"obscure" word quiz

[Melissa D. Binde]

Twas brillig, on Thu May 03 at 12:21:04 PM, and Jed Hartman burbled:

> Some of these I don't consider obscure at all; others I've never heard of.

Hmmmm.  You are a more studly wordsmith than I am :).

I thought all of them at least merited "obscure" or "uncommon", and there
were a bunch I'd never heard of.

I've never taken Latin or Greek, but I guess I've absorbed more of it than I
thought: only one of them was a totally blind guess ("killick), and I
managed to get 10/10 :).

Part of the problem was that it was sometimes painfully obvious which one
they were trying to mislead you into selecting (e.g. with "jerboa"), which
gave me at least a 50% chance of getting it right even if there _weren't_
other clues like vague memories of roots, suffixes, and vague feelings about
the context I'd heard the word in before.



-M.