Test your vocabulary

[7wo7rees]

www.testyourvocab.com

I'm in the 70th percentile with 31,000 words in my arsenal.

How'd you do? (Doesn't take long.)

[Pool Hall Ace]

1. I guess I'm a dum-dum

I'm only in the 45th percentile with 26,400 words. :dunce:

[kentauros]

38. I'm not much better at just below the exact median: 27,100

A big vocabulary is one thing. How you use your vocabulary is an entirely different thing.

As an aspiring writer, I dare say that most of the "big words" they had that I even knew I would also never use in storytelling. The last thing you want to do is turn off your readers with too many unfamiliar words.

[petronius]

2. Most of the words I know aren't really words, I just make them up as I go along

People seem to get my meaning... :shrug:

[Brother Buzz]

3. Ho-hum

50% 27,200

[nuxvomica]

27. I only got 29,200

I think you score in the 99th percentile for honesty. ;-)

[Brother Buzz]

31. I took the test a second time and forgot over a thousand words overnight

Honestly, I chose only words I owned, not words I recognized, and apparently someone burgled my brain last night.

[nuxvomica]

32. Then I won't take the test again

I can't afford to lose any more words. ;-)

I agree that you should own a word to count it in your vocabulary. I have yet to make the final payments on even a few common words like "sarcasm" or "ambivalence". Here's a poem for you regarding that burglary:

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/forgetfulness/

[panader0]

4. 30,200

I thought I'd do better than that.
I know a lot of slang though.......

[7wo7rees]

5. Fo shizzle, my nizzle

Those count too. Not on the test tho.

[XemaSab]

6. Somewhere south of the 90th percentile

:shrug:

[sakabatou]

7. 39,100 words

[7wo7rees]

9. Woo-Hoo!

I wait for your next post, exultant one!

[sakabatou]

13. *shrugs*

Just because I know words doesn't mean diddly squat.

[trackfan]

8. 36,600

I really went downhill on the last column.

[7wo7rees]

10. That last column was weighted for difficulty. Don't feel bad. It was a minefield.

[MilesColtrane]

11. It estimated 33,800 words, putting me just above the 80th percentile.

I found the test revealed just how much I depend on context in understanding words I only kind of know.

[7wo7rees]

12. Good point.

I found myself wanting to say I know what that COULD mean. I'm just not sure without reading it somewhere.

[quakerboy]

50. My first run through, 33,800

I just chose words that I was 100 % sure I knew, getting through it in a hurry, cause I thought it would be longer.

I went back through and checked the words that I thought I might know, adding the ones I had right, and it brought me up to 35,300.

Saw about 3 words Im pretty sure Ive never seen before. The rest, I recognized, but could not nail down. Sparge. Absolutely new to me. Deracinate. Im pretty sure Ive run across it before, but it was not one I could recall a meaning for.

Apparently spending HS reading Sci-Fi/fantasy and ignoring my teachers was useful for something after all. Take that all you people who thought I would never amount to anything. approx 90'th percentile. Not as good as my SAT or ACT, but respectable none the less.

[murielm99]

14. 35,700,

between the 85th and 90th percentiles.

That last column was difficult.

[Petrushka]

15. 36,800 --- somewhere between 90th & 95th percentile

:kick:

[7wo7rees]

16. Y'all some smart mugs

Thanks for taking the test with me.

I knew I was the smart one from those I hang with, but I knew I would be impressed with *your* scores!

I love it here.

[Petrushka]

20. When I was in the sixth grade at a two-room school in West Virginia, our class was given an IQ test.

The three children who scored above 100 were called "cheaters"; and,
of course, everyone laughed but me when the school's principle saved
my score to announce last. I must have really, really cheated because,
according to the principle, my score meant that, instead of being in the
6th grade at his school, I should have been a sophomore in . . . college?!

:blush:



P.S.
It's good to know you "...love it here." I do too, most of the time. But
please don't be impressed with vocabulary scores. Some of us might be
known to spend our free time---during lunch breaks, for instance---reading
the dictionary.

:shrug:

[Petrushka]

21. Did you notice a word twice spelled incorrectly in my previous post?

I did . . . too late to edit!!!1!

:spank:

[suninvited]

22. I remember being in school and learning

a little trick to remember principle/principal. The principal is my PAL. It has helped me out before.

[Petrushka]

33. --- self-delete --- (duplicate)

[Petrushka]

34. You were fortunate!

Although our grade-school principal wasn't a pal to any of us (*uh*) me-wop-too white trash honky dummkopfs---as he often called us---I'll certainly remember the principle/principal trick you learned in your school. Perhaps he was frustrated with being known as the principal of our school when he was actually just one of the two overworked teachers in a two-room schoolhouse where 99.99% of the students were the first and second generation offspring of immigrant coal-miners and/or steelworkers.

Thank you for sharing!


:hi:

[Pool Hall Ace]

24. Teehee -- I noticed right away!

I feel a little less like a :dunce: now. :woohoo:

[Petrushka]

35. Thank you for the giggle!

:hug:

[mzteris]

30. I learned to spell so well to avoid the dictionary...

once I opened it, hours might pass before I got back to what I was supposed to be doing!! :rofl:

[Petrushka]

37. Does that mean you, too, are addicted to the 2-volume compact version of the OED?

:hi:

[kentauros]

39. Even though my vocabulary is "low" compared to y'all,

this is what I'd rather read than the dictionary: http://www.etymonline.com :hi:

[Petrushka]

41. I've had occasion to use that etymology dictionary when I'm online . . . but . . .

sometimes it piques my curiosity just enough to get me up
off my behind and, backing away from this computer monitor,
I'll end up doing further (seemingly endless) research in that
olde OED of mine.

Anyway . . .

Here's the link to another online dictionary I sometimes find
useful: http://thesaurus.com/?regHome=true


:hi:

[kentauros]

42. That whole "family" of reference pages is a nice source :)

In doing research for my writing, I've come across some interesting dictionaries and reference pages. Such as:

Behind the Name - the etymology and history of surnames
The Dialect Dictionary
A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary
Jennifer's Language Page (mostly greetings)

Oh, and a truly practical page where you can improve your vocabulary and donate rice to the hungry: Free Rice (yes, it's legitimate, per Snopes) :D

[Petrushka]

43. Bookmarked the links. Thank you!

That "Free Rice" website can quickly become a time-killer
if I don't watch out.

[kentauros]

46. Yeah, definitely a big time-waster

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Although I can't get very far into the art history portion, despite 12 college-hours of art history :P

[VenusRising]

17. 32, 600.

Not bad.

Thanks for sharing!

:hi:

[zen_bohemian]

18. 23,600 ....I didnt know them thar smart words

:)

[woo me with science]

19. Problem is that it's self-report.

I bet a lot of people check words they have seen before but really can't define.

[Raffi Ella]

23. That was fun!

Mine was 29,600. I thought I would do better b/c I read a lot. I even looked up words I thought I might have an idea what they meant but ended up I didn't on a lot of them. oh well! Learned some new words. B-)

[Richardo]

25. 34,700 (between 85th and 90th percentle)

[sorcrow]

26. Hmmm....

I got 37,700. I suspect mine is more if you include if you include the argot from the trades I've plied.
Crow

[rug]

28. This test is sparged with unusual words not known outside the clerisy causing an unnecessary pother.

[mzteris]

29. 37,800

Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be:
37,800
words

[GoneOffShore]

36. 40,600 words - but I'm geeky and old

[CaptRandom]

40. Wow....Im depressed now...:)

I must have killed off waaaaay too many braincells since Highschool and had my ACT vocab percentile...

[kimi]

44. 35,300

Meh. Not like I use them thar word thingamabobs in mah every day con-ver-say-shun n stuff n junk.

[TygrBright]

45. 41,300 words. Should I be embarrassed?

I have pretensions to authorship someday...

diffidently,
Bright

[Twinguard]

47. 33k words

I'm "37 words" from the 80th percentile.

I did much better than I anticipated. I guess I have to thank all of my English teachers/professors over the years. As much as I hated my 8th grade English teacher for being brutally harsh with her grading, over the past decades I've noticed how her lessons have come in handy (except for, maybe, the sentence diagramming. What a bore... I still remember those late nights trying to figure out what the hell I was doing and then being given a zero because I left one freaking sentence blank because I didn't think about "implied "you"" (if you are still reading this, the sentence was "Just do it." and I still remember getting a zero because I couldn't figure out where the f*&^ the noun was in that sentence over TWO DECADES ago!!)). I had some pretty awesome English teachers in high school. One passed away about ten years ago, and one I still keep in contact with. Other than my music teachers, my English teachers always seemed to be my favorite (love or hate) and the ones I respected the most because they are the ones who made me earn my grades.

Ok, rant over... Hooray!!! I (for all intents and purposes) made the 80th percentile with my vocabulary!!! Hooray for the public school system! :)

[MilesColtrane]

48. The only drawback of that test is that it is possible to cheat.

A more accurate version would force the subject to pick the correct definition of a word that he claims he knows from multiple choices.

As Dr. House says, "Everybody lies."

[quakerboy]

51. With the powers of

Dictionary.com, It turns out I have an estimated vocabulary of 45,000 words.

Or, in other words, if you want it to be more accurate and less based on self reporting, not only must it be multiple choice, but timed.

[MilesColtrane]

52. Scored 76,642 known words on this test.

http://www.plenilune.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/vocabulary.asp

Obviously these tests are for amusement purposes only.

[Petrushka]

53. The freerice.com site provides for multiple-choice but doesn't measure vocabulary as such.

Nonetheless, it's all good.

http://freerice.com/

[Odin2005]

49. 33,200 words, 80th precentile

That last column made me go "WTF?" :rofl:

[pokerfan]

54. 35,400 (nt)

[RushIsRot]

55. 34,100

[6000eliot]

56. 37,400

But I have a Ph.D in English. I probably should have done better!

[hobbit709]

57. 42,200

[Tuesday Afternoon]

58. 36,600

[MorningGlow]

59. 37,500, between the 90th and 95th percentile

I'm surprised I did that well--there were enough words that made me go "hah wha?", especially on the last screen. Guess I've got the right job then (writer and editor) but it's good to know I still have a lot to learn.

Now...can anybody get a freeper to take this test? I wanna see THOSE results yup yup yup. :evilgrin:

[TZ]

60. 36,200

I read a lot. That increases my vocabulary. Oh and my mother used to teach English:)

[Brickbat]

61. 38,000. But then, I read the dictionary for fun.

[Rochester]

62. 27,800