Test Your Vocabulary

[seela]

I know there are many language enthusiasts on this forum and I thought they might appreciate this little test:

Test Your Vocabulary

My result was 25,800, a lot higher than I expected. I guess my limited knowledge of Latin and German helped.

I also copy-pasted the words I didn't know and checked them in a dictionary. Now I know a lot of cool, weird words like valetudinarian. I'll probably forget them by tomorrow, but hey, at least I remember them for today.

Interestingly, I often found it pretty difficult to come up with a translation of a certain word in my own native language, even if I knew exactly, what the English word means. It never ceases to amaze me, how limited, in some ways, my command of my native language is. It's certainly something to work on!

 

[StrayKat]

27.100
English is my second language too.

 

[Lizzie_Borden]

26,200

A bit lower than I would like, but then, I do also know a lot of technical and trade/job specific words/jargon etc

Funny this has come up, when I've been studying the communication chapter in my textbook

 

[StrayKat]

I guess my limited knowledge of Latin and German helped.

I do know some German and I studied Latin for a year. Besides I come from the part of Croatia that was Italian province for centuries so we have Italian/Latin origin dialect. My Mother is a French professor, I had to read Russian for my piano lessons when I was much younger, and my family has a particular ideas about how much education should a true lady have.... all together makes for a mish-mash good for things like trivia quizzes.
Too bad I never found much use for all that worthless knowledge I gathered in life

 

[ecstaticsub]

22,600. I had 5 years of college plus a residency. My medical vocabulary is huge...words found in fictional literature, not so much.

 

[Vixandra]

33,400 but I read voraciously and love the written word. I'm a walking thesaurus some days. Historical reenactment and being 2/3 way through my bachelors degree helps too.

 

[seela]

Too bad I never found much use for all that worthless knowledge I gathered in life

I've noticed the same thing. My head collects random facts in the expense of a lot of useful knowledge, but I rarely get to use it. Maybe I could make a career out of TV's quiz shows?

I think my result is an excellent example of how much influence English has in the present world. I've never ever even visited an English speaking country, but apparently I've still managed to immerse myself in the language well enough to reach a native speaker's vocabulary level.

 

[mandoscot]

33,600 - I need to stop reading so much

 

[ravi64]

33,ooo

 

[DVS]

45,000 words. But it's very easy to cheat.

 

[ruby_my_dear]

28,000
French is my native language but I learned English as a child from my mother's bilingual family and all my schooling since high school has been in English. Always the overacheiver, I expected a higher score. I like Seela's idea about cutting and pasting the new words.

 

[StrayKat]

45,000 words. But it's very easy to cheat.

Its always easy to cheat. But why would you?

 

[culloden]

35,000. The last page was pretty cool - Many words there I'd never seen before. It was like looking at the OED, but with no magnifying glass required.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

40,100, and I added a few, if I can remember them by tomorrow However, I *am* old, so that's always an iffy bet.

 

[daibhal]

34,200 ... disappointed. I need to read more than I have been.

 

[DVS]

Its always easy to cheat. But why would you?

Just pointing out that it's easy. I clicked on every word to get that number. Without cheating, the number comes to 28,500.

And I wouldn't say cheating was easy, in this case. I had to click on EVERY word. That wasn't particularly easy.

 

[Sir_Winston54]

Just pointing out that it's easy. I clicked on every word to get that number. Without cheating, the number comes to 28,500.

And I wouldn't say cheating was easy, in this case. I had to click on EVERY word. That wasn't particularly easy.

Or you could have clicked on the first word in each screen, then alternated pressing the "Tab" key and spacebar. Less time-consuming and finger-wearying than click-move-click-move-click-move ad infinitum.

 

[DVS]

Or you could have clicked on the first word in each screen, then alternated pressing the "Tab" key and spacebar. Less time-consuming and finger-wearying than click-move-click-move-click-move ad infinitum.

Well shit. I guess I'm not a tabby. I'm a mouser.

 

[StrayKat]

Well shit. I guess I'm not a tabby. I'm a mouser.

In a gamers world we call that a clicker and generally frown upon.

 

[DVS]

In a gamers world we call that a clicker and generally frown upon.

I have cats and a mouser is a good thing. If not a mouser, they're just a watcher.

 

[StrayKat]

I have cats and a mouser is a good thing. If not a mouser, they're just a watcher.

My cat does that too, chases my mouse all over the screen. When she gets tired she just falls asleep all over my right hand.
So I had to learn to use my left hand

 

[ownedsubgal]

32,400....definitely lower than i expected, given the fact that i studied a few years of latin and the quantity of novels i motor through. but i tried to be as accurate as possible...many of the words seemed very familiar, but if a definition didn't immediately spring to mind i did not click on it. still, clearly i have work to do.

 

[seela]

You guys have had really high numbers! I guess this confirms that the Lit part really holds true here.

I also recognized more words than I clicked, but I selected only those that I was 100% sure about. Later, when I checked the words in a dictionary I was a bit disappointed, because on quite a few occasions my hunch had been correct, but I hadn't selected the word.

 

[IrisAlthea]

24,400
Not my first language.

 

[DVS]

You guys have had really high numbers! I guess this confirms that the Lit part really holds true here.

I also recognized more words than I clicked, but I selected only those that I was 100% sure about. Later, when I checked the words in a dictionary I was a bit disappointed, because on quite a few occasions my hunch had been correct, but I hadn't selected the word.

Go back and do the test again. I didn't click on a few, because I didn't think they were spelled correctly. Once I found out they were, I went back and clicked on them, and raised my score a little bit. Every little bit helps.

That's not cheating is it?