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Words Pertaining to Things #4

For each word below, guess what it pertains to. Difficulty level : high.
For example, Canine = Dogs
All the answers are a SINGLE WORD
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Word
Pertains to …
Ocular
Eye
Thermal
Heat
Ferric
Iron
Gubernatorial
Governors
Porcine
Pigs
Palatial
Palaces
Masculine
Men
Annual
Year
Word
Pertains to …
Gastric
Stomach
Filial
Son / daughter
Insular
Islands
Temporal
Time
Occidental
West
Tactile
Touch
Avuncular
Uncles
Diabolical
Devil
Word
Pertains to …
Hibernal
Winter
Oral
Mouth
Pulmonary
Lungs
Geriatric
Elderly
Littoral
Shore
Fluvial
Rivers
Ducal
Duke
Ambulatory
Walking
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21 Comments
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Level 89
Apr 10, 2025
Very nice quiz, got everything expect littoral, which I really should've remembered lol
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Level 85
Apr 10, 2025
Nice quiz, surprised I knew everything
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Level ∞
Apr 10, 2025
Nice work. This one is tough!
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Level 86
Apr 11, 2025
First tried 'seaside' for littoral, which I think might be a reasonable type-in
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Level 73
Apr 11, 2025
I thought "palatial" would pertain to the palates (aka insides of the mouth) :D And for "ambulatory" I tried all kinds of things related to ambulances, hospitals, sanatoriums... :D
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Level 82
Nov 10, 2025
I tried hospital, ambulance, outpatient, emergency etc. before stumbling on the correct answer!
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Level 74
Feb 1, 2026
I thought so too about palatial, but that would be palatal.
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Level 79
Apr 12, 2025
can you accept just "walk"?
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Level 61
Jan 30, 2026
100% agree, this messed me up
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Level 68
Apr 14, 2025
This was fun! I think I'll be showing it to my Latin students tomorrow--they should know the vast majority of these!
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Level 76
May 6, 2025
The only ones I didn't get were avuncular and littoral, had never heard of them. Stared at them for 2 of the 2.5 minutes I had left, but wasn't getting anywhere so clicked give up.

Gubernatorial I also had never heard of, but that one was decipherable (ow and for ducal, I migghht have heard of it, not sure but duke was obvious)

Not all that hard in my opinion (and not a native speaker) but fun to do :)

And yea for palatial I was first thinking of palatal, so initially tried palate, taste, before realising. It was the only one where I did not put the correct answer immediately. Ferric had me thinking of feral for a (mili)second though.

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Level 85
Jun 15, 2025
I suppose the difficulty is high... for a non latin based language.
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Level 64
Jul 21, 2025
I kept trying variants of helmsmen for gubernatorial, remembering the word from letter 6.16 from Pliny Minor about pompeii
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Level 94
Jul 25, 2025
Insular was a fun addition. Spent a good minute on common usage before going a layer deeper.
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Level 86
Nov 10, 2025
Tactile is on another quiz of this series aswel
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Level 61
Nov 11, 2025
I think that "ducal" relates more to leaders from the Latin dux, ducis, which doesn't mean "Dukes", more the other way around.
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Level 80
Jan 30, 2026
In English, ducal refers specifically to things having to due with dukes. See the Oxford Learner's, Cambridge, Merriam-Webster, Collins, and Britannica dictionaries, for instance.
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Level 70
Jan 30, 2026
Weird that government wasn't accepted
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Level 80
Jan 30, 2026
Probably because it isn't an answer.
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Level 69
Jan 30, 2026
Yes, it is wierd, since this is one accepted definition: "Pertaining to a governor, or to government".
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Level 52
Jan 31, 2026
gotta say that learning Latin and speaking a romance language both help a lot in this kind of quizzes