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Language and usage: Sample quiz questions
The first answer is the correct one in each case.
What would you be studying if you were an abecedarian?
- The alphabet
- Camels
- Artificial sweeteners
- Pure mathematics
If an animal is jubate, what does it have?
- A mane
- Hooves
- Two stomachs
- A horn
What does a kryometer measure?
- Low temperatures
- Brain activity
- Degree of clinical depression
- Time since death
What is a lamprey?
- A type of fish
- A wick for a paraffin lamp
- A prayer mat
- A book of hymns
If something is described as bacciform, what is it shaped like?
- A berry
- A cigarette
- A sheep
- A chestnut
What is cachinnation?
- Inappropriate laughter
- Thinning of the blood
- Street-dancing
- Castration
What physical feature is a voe?
- A bay or inlet
- A hill
- A valley
- A group of trees
The word prolepsis refers to what?
- Anticipation
- Falling
- Introduction
- Common people
Taphephobia is the dread fear of what?
- Being buried alive
- The number 13
- Water
- Appetizers
Something which is rupestrian is made of what?
- Stone
- Breakages
- Rice
- Horsehair
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