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English Words & Origins

Are you an etymology enthusiast? A grammar guru? If you think you have some [sic] trivia skills, now's not the time to feel tense. Period.

Which of the following is the correct spelling — dessiccated, desiccated, dessicated?

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Desiccated

What ‘p’ is to contaminate?

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Pollute

What ‘n’ is an old word for promontory or headland?

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Ness

What is the Latin word for ‘elsewhere’ which we use to mean that the person under suspicion was somewhere else when the crime was committed?

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Alibi

What is philography?

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Autograph collecting

An onomastician studies what?

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Names

Lahnaphophobia is the fear of what?

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Vegetables

Elizabeth I had anthrophobia what was she afraid of?

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Roses

What is the only English word anagram of ‘wrong’?

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Grown

Ornithophily is what?

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A type of reproduction among flowering plants.

Daysypgal people suffer from what?

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Hairy Arse

Which word can mean a flat-bottomed boat?

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Punt

If you had pogonophobia what would you be afraid of?

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Beards

Oikophobia is the fear of what?

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Houses

What is the only word in the English language that both begins and ends with the letters u-n-d?

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Underground.

What is the origin of the word hoax?

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It’s believed to be a contraction of “hocus,” from the expression hocus pocus.

Which word could mean either a piece of coal, a horse, a swan or a bread roll?

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Cob

What is the name given to someone who studies plants?

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Botanist

Parascopisim is what sexual behaviour?

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Voyeurism through bedroom windows

What do noologists study?

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The mind.

What is the chief symptom of someone suffering from oniomania?

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An uncontrollable desire to buy things.

What is the Latin for ” I will please” a word used to mean a sugar pill that has no active effect?

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Placebo.

An elephant is called a pachyderm what does it literally mean?

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Thick Skinned

What is the term given to the study of the weather?

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Meteorology.

What word can be added to the following to make 3 more words – Spoon, Tennis, Wine?

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Tea

What is philography?

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Autograph collecting

A petrologist studies what?

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Rocks, their history and formation etc

Nostology is the study of what?

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Senility

Spell Miscellaneous.

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MISCELLANEOUS!

What is a quadruped?

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Any four footed animal

What ‘m’ is something purely fictitious?

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Myth

Limnology is the study of what?

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Marshes. From Greek

Thaslophobia is the fear of what?

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Sitting Idle — doing nothing

What does Kamikaze mean in English

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Devine wind

If you were a Lepidopterist, what would your hobby be?

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Collecting Butterflies or moths

What disorder’s name is derived from the Greek for “without appetite”?

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Anorexia’s.

How do you spell the word Pneumonia?

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P n e u m o n i a

Atephobia is a fear of what?

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Imperfection

What word describes the minimum number of members required to be present for the proceedings of an assembly to be valid ?

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Quorum

A Rafter is a collection of what creatures?

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Turkeys

What does an acrophobic fear?

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Heights

What word in the English language has the most definitions?

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Set

Cab’, as in taxi, is short for which word?

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Cabriolet

Alopecia meaning baldness comes from Greek word for what?

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Fox – Mange = Bald

What are yurts?

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The domed, circular portable tents used by the nomads of Mongolia and Siberia.

Europhobia is the fear of what?

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Female Genitals

Which word went with Britannia to describe the supposedly vibrant late 90s?

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Cool.

What is the word meaning the act of killing a fetus in the womb?

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Aborticide

What do you do if you are ‘somniloquist’?

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You talk in your sleep

What word comes after Cloak, Ball and Waiting to form 3 new words?

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Room
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