Time for the Word Nerd quiz!
PRIZES
First person who correctly answers all questions wins a $300 Amazon.com gift card.
Second person who correctly answers all questions wins a $200 Amazon.com gift card.
Three people (randomly selected) who answer all questions will each win a $100 Amazon.com gift card.
RULES
One entry per person.
Answers will be hidden until Thursday afternoon. You might be able to see your answers, but no one else will.
Read each question very carefully.
Choose the BEST possible answer.
1. Which of these words means “to dry thoroughly”?
a. prevaricate
b. inculcate
c. desiccate
d. castigate
2. Something that is diaphanous is:
a. hazy
b. lazy
c. crazy
d. daisy
3. Which of these words describes something that is dark and gloomy?
a. capacious
b. commodious
c. caliginous
d. sententious
4. Lugubrious means:
a. fluid
b. mournful
c. thorough
d. celebratory
5. Which of these words means to discover, detect or perceive?
a. excoriate
b. abrade
c. ameliorate
d. descry
6. A word that desribes a bitter disagreement is:
a. sockdolager
b. dross
c. nadir
d. imbroglio
7. A plenipotentiary is a:
a. diplomatic agent
b. professor
c. cashier
d. school administrator
8. Which of the following is a truffle?
a. Achillea millefolium
b. Allium cepa
c. Solidago canadensis
d. Tuber aestivum
9. Which of these terms describes being derived from or provided by charity?
a. lectionary
b. eleemosynary
c. ablutionary
d. accretionary
10. All of the following are birds, except:
a. Tinamou
b. Cassowary
c. Leporinous
d. Chachalacca
11. When a word changes its meaning and pronunciation when capitalized, this is a:
a. hypernym
b. capitonym
c. meronym
d. metonym
12. A speech disorder in which a word, phrase, or sentence that my be repeated several times with increasing rapidity and decreasing distinctness is:
a. bradykinesa
b. palilalia
c. disarthryia
d. apraxia
13. Which of the following is not involved with painting?
a. gesso
b. rheobase
c. scumbling
d. tempera
14. Which of these terms describes branching like a tree?
a. mendicant
b. prolix
c. apostapic
d. dendroid
15. The act of placing close together for contrasting effect is:
a. interposition
b. contraposition
c. juxtaposition
d. intraposition
16. A cenote is a:
a. dam
b. butte
c. sinkhole
d. steppe
17. You would describe someone who was being noisy as:
a. perspicacious
b. obstreperous
c. anandrous
d. exsangicious
18. A depraved, unprincipled or wicked person is a:
a. fulgurant
b. palatinate
c. mordant
d. reprobate
19. True or false – The following word is an actual word:
Erandible
20. True or false – The following word is an actual word:
Shigella
Good luck!