Test Your Vocab
 

Please test your vocab and put the results in here

4,170 for me

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17,900.

There, I've partaken in your tremendously uninteresting questionnaire. Can I do something more interesting now?

19,200. Heathens.

The word-of-the-days I had in fourth grade means I can barely recall a time where I wasn't sure what abscond means.

It would be nice to know how much words you know in english
specially if you're not a native

23,500

I thought I was going to get lower when I didn't know almost the entire last column of words.

32,800? I suspect that result is somewhat inflated by knowing a few of the more obscure ones (like terpsichorean, tenebrous, and funambulist).

30,900

More than I expected. I suspect that this count is off somewhat because I also know words like phosphokinase and polyadenylated and there didn't seem to be a large proportion of those in the test.

31,400? Really? I'm... Not sure how.

Born and raised in England. Can you not tell with my near perfect grammar?

What is your mean by Can you not tell ? :confused:

...English is your second language, isn't it?

'Can you not tell' is a slightly sarcastic way of saying 'It should be obvious", or something similar.

28,600, which makes me certifiably dumber than Alcore, Puzzlebox, and Tope.

As you know I just know 4000 words in English:( so yes English is my second language

thanks a lot for what you taught me

Hey, apparently I'm dumber than most of you (No offense N7). And I'm just fine with that :p

Knowing less words does not make you dumb. I feel really stupid compared to most of the forumites around these parts and despite knowing the meaning of words, my grammar and spelling is atrocious.

I had the same score.

I know most of the words I knew were because I read a lot of pretentious books. And a lot of non pretentious books that use big words. Series of Unfortunate Events played an enormous role in expanding my vocabulary, even to the point where my parents wouldn't believe me that xenial was a word when I put it down in a game of Scrabble. Had to go through about three dictionaries before I got to one that was big enough to have it in there. Even the spellcheck on this forum doesn't think that's a real word.

The thing about words is that their primary function is communication. If the people you're trying to communicate with don't understand the words you choose, it doesn't matter how apt or impressive they might be.

I'd argue that it's far more useful to have a basic ability in a second language (or more) rather than knowing a lot of obscure words in your primary language. If you and I were to compare Spanish vocab, I'm sure we'd see how much "certifiably dumber" I am. ;)

Agreed with Puzzlebox. Half the obscure words I know are entirely unusable in reality are really confined to the world of GRE test taking and academic writings. And academic writers really just flaunt those words to be pompous.

This test your vocabulary thing however deals with passive as opposed to active vocabulary.