Can You Define These Tricky English Words?

Do you love English? Do you love learning new words, even if they aren't really in use anymore? Then you've found the right quiz! Prepare to be tested on your advanced English because most of these words are little known, and you need to figure out what they mean!
 
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What is the meaning of the word: "Facetious"?
Someone who doesn't take the situation seriously
Someone who lies all the time
Someone who is pretending to be polite
Someone who covers their face in public
 
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What is the meaning of the word: "Crapulous"?
Feeling round and fat
Becoming bloated
Suffering the effects of too much food and drink
Suffering the effects of being rotund
 
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What is the meaning of the word: "Kerfuffle"?
Originally, a fight to the death between gladiators
What soldiers used to call their burnt breakfasts
Making a fuss out of something unimportant
A small fight between children
 
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What is the meaning of the word: "Obsequious"?
Someone so mean they are barely human
Something redundant
Someone who is so nice it seems fake
Something that is present everywhere
 
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What is the meaning of the word: "Pot-valor"?
Courage that comes from being hungry
The courage of the lower classes
A low, barely existing type of courage
Courage that comes from drinking alcohol
 
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What is the meaning of the word: "Poppycock"?
An exclamation of disbelief
A type of vermin that lives on poppies
A title for land owners
A title for poppy farmers
 
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What is the meaning of the word: "Effable"?
Something that is divine
Something that can be described in words
Someone who knows all
Someone who can do no wrong
 
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What is the meaning of the word: "Exsanguine"?
A person who extinguishes joy
A person who is bloodless, anemic
A person who is no longer with the church
A person who was happy but now is morose
 
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What is the meaning of the word: "Ragamuffin"?
A person who wears dirty and scruffy clothes
A person who cannot move any of their limbs
A person who looks like a doll
A person who is poor and hungry
 
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What is the meaning of the word: "Meldrop"?
A drop of mucus in the nose
A drop of dew left on a plant leaf
A thousand drops
The standard amount of medicine during the 19th century
 
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What is the meaning of the word: "Agelast"?
An object that lasts the pressures of time
A person who manages a nursing home
A common medicine in the 50s for "longer living"
A person who never laughs
 
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What is the meaning of the word: "Discombobulate"?
Make someone less comfortable
Move someone to a place they don't know
Confuse someone
The process of acclimating to regular air after deep sea dives
 
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What is the meaning of the word: "Woebegone"?
Positive thinking
A type of poem made to gladden the heart
When someone is surrounded by sadness
The name of a yellow flower
 
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What is the meaning of the word: "Pantagruelian"?
Huge, enormous
A religion based on the pentagram
Tiny, insignificant
 
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What is the meaning of the phrase: "Rug Rat"?
A large mouse
A small dog
A small child
A treasure hidden in plain view
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