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Are You a Walking Dictionary? Trivia Quiz

A simple quiz, I'll give you the dictionary meaning, or meanings - you give me the word! Some are difficult, some are quite easy, some are multiple choice, some are not!

A multiple-choice quiz by Engadine. Estimated time: 9 mins.

Author
Engadine

Time
9 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
98,214

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
25

Difficulty
Difficult

Avg Score
11 / 25

Plays
4020

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 25

1. Food, ointment or perfume of the Greek and Roman gods or something extremely pleasing to taste or smell. What is this word? Hint

Amber

Ambidextrous

Ammonal

Ambrosia

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Question 2 of 25

2. Numerous, generally small, elongated marine fishes - scaled and scaleless. What is this word? Hint

Blennies

Blini

Bennies

Blinis

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Question 3 of 25

3. An elaborate embellishment in vocal music. Broadly speaking, music with ornate figuration. What is this word? Hint

Cholera

Coloratus

Coloratura

Colonnade

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Question 4 of 25

4. As an adjective or adverb, this word has current Australian and New Zealand usage, meaning genuine, from an old english word meaning work or share of work. What is this word?

Answer: (One Word - starts with D)

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Question 5 of 25

5. Glowing and warmly enthusiastic praise, a synonym for eulogy. What is this word? Hint

Empyrean

Encomium

Embolism

Enclitic

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Question 6 of 25

6. Of Scandinavian origin, this word means to giggle. What is this word? Hint

Flier

Fastidious

Fit

Fleer

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Question 7 of 25

7. A plot of cultivated land belonging to a parish church. What is this word? Hint

Grebe

Gimlet

Girt

Glebe

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Question 8 of 25

8. Possibly from the Scots, usually describing an uproar. What is this ten letter word?

Answer: (One Word - starts with H)

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Question 9 of 25

9. From the Italian to engrave, what word is this? Hint

Incantation

Intaliare

Intaglio

Incision

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Question 10 of 25

10. An Australian timber. What six letter word is this?

Answer: (One Word - starts with J)

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Question 11 of 25

11. This noun of French/Arabic etymology refers to a dye. What is this word? Hint

Kibbutz

Kern

Kermit

Kermes

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Question 12 of 25

12. A Latin adjective meaning lacking in restraint, especially sexually. What is this ten letter word?

Answer: (One Word - starts with L)

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Question 13 of 25

13. Meaning an aromatic gum resin, what is this five letter word?

Answer: (One Word - starts with M - think biblical)

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Question 14 of 25

14. This noun with an unknown origin means a fool! What is this ten letter word?

Answer: (One Word - starts with N)

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Question 15 of 25

15. A noun that describes something to do with mountains. What is this word? Hint

Oleograph

Orography

Orb

Ormolu

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Question 16 of 25

16. This noun is from the French for an instrument used to copy. Its name comes from two Greek words meaning 'to write all'. What is this word? Hint

Photocopier

Pantograph

Pictogram

Photograph

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Question 17 of 25

17. This noun is the name of a South American tree. What is this seven letter word?

Answer: (One Word - starts with Q)

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Question 18 of 25

18. A French noun modified from Italian, literally means to respond. What is this seven letter word?

Answer: (One Word - starts with R - think fencing!)

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Question 19 of 25

19. An obsolete musical instrument. What is this word? Hint

Shawm

Sloyd

Sitar

Silvan

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Question 20 of 25

20. Dating back to before the 12th century this word describes a small/medium sized bird. What is this word? Hint

Thrush

Throstle

Tit

Tern

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Question 21 of 25

21. This noun means the amount a cask lacks of being full. What is this word? Hint

Umbrage

Ullage

Ukelele

Utricle

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Question 22 of 25

22. Any of a genus of leguminous plants. What is this five letter word?

Answer: (One Word - starts with V - rhymes with fetch!)

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Question 23 of 25

23. Literally means cloud, from old English and high German. What is this word? Hint

Woolly

Whelk

Weld

Welkin

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Question 24 of 25

24. An English noble was said to have bet against the dealing of such a hand in bridge. What is this word? Hint

Yashmak

Yorkshire

Yegg

Yarborough

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Question 25 of 25

25. A member of a French infantry unit composed of Algerians. What is this word? Hint

Zoroastrian

Zygal

Zygote

Zouave

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Food, ointment or perfume of the Greek and Roman gods or something extremely pleasing to taste or smell. What is this word?

Answer: Ambrosia

Ambrosia is a Latin noun, from the Greek, literally meaning immortality. From 'ambrotos immortal'.

2. Numerous, generally small, elongated marine fishes - scaled and scaleless. What is this word?

Answer: Blennies

Blenny is noun from the Latin 'blennius', a sea fish, from the Greek 'blennos'. The plural is blennies.

3. An elaborate embellishment in vocal music. Broadly speaking, music with ornate figuration. What is this word?

Answer: Coloratura

Coloratura is a noun, from the latin, 'coloratus', literally meaning, colouring. A soprano with an agile voice could specialise in coloratura!

4. As an adjective or adverb, this word has current Australian and New Zealand usage, meaning genuine, from an old english word meaning work or share of work. What is this word?

Answer: Dinkum

In the Aussie vernacular this word is often used after 'fair', i.e., 'fair dinkum', to mean truly, honestly!

5. Glowing and warmly enthusiastic praise, a synonym for eulogy. What is this word?

Answer: Encomium

Encomium is a noun with the plurals, encomiums or encomia. Latin, from the Greek 'enkomion', meaning revel, celebration.

6. Of Scandinavian origin, this word means to giggle. What is this word?

Answer: Fleer

As a verb, fleer means to laugh or grimace in a coarse derisive manner, also, to sneer. As a noun it means a word or look of derision or mockery.

7. A plot of cultivated land belonging to a parish church. What is this word?

Answer: Glebe

This noun is from the Latin 'gleba' meaning clod, land. The archaic meaning is land, specifically a plot of cultivated land.

8. Possibly from the Scots, usually describing an uproar. What is this ten letter word?

Answer: Hullabaloo

This noun, with the plural hullabaloos is from 'hallo' and the Scots 'balloo'. Usually means a din or an uproar.

9. From the Italian to engrave, what word is this?

Answer: Intaglio

From the Latin, 'intaliare' meaning to cut. An engraved design in a hard material, depressed, so an image in relief is created from an impression of the design.

10. An Australian timber. What six letter word is this?

Answer: Jarrah

This noun, from the Western Australian aboriginal language 'Nyungar' means a eucalyptus tree with rough bark and alternate leaves. Also describes its wood.

11. This noun of French/Arabic etymology refers to a dye. What is this word?

Answer: Kermes

From the French 'kermes' and the Arabic 'qirmiz' meaning the dried bodies of female scale insects (genus 'kermes'), found on a mediterranean oak, that make up a red dye. Also, the red dye.

12. A Latin adjective meaning lacking in restraint, especially sexually. What is this ten letter word?

Answer: Licentious

This adjective, from the Latin 'licentiosus', means lacking legal or moral restraint. Especially, disregarding sexual restraints or disregarding strict rules of correctness.

13. Meaning an aromatic gum resin, what is this five letter word?

Answer: Myrrh

This noun, from the Latin 'myrrha' of Greek or Semitic origin, is a yellowish to reddish brown aromatic gum resin with a bitter, pungent taste obtained from a tree in eastern Africa and Arabia.

14. This noun with an unknown origin means a fool! What is this ten letter word?

Answer: Nincompoop

Dating from 1676 this nouns' etymology is unknown. Meaning a fool or a simpleton!

15. A noun that describes something to do with mountains. What is this word?

Answer: Orography

Scientific etymology, this noun describes a branch of physical geography that deals with mountains.

16. This noun is from the French for an instrument used to copy. Its name comes from two Greek words meaning 'to write all'. What is this word?

Answer: Pantograph

From the French 'pantographe'. The Greek origin words are 'panto' (all, every) and 'graph' (write). This is an instrument for copying (as a map) on a predetermined scale. Also, an electrical trolley carried by a collapsible, adjustable frame.

17. This noun is the name of a South American tree. What is this seven letter word?

Answer: Quassia

New Latin, from 'Quassi' the name of a slave who discovered the medicinal value of quassia, a drug used as a bitter tonic and remedy for roundworms and as an insecticide. Could also be, 'Quillai' (Quillaja saponaria) an evergreen tree from Chile.

18. A French noun modified from Italian, literally means to respond. What is this seven letter word?

Answer: Riposte

A modification of the Italian 'risposta', from the Latin 'respondere'.
It is a fencer's return thrust following a parry, and, a retaliatory verbal sally or manoeuvre or measure.

19. An obsolete musical instrument. What is this word?

Answer: Shawm

From the middle English 'schalme', middle French 'chalemie', old French alteration of 'chalemel' and the Latin 'calamellus'. An early double-reed woodwind instrument.

20. Dating back to before the 12th century this word describes a small/medium sized bird. What is this word?

Answer: Throstle

The noun, throstle, is the name for an English thrush, specifically a song thrush. From middle/old English.

21. This noun means the amount a cask lacks of being full. What is this word?

Answer: Ullage

Middle English 'ulage', middle French 'eullage', old French 'ouil eye' (meaning bunghole), from the Latin 'oculus eye'. The amount that a container (tank or cask) lacks of being full.

22. Any of a genus of leguminous plants. What is this five letter word?

Answer: Vetch

This noun from the middle English 'vecche', old French 'veche' and the Latin 'vicia' is any of a genus ('Vicia') of herbaceous, twining, leguminous plants.

23. Literally means cloud, from old English and high German. What is this word?

Answer: Welkin

From old English 'wolcen' and old high German 'wolkan' (meaning cloud)welkin means the vault of the sky, the firmament, or, the celestial abode of God or the gods, heaven, or, the upper atmosphere!

24. An English noble was said to have bet against the dealing of such a hand in bridge. What is this word?

Answer: Yarborough

The Second Earl of Yarborough who died in 1897 bet a thousand to one against the dealing of a hand containing no ace and no card higher than a nine. Such a hand was called a yarborough from 1900 on!

25. A member of a French infantry unit composed of Algerians. What is this word?

Answer: Zouave

French, from the Berber 'ZwAwa' (a Berber tribe), meaning a member of a French infantry unit originally composed of Algerians who wore a brilliant uniform and performed spirited drills, or, a member of a military unit adopting the dress and drill of the Zouaves!

Source: Author Engadine

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