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Words Mega Quiz

Answer these questions about strange or uncommon words
Source: "5,000 Awesome Facts (About Everything)" by National Geographic Kids
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Last updated: June 23, 2022
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First submittedJune 22, 2022
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What is the covering at the end of a shoelace called?
Aglet
What word, used by astronauts, describes three objects
in space that are in a line?
Syzygy
What ~50,000 word novel does not use the letter "e"?
Gadsby
What language is thought to have the most words?
English
How many words, in English, end in "-gry"?
Two
What is a goat's beard called?
Goatee
How many official languages does India have?
23
What do you call a word that is spelled the same both ways?
Palindrome
A sentence that uses every word of the English alphabet is called a...
Pangram
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What is the name for a group of cats?
Clowder
What's the name for a group of prisoners?
Pity
What figurative language device is a sound word?
Onomatopoeia
What is the name for someone who collects bird eggs?
Oologist
What Hawaiian word means both hello and goodbye?
Aloha
A snickersnee is a large...
Knife
Coulrophobia is the fear of...
Clowns
What type of poetry has three lines with a certain syllable pattern?
Haiku
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