Challenge Words

Most math and science challenges on this site have a two word title, and the first word is a special word. Some have two special words, others, none. This is a list of all the fancy words, in reverse chronological order.

2021

March

  • Macrocephalous

February

No fancy words this month.

January

  • Interlinear

2020

December

  • Garbled

November

  • Scrupulist

November

  • Scrupulist

October

No fancy words this month.

September

No fancy words this month.

August

No fancy words this month.

July

No fancy words this month.

June

  • Preposterous

May

No fancy words this month.

April

No fancy words this month.

March

  • Galvanizing

February

  • Seriocomic

January

  • Radical

2019

December

  • Esoteric
  • Curious

November

  • Salamandriform
  • Centrifugal
  • Recondite

October

  • Loopy
  • Scintillating
  • Sophisticated

September

  • Gangbuster
  • Didactic
  • Ubiquitous
  • Peculiar

August

  • Exquisite
  • Confounding
  • Strange
  • Perplexing
  • Vile

July

  • Fathomless
  • Baffling
  • Recursive
  • Machiavellian

June

  • Puzzling
  • Capture
  • Devising

May

  • Absurd

April

  • Captivating

March

  • Captivating

February

No fancy words this month.

January

No fancy words this month.