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Bodacious Word Endings Trivia Quiz

If former English teacher nannywoo bought a farm, she might need an interpreter. See if you can identify these words ending in -tious, -cious, and -ceous.

A multiple-choice quiz by nannywoo. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
nannywoo

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
349,341

Updated
Jul 23 22

# Qns
10

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Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
776

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Question 1 of 10

1. To keep busy after retiring, nannywoo bought a free-range chicken farm. What adjective does she use to scientifically classify her barnyard fowl? Hint

gallinaceous

avaricious

camphoraceous

nonnutritious

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Question 2 of 10

2. Nanny decides to give the chickens a sand and gravel floor in their coop. Find the word she uses to describe the sandy soil. Hint

argillaceous

arenaceous

adscititious

salacious

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Question 3 of 10

3. Nanny plants rows of beans and peas. The bean blossoms have winged corollas that look like butterflies. What word does she use to describe them? Hint

rapacious

carbonaceous

papilionaceous

sequacious

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Question 4 of 10

4. The chickens are out! They're eating the apples and pears in the orchard! What word does nannywoo use to describe the fruit? Hint

pomaceous

cetaceous

orchidaceous

stercoraceous

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Question 5 of 10

5. Nanny's grandchildren are chasing the chickens! She tells them not to be so "turbulently active and noisy"! What does she accuse them of being? Hint

sententious

rambunctious

precious

tufaceous

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Question 6 of 10

6. Nanny's chickens produce enough eggs for breakfast every day. She crows about her successful investment in chickens, using this word. Hint

sebaceous

factitious

efficacious

alliaceous

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Question 7 of 10

7. After gathering eggs early in the morning, nannywoo is feeling edacious. What word is a synonym for "edacious"? Hint

angry

tired

hungry

puzzled

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Question 8 of 10

8. Nanny overcooks the breakfast eggs, and they are as tough as leather. Which word means "leathery"?
Hint

crustaceous

coriaceous

cementitious

testaceous

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Question 9 of 10

9. To go with eggs for breakfast, Nanny cooks some Cream of Wheat. What word does she use to describe this cereal? Hint

foliaceous

loquacious

saponaceous

farinaceous

10. After her farming activity, nannywoo needs to relax. Luckily, there are grapes on the farm. After crushing the grapes and waiting for fermentation, she can have a glass of red wine. Which word does she use to talk about the grapes and wine? Hint

fictitious

vinaceous

mendacious

abstentious

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. To keep busy after retiring, nannywoo bought a free-range chicken farm. What adjective does she use to scientifically classify her barnyard fowl?

Answer: gallinaceous

Gallinaceous means "resembling domestic fowls and pheasants"; camphoraceous has to do with camphor; avaricious means greedy. The hens' eggs are nutritious, one hopes, not nonnutritious.

2. Nanny decides to give the chickens a sand and gravel floor in their coop. Find the word she uses to describe the sandy soil.

Answer: arenaceous

Arenaceous means sandy or consisting largely of sand; argillaceous means consisting of clay; adscititious means supplemental; and salacious means lustful.

3. Nanny plants rows of beans and peas. The bean blossoms have winged corollas that look like butterflies. What word does she use to describe them?

Answer: papilionaceous

Papilionaceous means resembling a butterfly; carbonaceous has to do with carbon; sequacious means following in a sequence; and rapacious relates to seizing by force.

4. The chickens are out! They're eating the apples and pears in the orchard! What word does nannywoo use to describe the fruit?

Answer: pomaceous

Pears and apples are pomes, therefore pomaceous; orchids are orchidaceous; whales and dolphins are cetaceous; and dung is stercoreaceous.

5. Nanny's grandchildren are chasing the chickens! She tells them not to be so "turbulently active and noisy"! What does she accuse them of being?

Answer: rambunctious

The children may be precious, but chasing chickens is rambunctious behavior. Nanny Woo is sometimes sententious (given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner) but seldom tufaceous (like a particular kind of porous rock).

6. Nanny's chickens produce enough eggs for breakfast every day. She crows about her successful investment in chickens, using this word.

Answer: efficacious

Efficacious implies the ability to produce a desired effect. Factitious means artificial. If something is alliaceous, it smells like or otherwise pertains to garlic, onions, etc. Sebaceous has to do with secreting fat.

7. After gathering eggs early in the morning, nannywoo is feeling edacious. What word is a synonym for "edacious"?

Answer: hungry

Fans of the classic Monty Python "Cheese Shop Skit" know that "edacious" is a synonym for "hungry" or what has happened if you "suddenly came over all peckish" or became "esurient," or "wor 'ungry-loike"!

8. Nanny overcooks the breakfast eggs, and they are as tough as leather. Which word means "leathery"?

Answer: coriaceous

While they all convey a quality of hardness, "coriaceous" means leathery; "crustaceous" means having a crustlike shell (like a crustacean); "cementitious" refers to cement; "testaceous" means having a hard shell or outer covering (like an echinoderm) and can also refer to a color of bricks.

9. To go with eggs for breakfast, Nanny cooks some Cream of Wheat. What word does she use to describe this cereal?

Answer: farinaceous

The correct word is farinaceous: Cream of Wheat (a brand name) is called farina. Foliaceous means something is like a leaf, and saponaceous means soapy. Nanny Woo has been known to be loquacious (talking a lot), but cereal doesn't talk.

Answer: vinaceous

The word "vinaceous" refers to grapes and wine, especially red wine. Of course, this story is fictitious (not true) and mendacious (given to lying), and a person like Nanny Woo, who is abstentious, should not be drinking that wine.

Source: Author nannywoo

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