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What is the longest English word without proper vowels?

rhythms
sphynx
trysts
spryly

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What is the term for a word found only once in a given text?

A magnum opus
A hapax legomenon
A gluteus maximus
An alma mater

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Which of the following is the longest word in the collected works of Shakespeare?

honorificabilitudinitatibus
antidisestablishmentarianism
pnemonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
Chronohotonthologos

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Which of the following words is not an autoantonym?

cleave
off
bound
set

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Which of the following phrases did not come from the King James Bible?

"Eat, drink, and be merry"
"A drop in the bucket"
"Wild goose chase"
"At my wit's end"

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Which of the following words did not first appear in Shakespeare's works?

addiction
sensation
eyeball
puking

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This is often called the shortest coherent short story: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." Who wrote it?

Jorge Luis Borges
Getrude Stein
Ernest Hemingway
Harlan Ellison

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When Hendrix says "'Scuse me while I kiss the sky", but it sounds like kiss this guy, what is this called?

The Mandela Effect
a Hackett
a mondegreen
a demiurge

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Which of the following words does not describe itself?

Pentasyllabic
Normal
Cutesy
Monosyllabic