Quiz 40 of 50 -- Obscure and Unusual Words

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 the state of being a pupil 1 potentiate
2 oread
3 flageolet
4 traditive
5 pupillarity
2 instrument for drawing spirals on a plane 1 manubrium
2 helicograph
3 zymosis
4 arcuate
5 pinchbeck
3 broad-leafed plant yielding blue dye 1 larvicide
2 tegmental
3 chock
4 woad
5 kantele
4 assiduous; diligent 1 spiraliform
2 vortical
3 entresol
4 gudgeon
5 sedulous
5 separateness; separate ownership of property 1 tophaceous
2 interim
3 feracious
4 barognosis
5 severalty
6 in flocks 1 albicant
2 paraselene
3 gregatim
4 hippophobe
5 strobic
7 writer or actor of tragedy 1 indult
2 bradawl
3 carriwitchet
4 hirsute
5 tragedian
8 a short, instructive saying or formula 1 metalepsis
2 siderate
3 suctorial
4 apothegm
5 carboy
9 cheap gold-coloured alloy of zinc and copper 1 acerbate
2 photophile
3 frugiferous
4 phalacrosis
5 tombac
10 tactile bristle such as cat's whisker; bristly hair 1 stigmatic
2 consistory
3 vibrissa
4 paralalia
5 lactescent
Number Question Answer Your answer
11 stout linen 1 appropinquity
2 hogshead
3 tulipomania
4 dornick
5 protistology
12 the production or ripening of fruit underground 1 monoliteral
2 dissentient
3 jargoon
4 stelliferous
5 geocarpy
13 necking 1 gemel
2 paizogony
3 antinomy
4 arctoid
5 megachiropteran
14 single-masted, square-sailed ship with raised stern 1 loranthaceous
2 cog
3 quinquefarious
4 camber
5 quercetum
15 of or related to the skin 1 morphew
2 argentiferous
3 cutaneous
4 velour
5 grough
16 turning hand and forearm so that palm faces downward 1 misocapnic
2 aurigation
3 pronation
4 diaphanous
5 obloquy
17 to pay close attention; to listen 1 dicephalous
2 plexiform
3 irenic
4 umbriferous
5 hark
18 an external covering or coating 1 integument
2 arcanna
3 calenture
4 velocipede
5 postmundane
19 unit of pressure equal to 1/760 of standard atmospheric pressure 1 labrose
2 tore
3 hypothecate
4 albugineous
5 torr
20 opposed to monarchic principle 1 antibasilican
2 anacamptic
3 plangency
4 insidiate
5 geocentrism
Number Question Answer Your answer
21 dietetics 1 acidulous
2 sitology
3 monoideism
4 chorology
5 biverbal
22 not subject to a superior 1 surcingle
2 rosmarine
3 allodic
4 jarta
5 galimatias
23 pertaining to kitchen vegetables 1 olitory
2 ballottement
3 dragoman
4 cellaret
5 juvenal
24 lately 1 hippophobe
2 playa
3 alate
4 yuft
5 polystichous
25 relating to coverings or outer shells 1 infumate
2 tegmental
3 protensive
4 janiform
5 obmutescent
26 line connecting points of equal winter temperature 1 mazurka
2 alalia
3 isocryme
4 mileometer
5 intercostal
27 to decamp; to squat 1 virescent
2 tumultuary
3 deoppilate
4 absquatulate
5 alate
28 study of aging or individual decline after maturity 1 idioticon
2 urticant
3 clinology
4 gabardine
5 illude
29 ringed; composed of rings 1 hydrogeology
2 sough
3 piceous
4 abord
5 annulose
30 pertaining to the back 1 deleterious
2 afterguard
3 hygrograph
4 tergal
5 masticate
Number Question Answer Your answer
31 of or like fungus; soft; spongy 1 fungous
2 dipsetic
3 planchet
4 colonnade
5 desacralise
32 to run away from a debt 1 papeterie
2 vernition
3 punctate
4 accrementition
5 levant
33 act of smelling 1 moleskin
2 osmesis
3 salamandroid
4 epagomenal
5 cambist
34 round window, especially over main door in church 1 interclude
2 oculus
3 proemial
4 collogue
5 phallocrat
35 government by harlots 1 bar
2 psilosis
3 pornocracy
4 shabrack
5 maunder
36 of the form or shape of gas 1 alamort
2 gasiform
3 armillary
4 quisguillous
5 paronomasia
37 medicine mixed with honey or syrup 1 harpagon
2 urticate
3 electuary
4 isopach
5 pseudopsia
38 moral of a story or work of literature 1 seron
2 hyperosmia
3 dimity
4 epimyth
5 generalate
39 pertaining to the front of the head 1 procephalic
2 hagiology
3 pismirism
4 opuscule
5 mesnalty
40 rudimentary treatise 1 lampadephore
2 lazar
3 amyous
4 hornbook
5 larboard
Number Question Answer Your answer
41 a small belt or girdle 1 waqf
2 zonulet
3 dubitate
4 nidamental
5 osteophone
42 bank of terracing at a football field 1 polytocous
2 chirography
3 boning
4 kissel
5 kop
43 medieval leather coat worn as armour 1 wiseacre
2 orarion
3 xylotomous
4 jack
5 amanous
44 animal with both lungs and gills 1 patelliform
2 croche
3 harmonometer
4 vivat
5 amphipneust
45 to destroy; to quell; to confound 1 spiflicate
2 gadzooks
3 lentiginose
4 amphisbaena
5 grapholagnia
46 state of being all; allness 1 omneity
2 cymophanous
3 scagliola
4 arpenteur
5 nectopod
47 shaped like a small fibre 1 corbeau
2 lability
3 fibrilliform
4 wordbound
5 pogrom
48 doctrine that a simple and natural life is morally best 1 retrenchment
2 struthious
3 primitivism
4 sederunt
5 putlock
49 honeycombed 1 utriform
2 roturier
3 hyetometer
4 acequia
5 faveolate
50 very keen sense of smell 1 empressment
2 hyperosmia
3 ecbolic
4 emendation
5 crepe
Number Question Answer Your answer
51 letter-writing 1 gavage
2 latrant
3 epistolography
4 saltire
5 estrapade
52 having a veil; veiled 1 whistler
2 janker
3 hackle
4 velate
5 arefy
53 devouring 1 piscine
2 algicide
3 quitrent
4 vorant
5 yare
54 steplike excavation in mining 1 fagin
2 herbose
3 stope
4 bioecology
5 apotropaic
55 study of words and their meanings 1 pole
2 mileometer
3 lexicology
4 archology
5 tralatition
56 out of one's element or natural environment 1 bathophobia
2 kenspeckle
3 sororal
4 depays‚
5 agamogenesis
57 two-wheeled carriage 1 endysis
2 exogenous
3 incipient
4 qanat
5 cabriolet
58 surgical instrument 1 textuary
2 fleam
3 teramorphous
4 gnomonics
5 verticillated
59 fear of thunder and lightning 1 pyroscope
2 loxodograph
3 brontophobia
4 culvertage
5 beloid
60 small headless shoemakers' nail 1 caliology
2 morigerous
3 sparable
4 perioeci
5 cepaceous
Number Question Answer Your answer
61 heavy napped cotton flannel 1 aerogenesis
2 lapidary
3 morphallaxis
4 swansdown
5 pastance
62 to flatter and coax; to cajole 1 calcographer
2 elance
3 blandish
4 polygoneutic
5 philippic
63 to divide; to separate 1 sciaphobia
2 cleithral
3 pellate
4 reticulate
5 portesse
64 device for making multiple copies of written text 1 paedophage
2 hypsography
3 cyclostyle
4 invination
5 glomerate
65 fine brown 1 culverin
2 neophile
3 stomatology
4 saliniform
5 sepia
66 drawbridge 1 pontlevis
2 veloutine
3 pulmonic
4 lobar
5 thurl
67 dentist 1 archelogy
2 passalorynchite
3 odontist
4 vitalism
5 oblivescence
68 waiter or valet 1 sociocracy
2 inglenook
3 cosset
4 cameriere
5 lido
69 light medieval drum buckled onto the player's chest 1 ait
2 tabor
3 cog
4 hypnomogia
5 bibliolatry
70 like or resembling a finger 1 prehensor
2 rood
3 rheology
4 dactyloid
5 melopoeia
Number Question Answer Your answer
71 delay in pleading for amicable adjustment 1 belomancy
2 illiquation
3 imparlance
4 agger
5 writative
72 with long flexible shoots 1 nephrolith
2 vimineous
3 sconce
4 gynocentric
5 congelation
73 parthenogenetic production of females only 1 alliaceous
2 xiphophyllous
3 barodynamics
4 collectic
5 thelytoky
74 of or pertaining to the honeysuckle plant 1 fustilarian
2 pavonian
3 caprifoliaceous
4 pharisaic
5 viridigenous
75 optional; incidental; conferring privilege 1 facultative
2 freeboard
3 jebel
4 infarction
5 verism
76 fear of change 1 theroid
2 histrionic
3 kainotophobia
4 heliolatry
5 albion
77 cobbler 1 antilogy
2 euphonym
3 sutor
4 vitrine
5 scud
78 to borrow 1 witwanton
2 apprompt
3 stomachous
4 gliriform
5 sendal
79 to hiccup, belch or spit 1 judder
2 endogenous
3 fungous
4 yex
5 magniloquent
80 attached to; hanging from; adjunct 1 edaphic
2 appendant
3 pyromancy
4 vetanda
5 echopraxia
Number Question Answer Your answer
81 fleshy spike of flowers 1 estafette
2 spadix
3 hypnogeny
4 daw
5 jarta
82 point for point 1 cryometer
2 seminivorous
3 punctatim
4 hypaethral
5 spermatic
83 to sift through cloth; to examine by sifting 1 scutigerous
2 boult
3 vulpine
4 rideau
5 quiddity
84 under clouds 1 subnubilar
2 viticulture
3 philosophaster
4 bower
5 diriment
85 contention about words or in words 1 logomachy
2 vitiferous
3 gyrograph
4 pyrrhous
5 rorulent
86 doctrine that knowledge depends on faith over reason 1 chirography
2 fideism
3 rictal
4 echoism
5 nymphean
87 belief that an unlikely opinion may be safely followed 1 mancipation
2 laxism
3 soup‡on
4 astatic
5 motte
88 large jug with rounded belly and narrow neck 1 bellarmine
2 subinfeudate
3 trabeculated
4 aristarch
5 oenophilist
89 instrument for measuring solar radiation 1 nychthemeron
2 approbation
3 solarimeter
4 limpid
5 dilatometer
90 divination using burning incense 1 nobilitate
2 electroretinograph
3 dyogram
4 tulle
5 knissomancy
Number Question Answer Your answer
91 one who promises miracles 1 kylin
2 immaterialism
3 wondermonger
4 agnomen
5 taction
92 shock absorber 1 pediculophobia
2 rhema
3 pembroke
4 croceate
5 dashpot
93 rejuvenation of an old man by a young woman 1 shunamitism
2 nullity
3 precatory
4 autogenesis
5 leguleian
94 shaped like a delta or triangle 1 orgulous
2 gatefold
3 deltoid
4 abomasum
5 attollent
95 addition of a final n in the declension of nouns 1 decumbent
2 cantillate
3 schola
4 zoograft
5 nunnation
96 mummy-wrapping fabric 1 toman
2 Priapean
3 ratiocinate
4 tore
5 byssus
97 line connecting points of equal magnetic declination 1 faille
2 urbacity
3 commonition
4 pedagoguery
5 isogonal
98 sacred part of a temple or church; church chancel 1 alectormancy
2 paroemiographer
3 epitonic
4 epicene
5 adytum
99 lawful; legal 1 ennomic
2 verger
3 nuptiality
4 wallydrag
5 ridgeling
100 wool of the undercoat of a musk-ox 1 psychograph
2 modena
3 meliphagous
4 qiviut
5 vallecula
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