Test your vocab

[smartdude1212]

Originally Posted by Reach

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.

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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

[darkshark]

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~]

Originally Posted by darkshark

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]

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]

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]

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

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

[kjwkjw]

Originally Posted by leonid

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~]

Originally Posted by leonid

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]

Originally Posted by leonid

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/2011-0...chartNonnative

[Reincarnate]

Originally Posted by smartdude1212

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."

Albeit a really simple example, the first time I was amazed by roots was when I learned that "cis," to cut, is why the word "scissors" is the way it is.

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 actually did pretty well on this. 100% up until section 5, where I get 10/12 (didn't know tonsorial or cairn), and for the bonus section I get 8/12 (haven't ever seen/known homeoteleuton, pelasgian, sacerdotalism, or piscatorialism)

[euphoriakisses]

Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be:
30,200
words

[ninjaKIWI]

I got 29,300! I was worried I'd score far lower.

[LJRoX]

I only got 30k because I knew what all the words were in the first page but I didn't know a lot of the 5th (or was it 6th column) words in the 2nd one lol

[Breakdown16]

22400.

This is considered average for my age rank, which really depresses me. I actually would have scored much higher in eighth grade, when I read most voraciously. Maybe even seventh grade. I even read plenty of classics. However, my reading frequency dropped off a lot since then, so my vocabulary probably has decreased a lot since then for that reason.

[Hakulyte]

8,860 words. Makes sense to me as I am constantly using the same limited range of words. I got 40,000 by checking everything that sounded remotely familiar with prefix/suffixe/root/french/latin knowledge etc. , but with definition, not even close.

[Reach]

Originally Posted by smartdude1212

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.



lol FFR

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

I'm particularly bad with obscure short words. There's nothing distinguishing about them, and when combined with the fact I never get to use them, I forget them.

But no, I've never taken any Latin. Any Latin I do know is self taught, so it's spotty at best. I could definitely improve my vocabulary beyond where it is now by learning it, but...I don't really have time. I instinctively assumed (incorrectly) that bibulous was relating to books. Now I know better, but lol.


Also, quomodocunquize? I've never seen that one before. Thanks ;D

homeoteleuton, pelasgian, sacerdotalism, or piscatorialism

Yeah, those ones are there just to prevent people from getting them all

I'm not surprised you would do that well though, given your TRI52 score and the power of g. I've never tested anyone that has only gotten 2 wrong, but then again I've probably never tested someone at the 99.999th percentile either. Personally, when I took the test formally I missed: caster (god damn), importunity, tonsorial (Figured it was related to the tonsils, haha) and vitreous (I defined vitriol, though, this is insanely common D: ).



The others words from my bonus section would be words that logophiles would be likely to pick up from word lists or obscure reading materials, other than nomological. Anagogical is just hard to define, glaucous is easy to confuse.

Well, and abyssopelagic isn't that hard to define vaguely.

[Reincarnate]

vitreous I never use but I know of it from "vitreous humor" (a part of the eye) where I had looked the word up before.

And yeah I too thought "tonsorial" had to do with tonsils but when you get into words like these, intuition tends to fail haha

[Reincarnate]

Poor kid's clearly autistic

[who_cares973]

15,400 words. i should probably increase my vocab some

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