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 07/15/2013 07:04:32 PM · #26
One thing that occurred to me is that the test probably underreports significantly for those educated in engineering and/or the sciences. Pretty much none of the focus is on technical language, and most of us rely on literally thousands of terms that, for instance, don't come up as "words" on a spell check!
 07/15/2013 07:09:27 PM · #27
my score

These I did not know:

sedulous
cantle
uxoricide

forgot the others.

Message edited by author 2013-07-15 19:18:10.
 07/15/2013 07:26:03 PM · #28
Originally posted by Alexkc:
I'd really want to try something similar in Italian...


Me too!
 07/15/2013 07:43:53 PM · #29
Originally posted by CEJ:

I did not know:

uxoricide

forgot the others.


Anybody who has studied Latin would know what uxoricide is.
 07/15/2013 07:54:46 PM · #30
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 07/15/2013 08:11:27 PM · #31
Originally posted by Pug-H:
Anybody who has studied Latin would know what uxoricide is.

I know a lot of Latin (and Greek) roots, but not uxor ... what are you killing?
 07/15/2013 08:36:28 PM · #32
Originally posted by JH:
27,700 - I was hard on myself and left out words where I wasn't sure of the exact definition.


Yes, this test doesn't account for people who THINK they know what a word means.
 07/15/2013 08:37:29 PM · #33
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Originally posted by Pug-H:
Anybody who has studied Latin would know what uxoricide is.

I know a lot of Latin (and Greek) roots, but not uxor ... what are you killing?


One's wife.
 07/15/2013 08:52:59 PM · #34
there were some wowsers in that test.
I wrote down some of the ones I didn't know and googled them:

sparge - a process used in brewing beer
adumbrate - Report or represent in outline
tenebrous - .Dark; shadowy or obscure
vibrissae - (e.g.) the whiskers of a cat
estivation - Zoology: A state of dormancy or torpor during the summer
oh yes, and the ever popular
uxoricide ( I thought it had to do with over-indulgence, but the 'cide' didn't fit - I mean, how many wives should you kill before feeling over indulged!)

There was one I must have misspelled because I couldn't find "cenaele" via Google.
 07/15/2013 08:56:53 PM · #35
30,700

The last column was... yikes.
 07/15/2013 09:00:12 PM · #36
Originally posted by Pug-H:
Originally posted by CEJ:

I did not know:

uxoricide

forgot the others.


Anybody who has studied Latin would know what uxoricide is.


Hmpf! It asked if you knew the meaning, not if you 'thought' you knew the meaning. I am 55 and apparently going down fast. Sorry. It has been a loooong time since I studied or did anything in Latin.

Message edited by author 2013-07-15 21:07:16.
 07/15/2013 09:07:12 PM · #37
Well, right now, if we were awarding ribbons,
CEJ would get the BLUE with 41,900
Bear_Music would have a RED @ 40,700
and (ahem) sfalice would be adorned with the YELLOW! @ 38,500

Keep those scores coming.
 07/15/2013 09:08:35 PM · #38
Wish that was the same for the current challenge I am participating in.

Message edited by author 2013-07-15 21:08:52.
 07/15/2013 09:35:55 PM · #39
Originally posted by posthumous:
Originally posted by JH:
27,700 - I was hard on myself and left out words where I wasn't sure of the exact definition.


Yes, this test doesn't account for people who THINK they know what a word means.


Yeah... I was pretty hard on myself. If I wasn't completely sure, and just thought I knew, I googled it to make sure I was right. Kept most of my points along the way -- remove the check mark on two words, though.
 07/15/2013 09:42:05 PM · #40
Did you know they use different words, though, if you take it again.? (mostly the same, but not all the same)

I thought it wasn't quite fair, because my daughter's word list was a tad easier, so I took it again, not checking any words I had looked up in the meantime. Score went up by 1,000, then down by 700. So just a few words different -- but there are a few. :)
 07/15/2013 09:56:46 PM · #41
Originally posted by vawendy:
Did you know they use different words, though, if you take it again.? (mostly the same, but not all the same)

I thought it wasn't quite fair, because my daughter's word list was a tad easier, so I took it again, not checking any words I had looked up in the meantime. Score went up by 1,000, then down by 700. So just a few words different -- but there are a few. :)


Okay, so I did this once. Are you saying that if I did it again it would or could possibly score me differently?
 07/15/2013 09:56:50 PM · #42
Originally posted by vawendy:
Did you know they use different words, though, if you take it again.? (mostly the same, but not all the same)

I thought it wasn't quite fair, because my daughter's word list was a tad easier, so I took it again, not checking any words I had looked up in the meantime. Score went up by 1,000, then down by 700. So just a few words different -- but there are a few. :)


Okay, so I did this once. Are you saying that if I did it again it would or could possibly score me differently?

EDIT: Which I just did and yes, the words were different, but it seems in my favor:

scored higher

But two of the same words came up (along with many others, obviously) that I did not know. Meaning two words that I did not know the first time came up the second time and I marked them as not known. Cantle or whatever it was did not show up this second time.

Message edited by author 2013-07-15 22:10:51.
 07/15/2013 09:58:18 PM · #43
33,500
I wonder what my father would have scored. He was an English and English literature lecturer and head of his faculty at retirement. Then he spent time writing. Needless to say he always beat me at Scrabble.
07/16/2013 11:19:51 AM · #44
Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be:
39,500 words.

English is my second language, and my age is detrimental to health and brain power. LOL! Okay, but I have been teaching English since 2001 in Korea. In fact, my English, as well as my Afrikaans, Dutch, Zulu and Belgian took a knock; use it or lose it!

Message edited by author 2013-07-16 11:22:35.
 07/16/2013 11:43:52 AM · #45
Second go-round gave me 43,100... I googled some of the words I *thought* I knew, after checking 'em off, and had to eliminate a couple on that basis, so that's about as honest as I can do it... I'm sort of skeptical of this whole thing, but it's fun.
 07/16/2013 12:00:07 PM · #46
I must be dumb 22k. I don't read. I don't write. I am surprised I even have that many words.
 07/16/2013 12:00:26 PM · #47
38,100 at this end
 07/16/2013 12:57:41 PM · #48
Originally posted by DustDevil:
I must be dumb 22k. I don't read. I don't write. I am surprised I even have that many words.

It's not that bad...

Originally posted by Test Site:
Now, remember that these percentiles are not for the population as a whole, but rather just those who have taken the test online. Comparing with self-reported SAT scores from previous analysis, overall participation is in roughly the 98th percentile of the American population as a whole ΓΆ€” it is apparently a very "elite" group of people who spend their time taking vocabulary tests on the Internet!

So, measured against this "elite" you're doing very nicely, and you're eclipsing the "rest" of the population ;-0

Message edited by author 2013-07-16 12:59:13.
 07/16/2013 01:08:27 PM · #49
results

Second go, almost exactly the same response, one or two more I gave myself credit for.

Oddly, "Sparge" was on there, a beer brewing term, at least as one definition.
07/16/2013 03:28:47 PM · #50
Originally posted by blindjustice:
Oddly, "Sparge" was on there, a beer brewing term, at least as one definition.


The beer-brewing definition was actually a surprise to me. It's the only definition that doesn't involve the bubbling of a gas through a liquid. I was familiar with the term because it is commonly used in plating processes, with which I am (almost too) intimately familiar. There, "sparging" refers to bubbling gas up through a plating bath to keep the liquid moving.
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