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Words Worth(e) Wielding Trivia Quiz

I will present some new and wonderful words...some may have similar meanings and some quite different connotations despite their similarities...in the end, I hope you bag these words and use them, occasionally...

A multiple-choice quiz by thejazzkickazz. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
thejazzkickazz

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
64,837

Updated
Oct 19 23

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
535

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. Which term describes a 'former' position occupied by someone? Hint

Sometime

Exordium

Quotha

Doxy

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Question 2 of 10

2. Intinct and Instinct are the same word? ( yes-no )

Yes

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Question 3 of 10

3. Hyperprosexia and a person exhibiting a quisquous expression might be taken for the same thing. What do you think?

Yes

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Question 4 of 10

4. I generally start a conversation with: 'Beshrew my forwardness...but isn't that an example of a misplaced catachresis?' What does beshrew mean anyway? Hint

curse

deny

forgive

pet kindly my bestial quality

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which word is seemingly opposite in meaning to 'Divulsion'? Hint

Dimissory

Dishabille

Cleaving

Confession

6. Thales was witless to fall into a well, weening the welkin's starry diagrams to show him the next eclipse when the well showed him the darkness sooner than he supposed . Who wrote of the comedy of a distrait philosopher falling flatly into a well? Hint

Euripides

Anaxagoras

Sophocles

Aristophanes

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Question 7 of 10

7. I often wonder whether it is more charming to have Blue-footed boobies or a brazen booboisie of friends...I believe now, the former makes better company. What are the booboisie? Hint

chills

masses

wild women chasing me around

headaches

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Question 8 of 10

8. 'My are we not the 'procacious' child?' Is that the same as the 'precocious child' that we are so fond of? (yes or no)

Yes

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Question 9 of 10

9. An imposthumated caruncle often I do find upon my toe especially, since I wear sport shoes filled with bathybius soles. What should I do with these specimens that aggregate in excess on my feet? Hint

Insects make interesting pets

Abscessed flesh ought to be burned off

Microbes are met with antiseptics

A conjecture on my toe, that is new!

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Question 10 of 10

10. William James is known for his cryptic and ephectic comments; why do you suppose he was so ephectic? Hint

He wrote an essay on the Suspension of Disbelief

His brother wrote too much

His beard is so long

He was the older brother

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. Which term describes a 'former' position occupied by someone?

Answer: Sometime

2. Intinct and Instinct are the same word? ( yes-no )

Answer: no

I generally intinct my hands into my food when I eat in private, and stuff my self voraciously...that is when no one is looking around.

3. Hyperprosexia and a person exhibiting a quisquous expression might be taken for the same thing. What do you think?

Answer: yes

Hyperprosexia is a condition of focussing on one thing to the exclusion of everything else. Something quisquous is puzzling or confusing, and may need some serious attention to work out.

4. I generally start a conversation with: 'Beshrew my forwardness...but isn't that an example of a misplaced catachresis?' What does beshrew mean anyway?

Answer: curse

5. Which word is seemingly opposite in meaning to 'Divulsion'?

Answer: Cleaving

Divulsion refers to tearing apart, while one common meaning of cleave is to cling onto something. However, cleave can also be a verb meaning to divide, so it is not necessarily the opposite of divulsion - it all depends on how the word is being used. None of the other words is related to the idea of splitting or joining things.

Answer: Aristophanes

7. I often wonder whether it is more charming to have Blue-footed boobies or a brazen booboisie of friends...I believe now, the former makes better company. What are the booboisie?

Answer: masses

This word was actually coined by H.L. Mencken to describe the intolerant drones of the masses.

8. 'My are we not the 'procacious' child?' Is that the same as the 'precocious child' that we are so fond of? (yes or no)

Answer: no

Procacious is an unruly and beastly child lacking manners, whilst a precocious child is a slightly 'gifted' kid who listens to adult commands with care.

Answer: Abscessed flesh ought to be burned off

10. William James is known for his cryptic and ephectic comments; why do you suppose he was so ephectic?

Answer: He wrote an essay on the Suspension of Disbelief

Folie de doute is often the disease faced by Pragmatic philosophers dealing with defeasible arguments, probably which would be in the future contradinstinctive to past hypotheses.

Source: Author thejazzkickazz

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