalcotriptics
3 spider
4 exordium
5 tussicular
90 attachment to guide projectile through bore of firearm 1 heliotaxis
2 trap
3 acclivity
4 sabot
5 coronach
Number Question Answer Your answer
91 difference between cost of minting coin and its value 1 brassage
2 oneiric
3 syngraph
4 divisim
5 sabulous
92 of or relating to the number nine 1 pedicle
2 whereof
3 madefy
4 zopp
5 novenary
93 fine tropical rain falling from cloudless night sky 1 scacchic
2 alphitomancy
3 serein
4 dysphoria
5 applanate
94 eating insects 1 insectivorous
2 panhygrous
3 tachymetry
4 forefoot
5 sphygmophone
95 drawing back 1 pedipulate
2 cunabula
3 potshop
4 soothly
5 retrahent
96 study of fevers 1 revalescent
2 athanasy
3 kleptocracy
4 biotope
5 pyretology
97 priestly; bound by religious convention 1 spagyric
2 subnascent
3 agist
4 hieratical
5 refrangible
98 the science of crayfish 1 epiclesis
2 lacuna
3 astacology
4 percheron
5 ostensory
99 X-shaped cross 1 clevis
2 gyle
3 saltire
4 odonterism
5 xylocarp
100 of or pertaining to the law 1 jural
2 undeify
3 poriferous
4 aleberry
5 aileron
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