Just 17% of College Graduates Can Accurately Guess the Definition of These Words

These words are so unusual that not many people know their definitions. Are you one of the few that can guess all of them correctly?

Carly Wallace
Created by Carly Wallace
On Aug 5, 2023
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Could you hold your own in a spelling bee? How many unusual, strange words do you know? This quiz has 10 hard-to-define words, in fact only 17% of college graduates can successfully define them! Let's see if you could be a word professional!

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Petrichor

2 / 10

Susurrus

3 / 10

Snollygoster

4 / 10

Limerence

5 / 10

Onomatopoeia

6 / 10

Defenestration

7 / 10

Ultracrepidarian

8 / 10

Serendipity

9 / 10

Schadenfreude

10 / 10

Paraprosdokian

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