Fancy Vocabulary Quiz #7

Do you know these fancy vocabulary words?
Definitions primarily based on Merriam-Webster, but modified to eliminate some synonyms and make them more concise.
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Something relating to the deepest layer of the ocean
Hadal
Something attracting or attempting to attract attention, usually by gaudiness and obviousness
Ostentatious
Something that has been depleted of dissolved oxygen by a bloom in aquatic plant life
Eutrophic
Something drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion
Languid
To drink or take in, particularly used for liquids
Imbibe
Something done with careful perseverance or diligence
Sedulous
Not having potentially offensive or questionable parts removed; containing all original material
Unexpurgated
To make obscure or unclear, or confuse
Obfuscate
A form of dwarfism resulting in shortened limbs due to a slow conversion of cartilage to bone
Achondroplasia
A substance acted upon by an enzyme, or the base on which an organism Iives
Substrate
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3 Comments
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Level 68
Oct 8, 2024
Good quiz. You have misspelled 'ostentatious' as 'ostenatious'.
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Level 53
Oct 8, 2024
Fixed, thanks for letting me know!
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Level 53
Oct 31, 2025
Replaced arborescent.