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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. Winners will be announced Thursday night.

Read each question very carefully.

Choose the BEST possible answer.

 

1. Scrabble is a fun game, but the not-so-fun definition of the verb scrabble is:

a. to complain annoyingly
b. to persistently try to gain an unfair advantage
c. to scratch or grope in an effort to hold onto something
d. to be lazy around others who labor

 
 
 

2. Which of the following words means “traveling from place to place”?

a. peripatetic
b. atomistic
c. hermetic
d. dithyrambic

 
 
 

3. A part of theology concerned with death and the destiny of the soul is:

a. eschatology
b. aetiology
c. lepidopterology
d. zymology

 
 
 

4. Someone who is interested in Pedagogy is most likely to be pursuing:

a. teaching
b. law
c. medicine
d. cycling

 
 
 

5. An interstice is:

a. an intervening space
b. bridge
c. supporting structure
d. boundary

 
 
 

6. Which of the following is another word for “goose bumps”?

a. opprobrium
b. noisome
c. chimera
d. horripilation

 
 
 

7. Which of the following describes something that occurs suddenly and severely?

a. abradant
b. fulminant
c. termagant
d. introgressant

 
 
 

8. What does a lucubrator do?

a. writes diligently
b. sculpts meticulously
c. wanders aimlessly
d. promotes anarchy

 
 
 

9. Which specialty of dentist would you see if you had a problem with gum disease?

a. Pedodontist
b. Endodontist
c. Peridontist
d. Prosthodontist

 
 
 

10. A word derived from a place, such as champagne from Champagne, France, is:

a. meronym
b. eponym
c. toponym
d. exonym

 
 
 

11. TRUE or FALSE: Abecedarian means “arranged alphabetically.”

 
 
 

12. Name an (INFORMAL) English word starting with the letter ‘V’ that means to “leave quickly” or “get out of here.”

 
 
 

13. What does Wobegone mean?

 
 
 

14. Which of the following words means “fester”?

a. inquorate
b. suppurate
c. jugulate
d. copemate

 
 
 

15. All of the following are meanings of the word costive except:

a. constipated
b. feverish
c. reluctant
d. slow to act

 
 
 

16. What does mirthful mean?

 
 
 

17. True or False: Uxorious means “excessive fondness for one’s wife.”

 
 
 

18. Sabulous means:

a. gritty
b. wholesome
c. slippery
d. pompous

 
 
 

19. Government by the wealthy is:

a. statocracy
b. plantocracy
c. plutocracy
d. kakistrocracy

 
 
 

20. The technique of repeating a word or phrase for emphasis is:

a. pedology
b. palilogy
c. scatology
d. amphilogy

 
Good luck, guys!


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