Odd One Out Trivia Quiz

Answer: grannie

The common rootword is 'granum' (grain). 'Granite' is coarse grained. 'Grange' is a grain-producing farm originally. A 'granary' is where grain is stored.
Also 'gravy' is related to these words as in times past sauces often contained grains.
'Grannie' is of course from grandmother, in which grand derives from French 'grand' for great. Grannies are great indeed..!

Answer: occult

'Occult' is related to "celare": to hide. Hidden magic!
'Binoculars' of course are glasses for both eyes just as a monocle would be meant for one eye only.
An 'oculist' is an eye-doctor.
'Inoculate' originally meant to graft. It is related to eye (= oculus) via phrasings such as "the eyes of a potato" from which new potatoes spring.

Answer: ordeal

'Ordeal' is not related to Latin 'ordo'.It's akin to Dutch 'oordeel' which means 'judgment'. In former times those who had to be judged or had been judged went through quite an ordeal indeed.
'Ordnance' is a work of order and classification.
'Insubordination' is a lack of respect to the hierarchical order of things.
When you 'coordinate' things you have to see to it there is some order in the relation of one thing and another. An orderly togetherness is required.
'Primordial' may seem to be related to Latin 'primus' and 'ordo' (which comes first in the order), but is related to 'primus' and 'ordiri' to begin.
It means: that which comes first, at the beginning.

Answer: to parley

Below 'par' literally means lower than the average performance of your 'peers' or equals.
When you play tennis or a similar sport it is useful that there is a neutral party who is "above" the players. Somebody not on same level. Somebody who is not a peer: an 'un-peer' or 'umpire'.
In Germanic tribes the King was the 'Primus inter pares'. He sometimes had talks with his (near-) equals or peers.
Such talking came down to negotiating deals in many cases. So it was necessary to 'parley' or to have talks. That's what 'Parliament' was created for.
'Nonpareil' is also related to Latin pares.

Answer: novena

Nihil 'novi' sub sole sed the Romans but they had not foreseen the "novas" or stars that suddenly become exceedingly bright and then fade.
A 'novelty' was something new, just as the first 'novellas' and 'novels' were seen as "new stories about new events" hardly different from the true events as now reported in our punctually truthful press.
When a new nun, friar or monk or 'novice' said a novena she/he was not trying out something new but doing something that had to be done nine days in succession: prayers, prayers and prayers again.From Latin 'novem'
Three times three days made it all into something really sacred.

Answer: abdominal

A 'misnomer' means you have given something the wrong name. When an action is too bad to even be 'named' it is 'ignominious'. Of homosexuality the Churchfathers said it was so bad that you better did not mention it. Nec nominetur inter nos. Too bad for names!
'Nominal' means in name only , so rather more symbolical than real. A contribution that's only nominal won't make much difference.
'Abdominal' is an altogether different word and refers to the lower part of the belly.
'Abominable' is related to 'omen' rather than 'nomen'. It refers to what can be deprecated as a bad omen, something leading to very bad consequences.

Answer: liter

The 'literati' are familiar with "letters". They can read and write and may even know about 'literature'.
Those that are 'illiterate' have not learned to read or write.
When you 'obliterate' something, it is as if you blotted out a letter.
'Liter' is not from littera, but from medieval Latin 'litra'. French had 'litre' in 1793 when the metric system was introduced. 'Litron' was an older word that also referred to a measure of capacity.

Answer: maturity

A 'matron' is a motherlike woman. Related to 'mater' and to 'matrix' (the motherwomb).
'Maternity' as in maternity ward means motherhood.
' Matrimony' is the legal step which must be taken, before motherhood becomes legally acceptable.
'Maturity' refers to a ripening process and though this could theoretically be said of bearing children the word itself is not from a derivation of mater. 'Maturus' is a word in its own right.
A 'mate' is a companion or spouse but no motherhood is implied.

Answer: imminent

'Permanent' is what stays forever. Permanent-frost means that the soil is permanently frozen.
A 'mansion' is the residence where you stay more or less permanently.
'Immanent' is used in theology to say that God stays with his world, is "in" it.
'Imminent' is not related to 'manere' (stay; remain). It refers to what is threateningly near.

Answer: manometer

Manometer derives from Greek 'manos' (thin,rare) and metre and is an instrument for measuring the elastic force of fluids.
All the other words are in some way related to Latin'manus' (hand).
Manicure: to take care of someone's hands.
Manacles: what you use to lock somebody's hands together.
Manager is originally from French manege where horses have to be handled.
Handling personnel is probably not too different.
Other words with manus as root word : manoeuver : to work with your hands (manu-operare). To maintain: to hold in hands and in good working order.
Surprising detail: even manure is related to 'manus'. Not that you collected it with your hands but you used it for manual labour on a plot of land.