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Lexicological Grandiloquence

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Introduction:
"I love Big Words. REALLY Big Words! And sentences so tortuous the Mission Impossible team would get stuck in them. Never mind the answers - good luck just understanding the questions!"


1. The contrivance of tubular construction whose design is to expedite the perambulations of, inter alia, the infirm aged bears which proprietary designation?
    Scaffolding
    Ballpoint pen
    Zimmer frame
    Fountain pen


2. Upon receiving intelligence of the advent of his antagonist's flotilla, which cynosure purportedly remarked that leisure both to conclude the terrestrial encounter upon which he was presently engaged and to prevail in its imminent pelagic equivalent was ample?
    Harpo Marx
    Horatio Nelson
    Groucho Marx
    Sir Francis Drake


3. Following what dictate did the capon traverse the vehicular thoroughfare?
    An order from his superior officer
    An innate desire to attain its opposite margin
    A written demand from the party leader
    An innate desire to avoid becoming an object of marine predation


4. Having appended a codicil prefaced by the appropriate brace of characters to an autographed missive in which I had apprehended an omission, what appellative would denote a further addendum consequent upon my discovery of an additional lacuna?
    Answer: (three letters, lower case)


5. Sequentially enumerate the digits of an anthropoid's brachial appendages.
    First, second, third and fourth
    One two three four five six seven eight nine ten
    Two brachiosaurs
    One two three four


6. Nomenclate the loftiest terrene eminence.
    A Roman Catholic cardinal
    A sequoia tree
    The Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow
    Mount Everest


7. The designation of which inebriant is homonymous with that of a contrivance for circumvolving helically grooved pins?
    Cocktail
    Screwdriver
    Vodka
    Scythe


8. Monographs' dextral pagination has a singular remainder when halved.
    True
    False


9. Grant both the (suppositional) abortion of the essay referred to in the tertiary interrogatory due to the extirpation of the interrogatory's subject by an agency so patent as to render its designation supererogatory, and that the subject's expiration was not instantaneous; would the frequency of the fowl's ultimate auditory sensation have been increasing or decreasing?
    Answer: (One Word - increasing or decreasing)


10. Which of the following quizzes is most likely to cause physical harm?
    This one
    One that is so difficult that it causes severe stress, which has been shown to be a contributory factor in heart failure
    A banana peel placed on the sidewalk
    One that is printed on non-acid-free paper, leading to possible poisoning


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