Test your vocab

[Artic_counter]

Sobriquet is a nickname and having embonpoint is basically being fat.

These are French words, so I know xD

[Reincarnate]

Listen to how it's pronounced

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/embonpoint

I don't think I could use that in real life without being thought of as a totally arrogant prick. Latin/Architect-speak is bad enough:

ERGO
CONCORDANTLY
VIS A VIS
APROPOS
;-;

EDIT: Does anyone use stuff like ad infinitum (more well known) or ne plus ultra (less well known)?

[Reach]

Originally Posted by Reincarnate

osculation = kissing! I actually know this one from one of my old math classes because there is a concept in vector calc known as the osculating plane

nidification = building a nest

tonsorial = no idea

It's a pretty short test; it's used more on kids but is nice and quick for adults.

The list is: (The test ends if the participant does poorly enough in a particular section. Most people get to 3 or 4. Some to 5, and most bomb it).

syringe, transparent, ladle, replenishing, abrasive, parallelogram, cascade, lever, detonation, pillar, cultivating, aquatic / End section 1.

Indigent, oasis, disappointed, perpendicular, poultry, confiding, periodical, filtration, primate, spherical, talon, octagon / End section 2

Incandescent, pilfering, trajectory, mercantile, derrick, ascending, monetary, entomologist, gaff, quintet, nautical, incarcerating / End section 3

Coniferous, wildebeest, caster, reposing, convex, gourmand, dromedary, diverging, incertitude, quiescent, honing, cupola / End section 4

Embossed, perambulating, arable, importunity, cenotaph, tonsorial, nidification, terpsichorean, cairn, osculation, vitreous, lugubrious / End section 5

Thaumaturgical, glaucous, abyssopelagic, nomological, autoschediastical, homeoteleuton, tergiversatory, pelasgian, tintinnabulation, anagogical, sacerdotalism, piscatorialism / End Reach's bonus section of doom


edit: I've used ne plus ultra online. Here, in critical thinking.

Never in real life though.

[Reincarnate]

Heh tintinnabulation was used in an old Edgar Allen Poe poem iirc (the Bells -- really annoying)

[~kitty~]

Originally Posted by Reach

Freerice: http://freerice.com/

Is freerice legit?

[devonin]

Originally Posted by Reach

It's a pretty short test; it's used more on kids but is nice and quick for adults.

The list is: (The test ends if the participant does poorly enough in a particular section. Most people get to 3 or 4. Some to 5, and most bomb it).

syringe, transparent, ladle, replenishing, abrasive, parallelogram, cascade, lever, detonation, pillar, cultivating, aquatic / End section 1.

Indigent, oasis, disappointed, perpendicular, poultry, confiding, periodical, filtration, primate, spherical, talon, octagon / End section 2

Incandescent, pilfering, trajectory, mercantile, derrick, ascending, monetary, entomologist, gaff, quintet, nautical, incarcerating / End section 3

Coniferous, wildebeest, caster, reposing, convex, gourmand, dromedary, diverging, incertitude, quiescent, honing, cupola / End section 4

Embossed, perambulating, arable, importunity, cenotaph, tonsorial, nidification, terpsichorean, cairn, osculation, vitreous, lugubrious / End section 5

Thaumaturgical, glaucous, abyssopelagic, nomological, autoschediastical, homeoteleuton, tergiversatory, pelasgian, tintinnabulation, anagogical, sacerdotalism, piscatorialism / End Reach's bonus section of doom


edit: I've used ne plus ultra online. Here, in critical thinking.

Never in real life though.

I got all of 1-4, 7/12 in 5, and 3/12 of your bonus words.

[ninjaKIWI]

Originally Posted by reach

freerice: http://freerice.com/

SOMATIC = BODILY YES thank you D&D

EDIT: A lot of these are wrong and/or stupid.

[smartdude1212]

Crepuscular: the series Stephenie Meyer wishes she had written.

[Reach]

Originally Posted by devonin

I got all of 1-4, 7/12 in 5, and 3/12 of your bonus words.

An exceptionally high score, if honest.

A 7/12 is enough to pass a section. I've only ever tested a couple of people that have done it.

Is freerice legit?

I have no idea.

The vocabulary is good, though.

[devonin]

Originally Posted by Reach

An exceptionally high score, if honest.

A 7/12 is enough to pass a section. I've only ever tested a couple of people that have done it.

Do I seem like the type to lie about that? The vocabulary comes from being a lifelong and very prolific reader. I read 72 novels last year, 33,451 pages. So far this year I'm at 36 novels and about 20,000 pages. Add in a degree in history and philosophy, and I have some pretty esoteric vocabulary.

edit: Incertitude is the first word in your entire list that it even occurs to me that "most" people wouldn't know and it's in category 4

Double edit: Had my girlfriend do the same thing. 12/12, 11/12, 11/12, 9/12, 3/12

[Eeumi]

17600

[Mans0n]

Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be:
17,000
words

meh thats pretty bad imo

[XxMidigamixX]

Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be:
26,100
words

[flashpantss]

16,500 Words. pretty low IMO.

[Spenner]

[Mans0n]

I'd say mine isn't bad for being a sophomore in high school.

[darkshark]

This is actually one of my favorite sites to just zone out on when I'm bored.

http://phrontistery.info/a.html

[JuggaloShows]

Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be:
37,900


FUUUCCCKKK
thats surely not enough
how am i ever going to become an english teacher??
lulz

[icontrolyourworld]

I didn't check any boxes or answer anything on the 3rd part

[darkshark]

People I've never considered to be even mid-level thinkers are getting unusually high scores on this.

Not like anything is stopping you guys from checking nearly all the boxes and all.