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English Words & Origins

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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

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

An onomastician studies what?

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Names

Lahnaphophobia is the fear of what?

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Vegetables

What is philography?

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Autograph collecting

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 origin of the word hoax?

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

Parascopisim is what sexual behaviour?

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Voyeurism through bedroom windows

What is the name given to someone who studies plants?

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Botanist

What is the chief symptom of someone suffering from oniomania?

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An uncontrollable desire to buy things.

What do noologists study?

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The mind.

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

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Thick Skinned

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.

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

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Tea

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

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Meteorology.

A petrologist studies what?

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Rocks, their history and formation etc

What is philography?

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Autograph collecting

Spell Miscellaneous.

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MISCELLANEOUS!

Nostology is the study of what?

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Senility

What ‘m’ is something purely fictitious?

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Myth

What is a quadruped?

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Any four footed animal

Thaslophobia is the fear of what?

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Sitting Idle — doing nothing

Limnology is the study of what?

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Marshes. From Greek

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.

What does Kamikaze mean in English

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Devine wind

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 is the only English word anagram of ‘wrong’?

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Grown

Elizabeth I had anthrophobia what was she afraid of?

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Roses

Daysypgal people suffer from what?

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Hairy Arse

Ornithophily is what?

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A type of reproduction among flowering plants.

If you had pogonophobia what would you be afraid of?

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Beards

Which word can mean a flat-bottomed boat?

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Punt

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.

Oikophobia is the fear of what?

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Houses

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

What word for unthinking patriotism is derived from the name of one of Napoleon’s admirers?

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Chauvinism.

Bovine means cow-like. What does murine mean?

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Mouse-like.

What kind of voice does someone have if he or she is oxyphonic?

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Unusually shrill.

What is another common name for the word Calligraphy?

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Handwriting. The art of fine handwriting, in which the form of the letters is decorative or elaborate. The term is usually applied to writing done in ink, but can also refer to inscriptions in a cursive script on stone or engraved in metal.
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