Test your vocab

[xXAll-ProXx]

Originally Posted by Arch0wl

13,600 is extremely high for a non-native speaker.

http://testyourvocab.com/blog/2011-0...chartNonnative

I'm a non-native speaker and I started learning English about 3 years ago.

Does this mean knowing 14,200 is pretty high for me? cause I saw everyone else's scores and felt embarrassed to post mine lol O.o

[Reach]

Originally Posted by devonin

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

No, you don't. I wasn't necessarily questioning you, just pointing out the fact that it is of course the onus of the test taker to be honest.

My girlfriend reads way more than me, but has a smaller vocabulary. I suppose reading a lot only helps if you actually look up the words you don't know. You'd be surprised how many people don't.


You seem to have an inflated view of other peoples vocabulary though, lol.

The first word most people don't know is indigent. Most people get this wrong. More than 50%. Parallelogram and ladle are also commonly missed from section one ('It's a shape' is not a sufficient answer.)

Mercantile, gaff, derrick, and entomologist are usually missed from section 3.

Most people completely botch from here out. The problem being, simply recognizing the word doesn't cut it. You don't get any points for calling an entomologist a scientist, or derrick a name, or a gaff a social blunder. Those are really common mistakes though. This test can be administered with associated pictures to choose from, and for example, the entomologist question would have a picture of 4 scientists doing different things.

[devonin]

Haha, Derrick is a name? Derek is certainly. Also, it's gaffe for a blunder yes?

[Reincarnate]

I used to confuse "indigent" with "indignant" for some reason

EDIT: Yeah Dev. I had defined "gaff" as that long pole/hook thing and "derrick" in the same way you'd define, say, an oil derrick (station you'd put over a well to drill and shit, like in Armageddon)

[devonin]

I'd think more people would make an Indigent/Indigenous connection than confuse it for indignant.

[~kitty~]

I'm learning new words.

[Reach]

Originally Posted by devonin

Haha, Derrick is a name? Derek is certainly. Also, it's gaffe for a blunder yes?

Yeah...actually, here I can list the most common mistakes I tended to see (keeping in mind that I obviously indicate that they need to elaborate if vague).

Ladle: laying down or laid out
Parallelogram: a shape!
cascade: all in one washing detergent
indigent: most people have no clue
poultry: food, or some sort of meat
octagon: a lot of people say 6 sided shape.
derrick: male name
monetary: boring and repetitive
entomologist: some sorta scientist
gaff: social blunder
coniferous: some sort of bush or tree or grass
wildebeest: some sort of animal. something in africa.
reposing: rearranging or posing in another way
convex: many define concave
cupola: some sort of cup or tupperware
embossed: enslaved or being pushed around
perambulating: traveling in an ambulance
arable: dry
tonsorial: relating to the tonsils
nidification: knitting something
vitreous: pretty much everyone defines virtuous or vitriol

[ninjaKIWI]

Originally Posted by Reach

octagon: a lot of people say 6 sided shape.
cupola: some sort of cup or tupperware
embossed: enslaved or being pushed around
perambulating: traveling in an ambulance
nidification: knitting something

You can't be serious hahaha.

[Reach]

Originally Posted by ninjaKIWI

You can't be serious hahaha.

Dead serious. In all fairness, they're hard words, and there's no penalty for guessing so it's encouraged.

But uh, yeah: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYjjynROFuI&t=0m57s

XD

[Reincarnate]

Originally Posted by Reach

coniferous: some sort of bush or tree or grass
embossed: enslaved or being pushed around
perambulating: traveling in an ambulance
nidification: knitting something

omg I burst out laughing

[devonin]

Post that shit in you laugh you lose.

[~kitty~]

Isn't embossed meaning pretty much a design embedded into something else or something of that sort? A pattern? Or am I thinking of something else?

[Reincarnate]

Originally Posted by Reach

Dead serious. In all fairness, they're hard words, and there's no penalty for guessing so it's encouraged.

But uh, yeah: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYjjynROFuI&t=0m57s

XD

I can't watch this -- I had to skip around a few times in hopes that I'd land on something less absurd. Noopppeee.

Oh god this is awful

[Reincarnate]

I'D SAY ABOUT TEEENNNnn

[Mans0n]

Originally Posted by who_cares973

i also call bs on some of the scores in this thread

Definitely ^^

Also how did i score higher than you? rofl

[xXAll-ProXx]

Originally Posted by Reincarnate

I can't watch this -- I had to skip around a few times in hopes that I'd land on something less absurd. Noopppeee.

Oh god this is awful

Did they honestly think Iran was where Australia was, I actually have a hard time believing people can be this stupid.

[devonin]

They almost certainly asked about 100 people for every 1 moron they featured eight times in the video

[Reincarnate]

Down in Texas, you'd be surprised. When I was there for half a year, I couldn't believe how many lunatics I came into contact with.

[~kitty~]

Honestly, the guy who didn't know about KFC was probably a bit more justified than the others in my opinion. Sometimes titles can be misleading. However, I'm certain that those people don't reflect the general population.

EDIT: Of America.

[who_cares973]

what did i just watch