How it works
Does lachrymose mean tearful or listless, and which of taciturn, garrulous and voluble is the quiet one? This vocabulary trivia asks what words mean, from everyday words to rare ones, with each answer linked to its dictionary entry.
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Vocabulary trivia questions, multiple choice
Every question has four choices. Everyday words has reluctant, frugal and drowsy. Words from books moves on to ubiquitous, ephemeral and aloof, which began as an order given at sea. Rare words reaches susurrus, gossamer and the nadir of a career.
Vocabulary trivia questions and answers, with the reason
Each answer adds a second sense of the word or where it came from. Synonyms asks for the nearest word to wily, laconic or bucolic. Odd one out shows four words, three of a kind, and asks for the stranger.
- For a classroom warm-up, read Everyday words aloud and take a show of hands before you tap a choice.
Questions and answers
What are some easy vocabulary trivia questions?
What does weary mean? What is a vacant house? What does drowsy mean? The answers are tired, an empty one and sleepy. The first round has fourteen like these.
What does sesquipedalian mean?
A sesquipedalian word is a long one, with many syllables. The Latin behind it meant a foot and a half long. The same word can name a person who likes to use long words.
How were the answers checked?
Each right answer restates a sense given in the word's English entry in Wiktionary, the free dictionary, read on October 14, 2026 and linked beside the question. A wrong choice is never another sense that the entry lists.