Test your vocab

[Mans0n]

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

[darkshark]

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

http://phrontistery.info/a.html

[JuggaloShows]

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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]

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

[darkshark]

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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.

[smartdude1212]

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Anyway, from section 1: I missed vibrissae.

In section 2: I missed prig, manacle, sobriquet (wtf?), Lothario (never seen), svelte, potboiler (unexpected definition), bibulous (unexpected definition), embonpoint (wtf!?), cenacle, fuliginious (I guessed woody or smoky. I didn't count it), williwaw (I guessed commotion, though, I didn't count it either), caitiff, pule.

Reach, I'm surprised that you didn't know some of these! I knew prig (see: managers at McDonald's), sobriquet (I find it obscurely funny), svelte (because it used to bother me all the time when I'd see it in a novel and think that it was some sort of European nationality), bibulous (Latin: bibere), cenacle (Latin: cenaculum), and pule (don't know how).

That reminds me, and I don't think I've asked you this before: Have you ever taken any Latin courses? Surely it would satisfy your inner logophile. I would often sit in the lecture and flip through the textbook with an expression of astonishment on my face as I associated Latin words with their English equivalents and think "hot damn this is just awesome stuff."

I wouldn't mind learning some Greek as well -- I'm all about the etymological side of things.

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.

lol FFR

Anyway, disappointed that I didn't see words like bowdlerization or eleemosynary or quomodocunquize (this is a mouthful) in that test.

[DossarLX ODI]

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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.

This reminds me of a test I saw somewhere about personality and you could get 100% on every aspect just by checking "Always"

[darkshark]

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People like Reincarnate, Reach, devonin, Arch, etc...I expect to see 30k+ but people like hi-top, juggaloshows, DarknessXoXLight, etc...I don't quite put them on the same level as the previous group...no offense to any of you.

[~kitty~]

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

I'm at least a mid-level, and I got 14,200. Just kidding, I'm not even sure where I stand. I do generally pick things up kind of quickly compared to people I've been surrounded with, but in a way that says nothing coming from someone who's lived in South Carolina. Education here isn't the greatest thing.

[kjwkjw]

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Took the test twice. Got around 14,000 on both attempts.

English isn't my first language, sure, but my vocabulary must be shrinking... shame.

EDIT: According to these (more or less inaccurate) stats, I'm around the average (14,882) for a non-native speaker who's lived in an English-speaking country for 6 years (I've lived in the US for 6). Yay!

EDIT2: Note to self: study more hard words

[leonid]

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I've taken this test like two weeks ago
My score is 13,600... kind of enough for a software engineer to work in US

[leonid]

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My Korean vocab is better than all of you **** you all

EDIT:
Just realized I got the lowest score in this thread wahhh

[kjwkjw]

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My Korean vocab is better than all of you **** you all

rofl, I should've said this before you showed up

My Korean vocab is as bad as (if not worse than) my English vocab, etc.

[~kitty~]

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My Korean vocab is better than all of you **** you all

EDIT:
Just realized I got the lowest score in this thread wahhh

Actually, technically mine is the lowest considering English is my native language.

[Arch0wl]

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I've taken this test like two weeks ago
My score is 13,600... kind of enough for a software engineer to work in US

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

http://testyourvocab.com/blog/2011-07-25-New-results-for-foreign-learners.php#mainchartNonnative