Test your vocabulary

[koop]

Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder

27,800.

I hope they don't plan on using this research to come to any sort of conclusion. I'm sure a lot of people will lie. I was very tempted.

Well even if someone is truthful I'm not sure this is at all accurate.

[burn_this_city]

26,700

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by koop

Well even if someone is truthful I'm not sure this is at all accurate.

I agree, honestly, if you were to sit me down with a piece of paper and write a precise one paragraph definition of each word and an example of it used in a phrase, I would do a lot worse. I checked off the words as words that were familiar to me and I had a more than good idea about their meaning along with others I guessed based on them being from other languages. I did go back and double check though and after looking up the definition, if it didn't match with what I had thought it was, I unchecked the box.

[Weiser Wonder]

Knowing the definition of a word and being able to define it through writing are two very different things. One of the funny things about language.

[peter12]

35,200, if I didn't count my guesses.

[drhu22]

Originally Posted by Dion

Interesting little test...




http://testyourvocab.com/

My results.....

Your total vocabulary size is estimated to be: 21,500 words

Why teach them anything?
Are we better off?

phooey...

I dont think so.

I think in the west our idea of intelligence is really ####ed up.

[Jedi Ninja]

Originally Posted by BlackEleven

Being mendacious? Or just an opportunity for braggadocio?

I have many leather-bound books.

[SeeBass]

I think it would be a better test if they added a few made up words and catch the cheating. Then that result should be thrown out.

[SeeBass]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

I agree, honestly, if you were to sit me down with a piece of paper and write a precise one paragraph definition of each word and an example of it used in a phrase, I would do a lot worse. I checked off the words as words that were familiar to me and I had a more than good idea about their meaning along with others I guessed based on them being from other languages. I did go back and double check though and after looking up the definition, if it didn't match with what I had thought it was, I unchecked the box.

That is the way I did it too. If I couldn't expalin the definition I did not check it.

The average scores are BS

[Huntingwhale]

18,000

[Beerfest]

This test is not accurate.
Get a piece of paper and right down a definition of the word, then we could actually get a real number.

[Bownesian]

31,500

I had my Belgian (Flemish) internet friend do it and he scored 13,400. He's totally fluent from a text chat point of view.

[Traditional_Ale]

Originally Posted by 3 Justin 3

What the hell does leitmotiv mean?

A leitmotiv is a musical term for a riff/hook/lick/melody representing a character or object in a stage production, opera, tv show, or movie.

/nerd.

EDIT: Beaten to it by Hack&Lube.

[Calgaryflamesgirl34]

I got 34,200

[onetwo_threefour]

39,300 being completely certain. There were a couple of words that I recognized but couldn't be 100% sure that I could give an accurate definition though.

i found it ironic that one of the words I had no idea on was clerisy.

[SeeBass]

There seem to be a few liars out there.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by SeeBass

There seem to be a few liars out there.

Methinks a lot of people ignored this instruction:

Don't check boxes for words you know you've seen before, but whose meaning you aren't exactly sure of.

[SeeBass]

Originally Posted by troutman

Methinks a lot of people ignored this instruction:

Don't check boxes for words you know you've seen before, but whose meaning you aren't exactly sure of.

I agree

For a group that can't get their ( too's, to and their, there, who and whom) correct I find the numbers a little hard to swallow.

[koop]

Originally Posted by SeeBass

I agree

For a group that can't get their ( too's, to and their, there, who and whom) correct I find the numbers a little hard to swallow.

Well you don't need to know how to spell a word in order to use/understand it correctly, but with that said the idea that among normal, adult, native english speakers on this board there are some who know twice as many words as others is ridiculous.

[Methanolic]

Tried this test last night when I was ..... um, liquored? ....Scored huge numbers!

This afternoon I was completely honest and I scored 26,000. I feel pretty stupid now. Thanks Internet.