Challenging DU lexophiles..............Do You Know These Very Obscure Words?

[dixiegrrrrl]

I got 8 of 10, mostly by stopping to think hard and eliminating what the choices could not be.


http://games.washingtonpost.com/QuizDetails/?game=trivia_do-you-know-these-very-obscure-words

[TreasonousBastard]

1. 7

[NightWatcher]

6. Same here. I should've known better on Logolepsy and Galactophalo....

[pinboy3niner]

2. 8

[Codeine]

3. 9 of 10.

Galactophagist got me.

[pinboy3niner]

7. It was lactose intolerance. obviously

[zonkers]

4. 4. grrrr.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Now ya know how I got my name...........

[ailsagirl]

8. heh

Congratulations, you scored in the very top rank of obscure word lovers! This was a very tough quiz, but you clearly know your way around a dictionary and must be a demon at the Scrabble board.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. Didja notice...most of those words were wayyyy too long for Scrabble

but fascinating words none the less.

[MerryBlooms]

10. 8/10

Good one!

[jpak]

11. Only 7/10

ugh

[Night Watchman]

12. 4

Now, if I were a baseball player, that'd be really good!

[mainstreetonce]

13. 7

Fun

[Tobin S.]

14. Missed the first five, aced the last five.

[3catwoman3]

15. 9 out of 10 for me.

Nantle was my undoing. I have never even seen most of those words.

[Rhiannon12866]

16. Only five out of 10, though I was on the fence about another two

And here I thought I was good with words, used to write for a living!

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. I am a voracious reader...but never saw any of those words

What got me thru that test was some knowledge of root words and Latin...you know, when you look a word up and it gives the origins of it, which is generally Latin or Greek

and , I guessed luckily on a few.

[Fla Dem]

17. 6/10. Still better than 95% of population. So I'm ok with that!