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Are words like pulchritudinous and clinomania your specialty? Test your word savvy as you flaunt your language skills with these questions. To check your answers, tap or click on each card.

What is the shortest complete sentence in the English language?

I am.

What does pulchritudinous mean?

Beautiful

What is the only word in the English language that ends in mt?

Dreamt (and its derivatives)

What does defenestration mean?

The act of throwing someone or something out of a window

What is the term for a word that reads the same backward and forward?

Palindrome

What does clinomania mean?

An excessive desire to stay in bed

What is the only word with 3 double letters in a row?

Bookkeeper or bookkeeping

What is the only letter that doesn’t appear in any U.S. state name?

What is the dot over the lowercase i and j called?

A tittle

What is hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia?

A fear of long words

What is the most commonly used letter in the English alphabet?

There are only two words that end in gry. Name one of them.

Angry or hungry

What do you call a sentence that has every letter of the alphabet at least once?

A pangram

What word is pronounced the same, even after you remove four of its five letters?

Queue

Name the sport that is an anagram of the word loveably?

Volleyball

What do you call a word formed by merging two different words’ sounds and meanings (i.e brunch)?

A portmanteau