What's The Word For That? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Aglet

Also a computer technology term for mobile agents!

Answer: Bivouac

Usually associated with the military or mountain climbers, it is originally from the German, 'beiwache', which means watch or vigil.

Answer: Cadge

Cadge derives from the Middle English, 'cadgear', a reference to a peddler or a hustler.

Answer: Delimited

Delimited describes the limits of something, i.e. police powers are delimited by law!

Answer: Edacious

Edacious is from the Latin for gluttonous, from 'edo', to eat.

Answer: A personal secretary

A famulus is a literary term for a personal secretary or attendant. It is from the Latin for servant.

Answer: Gelid

Gelid is from the Latin, 'gelidus', meaning frosty, icy or extremely cold and is the source for the English word jelly!

Answer: Harp

A harp is obviously also a musical instrument and the word itself comes from the German language!

Answer: Ionone

Ionone is yellowish in colour and is used in perfume making. From the Greek, 'ion', for violet.

Answer: Clergyman

Josser originally came from pidgin English. Joss referred to Chinese religious images and originated from a Portuguese word for God. In the UK it is insulting to call someone a josser.

Answer: Kick

Also called a 'punt', the term dates from the early 1860's. Plato said, "Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was ever granted by the gods to man"!

Answer: Lasket

A lasket is a loop on a sail for securing another sail, probably from the French, 'lacet', but it's true origin is unknown.

Answer: Moil

Moil refers to hard work, but is originally from the Latin, 'mollis', which means soft! Mohey is a West African word derived from the word mohair; Moiety means half of something into which something else is divided; maunder means to talk incoherently or to wander about aimlessly.

Answer: Nimiety

Nimiety means an excess or over abundance of something, from the Latin, 'nimis', which means 'too much'. Nim is a game; nefarious means extremely wicked; ninon is a sheer silk or synthetic material.

Answer: Obloquy

Obloquy also means disgrace suffered from public condemnation; Obligor, a legal term, refers to someone making a legally binding agreement; obliquely means indirectly or at an angle that is not a right angle; obovoid, in botany, describes fruit that are egg-shaped!

Answer: Perfunctory

Perfunctory is from the Latin source of the English word 'function'; pusillanimous means not having courage or cowardly; pericline, in geology, describes a rock fold or a mineral with long white crystals; parlous means fraught with danger!

Answer: Quarrel

Quarrel also means an argument between two people; quota means a proportional share of something; quilt refers, usually, to a bed cover or the making of same; a quidnunc is a gossip.

Answer: Radioscopy

Radiotherapy is medical treatment with radiation; radiophoto describes a photo or image sent by radio waves; and, radiology is the branch of medicine that uses x-rays or radioactivity to diagnose and treat diseases.

Answer: Sonorous

Sonorous is from the Latin meaning noisy or loud; sonogram is a graphical presentation of sound (also echogram); a sonnet is a fourteen-line rhyming poem; sonority is a noun meaning resonance or having a sonorous quality!

Answer: Timbrel

The word Timbrel, biblically, also referred to a small drum and is from the French 'timbre'; timbre refers to the tonal quality of speech or music; timpani refers to the drums in an orchestra.

Answer: Usnea

Usnea is a type of lichen, from the Persian language; the Usk is a river in southern Wales; usufruct means the legal right to use someone else's property; usury is the lending of, ususally money, at outrageous rates.

Answer: Viz.

Viz. is the shortened form of the Latin word 'videlicet' and is an adverb with various meanings, and as such must be followed by a noun or noun phrase in the English language. A vidclip is a short video (contraction of video clip); vivo means in a lively way, from the Latin meaning alive; vlei is a South African term for low-lying land, from the Dutch word for valley.

Answer: Webisode

The noun, webisode, is a slang term; webhead is also a slang term for a frequent user of the World Wide Web; webcast refers to a broadcast on the World Wide Web; webster is an archaic term for a weaver, from the Old English 'webbestre'.

Answer: Yakka

Yakka is an Australian slang term, usually 'hard yakka'; Yajna is from the Sanskrit for a Hindu sacrifice; yakitori is Japanese grilled chicken kebabs and literally means 'grilling fowl'; and, a yamen is a Chinese officials' residence.

Answer: Zygodactyl

Zygodactyl refers to birds with two pairs of toes, like woodpeckers; zygomorphic means having identical halves; zygotene is a stage in cell division; zygosity refers to the characterisation of a genetic trait.