EPIC Vocabulary Test

Are you ready to elevate your vocabulary beyond the commonplace? This quiz presents a unique challenge, delving into the rich and nuanced lexicon of the English language. It features words of exceptional rarity, encompassing intricate meanings and subtle connotations. If you possess a thirst for linguistic knowledge and a desire to master the less-traveled corners of our vocabulary, then prepare to be tested, and perhaps even bested...
 
1 of 20
A feeling of vague discontent or weariness.
Petrichor
Lacuna
Malaise
Dilapidation
 
2 of 20
To walk about purposefully with energy and confidence.
Swagger
Saunter
Stride
Meander
 
3 of 20
A condition of weakness or feeling of unwellness arising from overindulgence in food or drink.
Surfeit
Malaise
Lassitude
Dyspepsia
 
4 of 20
A person's face or facial expression.
Comportment
Deportment
Physiognomy
Mien
 
5 of 20
Behaving or looking as though one thinks one is superior to others.
Unctuous
Obdurate
Supercilious
Fulsome
 
6 of 20
Hint
Extreme unwillingness to spend money or use resources without regard to how much you actually have.
Lavish
Impecunious
Penurious
Parsimonious
 
7 of 20
The quality of being open and honest in expression; frankness.
Loquacious
Candor
Garrulous
Voluble
 
8 of 20
The act of renouncing or rejecting something.
Inundation
Ascendance
Abdication
Repudiation
 
9 of 20
Sweet-sounding and flowing.
Cacophony
Mellifluous
Zephyr
Susurrus
 
10 of 20
Not fully-formed; lacking structure or clarity.
Crepuscular
Tentative
Inchoate
Ephemeral
 
11 of 20
The pleasant, earthy smell after rain.
Limerence
Agastopia
Petrichor
Accismus
 
12 of 20
To criticize harshly, and often persistently.
All answers are true
Berate
Castigate
Excoriate
 
13 of 20
A lover of learning and knowledge.
Philomath
Malingerer
Dallier
Dilettante
 
14 of 20
Deceitful, treacherous, or two-faced.
Obsequious
Perfidious
Pernicious
Bilious
 
15 of 20
Bitter, ill-tempered, and irritable.
Convivial
Perfidious
Bilious
Fastidious
 
16 of 20
Generous with giving; very lavish.
Mercurial
Munificent
Obsequious
Erudite
 
17 of 20
Hint
A government, especially an authoritarian one, with an excessive bureaucracy.
Oligarchy
Autocracy
Personalist regime
Kakistocracy
 
18 of 20
Causing sorrow or melancholy; mournful.
Pernicious
Mรฉlange
Lachrymose
Erudite
 
19 of 20
A temporary stay.
Intransigent
Sojourn
Supercilious
Indocile
 
20 of 20
Warlike or eager to engage in fight or aggression.
Nefarious
Quixotic
Lugubrious
Bellicose
 
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