Test your English vocabulary
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@Karla The Merriam-Webster website also has audio pronunciations.
alacrity: http://media.merriam-webster.com/audio/prons/en/us/mp3/a/alacri01.mp3
querulous: http://media.merriam-webster.com/audio/prons/en/us/mp3/q/querul01.mp3
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22800, top 5.33%
Not bad, considering I had to make a lot of educated guesses. I still have no idea what some of the words I got right (and their synonyms/antonyms) mean.
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Missed six words... Should have caught aggrieved...
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@aliceif said in Test your English vocabulary:
@tharpa said in Test your English vocabulary:
@anotherusername said in Test your English vocabulary:
The questions alternate between "Antonym" and "Synonym", so pay close attention. See if you can beat my score without cheating...
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Nice, a markdown fuckup.
i figured it was the gods' way of telling me i only deserved a 9800.
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@Captain said in Test your English vocabulary:
@anotherusername 29975 here
Same. I had no idea what avulse and querulous meant, and neither did my spellchecker.
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@Placeholder I was able to guess that avulse means to pull sharply (it has the same root as convulse), and that querulous means something pretty similar to whinging. (Upon looking it up, it's from the same root as quarrel.)
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What's the antonym of 'yes' again? Somebody help me out here!
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@anotherusername See my post right above your.
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Gets hard, though.
I got 29450, good for a non-native speaker, I'd say.
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@CreatedToDislikeThis said in Test your English vocabulary:
Gets hard, though.
I don't have privileges to post image.
That's what she said.
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30325, top 0.01%, only missed avulse (I related it to revulsion, but then mistook the a- prefix for the ad- prefix.)
I have read the complete works of William Shakespeare, in high school I took both Latin and Spanish, in college (university for you non-US-ians) I took a semester of ancient Greek, and I have looked at several other languages. I would say I'm only fluent in English and passable in Spanish, though.
The test starts out with very easy words, and then builds up to more and more difficult ones, which is a good way to build confidence in test-takers. I am curious to see how much they weight each word, and then see what kind of score someone could get if they miss the easy words and match the difficult ones.
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@Karla said in Test your English vocabulary:
I definitely missed:
querulous
alacrityI probably don't even know how to pronounce either of those correctly.
querulous - KWER-yuh-luss, quarrelsome or inquisitive/questioning
alacrity - uh-LACK-rih-tee, speed/velocity@Karla said in Test your English vocabulary:
Thank you. Probably won't help. I have trouble with some words I hear with some regularity.
familiarity
metabolism
the distinction between signal and singleOften it helps to think of words that are similar:
Familiarity -> familiar/family (close relationship)
Signal -> sign (something presenting a message)
Single -> singular (both mean "only one"); here it might also help to think of the pronunciations:
sing-gul and sing-gyoo-lerOther times it can help to learn what the parts of the word mean:
Metabolism << meta- (over) + -bol- (throw) + -ism (process); so metabolism is the process of "throwing" something "over" some sort of theoretical barrier, usually in reference to a body consuming nutrients and converting the food from the ingested format to a format usable for the body.
Ok, this one is a bit of a stretch, so it's probably a bad example.Perhaps better:
Translate << trans- (across) + -late (bear/carry); so to carry across (to move a word or meaning from one language to another)
Avulse << a- (away from) + -vulse (pull or tear); so to pull away from or tear away from (An example is avulsing a ligament - it pulls away from the bones it's supposed to be holding together.)The -mit/-miss root is very fun. It means to send, and there are a lot of English words that use it: commit (send with), transmit (send across), submit (send under), admit (send toward), emit (send from), dismiss (not send), remiss (send again), intermission (sending between), etc.
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@djls45 said in Test your English vocabulary:
@Karla said in Test your English vocabulary:
I definitely missed:
querulous
alacrityI probably don't even know how to pronounce either of those correctly.
querulous - KWER-yuh-luss, quarrelsome or inquisitive/questioning
alacrity - uh-LACK-rih-tee, speed/velocity@Karla said in Test your English vocabulary:
Thank you. Probably won't help. I have trouble with some words I hear with some regularity.
familiarity
metabolism
the distinction between signal and singleOften it helps to think of words that are similar:
Familiarity -> familiar/family (close relationship)
Signal -> sign (something presenting a message)
Single -> singular (both mean "only one"); here it might also help to think of the pronunciations:
sing-gul and sing-gyoo-lerOther times it can help to learn what the parts of the word mean:
Metabolism << meta- (over) + -bol- (throw) + -ism (process); so metabolism is the process of "throwing" something "over" some sort of theoretical barrier, usually in reference to a body consuming nutrients and converting the food from the ingested format to a format usable for the body.
Ok, this one is a bit of a stretch, so it's probably a bad example.Perhaps better:
Translate << trans- (across) + -late (bear/carry); so to carry across (to move a word or meaning from one language to another)
Avulse << a- (away from) + -vulse (pull or tear); so to pull away from or tear away from (An example is avulsing a ligament - it pulls away from the bones it's supposed to be holding together.)The -mit/-miss root is very fun. It means to send, and there are a lot of English words that use it: commit (send with), transmit (send across), submit (send under), admit (send toward), emit (send from), dismiss (not send), remiss (send again), intermission (sending between), etc.
I did have speech therapy for years as a kid. I also stuttered.
I think I have some undiagnosed dyslexia. Because I know the above and that helped me get the words I was unfamiliar with.
I have a tendency to transpose numbers. Or think one number and write another. If someone spells out a word, I always have to ask them to slow down. I just don't process auditorily as quickly.
My spelling sucks. Sometimes I change the word because spell check has nothing for me. I am particularly bad at consecutive vowels. @accalia
I confuse g/j -- worked with a Jeff and a Gregg and had to consciously think about the right name.
I have to think about left/right. I blame that on being left handed.
In contrast to all that, I have a great memory, in 7th grade I memorized Pi to the 100th decimal place for 10 bonus points on a test. I was on the Math League. I aced my organic chemistry final in college to pull an A- for the semester after I got a 0 on one of the tests because I slept through it.
I have often been one of the first people done with tests (which scares me that I missed some of it--I keep looking it over until another person hands in theirs).
I was always very lopsided in favor of the math/science side.
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@Karla said in Test your English vocabulary:
My spelling sucks. Sometimes I change the word because spell check has nothing for me. I am particularly bad at consecutive vowels. @accalia
Hello!
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@Karla Yeah, being done first is always nerve racking. Especially, when you are done in 10 minutes for a 90minute exam. Everyone gives you the oddest looks when you turn your paper in.
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@Dragoon Yeah, I'm like what the hell is taking everyone so long.
Happens at work too. My bosses know I get things done fast compared to others but really, I spend way too much time here.
INB4: The YKYHBSTMTOTDWTFW thread is over there .
How do you get the arrows?
Edit: Add arrows. Thank you @Kuro
I thought they were individual ones so I was looking at the :arrow_
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@Karla
:arrows:
Filed Under: Unless I whooshed
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@Dragoon I've always been one of the first to turn mine in. 3 hr exam? I finished in half an hour to an hour. And then there's not much to look over on a lot of them. I liked the ones where they let me out early, and despised the ones where they made me just sit.
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@Karla Well done! It's always encouraging to hear from someone who works through their difficulties to do well.
I tended to do badly on my math tests because I process math slowly, so I could never complete the tests in the allotted time, but the answers I did give were correct. On the other hand, I remember facts pretty well. I have been called a dictionary or encyclopedia on numerous occasions, and been used as one even more often.
On a tangent (and IANAD), I suspect most (or all?) smart people could be diagnosed as having mild-to-moderate autism.
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@Karla said in Test your English vocabulary:
I spend way too much time here.
On this note, I'm currently working on a thing that I'm out of my depth on, and one of my bosses asked if I needed help, and I said yes, and have heard nothing since. I don't trust what I'm doing, and so I'm moving at a glacial pace, when really I could be fast if I wasn't fairly certain I'll get it wrong.
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@Kuro No, I was legitimately asking.
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Your English Vocabulary Size is: 28750
Seems pretty flawed to me, when people get numbers in such proximity at the upper end of the scale. Getting the most obscure words right in this quiz should add at least 5k each to the score.
Looks like they presume that there is a definite body of around 30k English words which is ludicrously low. They can't accept the
indefiniteamorphous nature of the language. This makes mesadmiserable.
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@Karla said in Test your English vocabulary:
INB4: The YKYHBSTMTOTDWTFW thread is : arrows:
Is there really one? I must spend even MOAR time here reading every single post in that thread!
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@djls45 Yeah, me too. I always joke I am little aspie (Asperger's syndrome).
My husband refers to my spot on the chair as my Sheldon chair.
The speech, never gave me much of a problem other than socially. I was always a good student. I've been told my mother never knew what to do with me long before kindergarten.
ETA: I've read girl aspies tend to go undiagnosed because they are better at observing how others behave and modelling that.
ETA2: And girls tend to be better students and take less risks .
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@anotherusername silly work firewall, so doing mobile!
I call bs...
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@Kelly-Anderson Lol banned.
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@anotherusername said in Test your English vocabulary:
Answers
The synonym of love is:- left
- life
- live
- like
The synonym of much is:- less
- many
- rather
- deal
The synonym of child is:- kid
- chill
- call
- forget
The synonym of large is:- tiny
- faded
- new
- big
The synonym of deal is:- sale
- recoup
- claim
- plea
The synonym of companion is:- fool
- mirror
- entrapment
- partner
The synonym of trash is:- crack
- squeeze
- punch
- junk
The synonym of above is:- pierce
- slow
- over
- work
The synonym of specify is:- designate
- capitulate
- arcane
- assail
The synonym of fall is:- spit
- squeal
- drop
- succeed
The antonym of old is:- tell
- small
- age
- new
The antonym of yes is:- notice
- yep
- no
- nice
The antonym of come is:- try
- most
- go
- live
The synonym of fly is:- hop
- peer
- drink
- soar
The antonym of active is:- unable
- passive
- inability
- disagree
The antonym of dangerous is:- silly
- careless
- safe
- sadness
The antonym of distant is:- disease
- flex
- obey
- near
The antonym of narrow is:- scold
- punish
- near
- broad
The antonym of separate is:- weak
- ordinary
- unite
- break
The antonym of normal is:- doubt
- standard
- protracted
- extraordinary
The synonym of spade is:- shovel
- needle
- club
- oak
The synonym of done is:- embellished
- squeaked
- finished
- talked
The synonym of beg is:- implore
- recant
- fancy
- answer
The synonym of lax is:- negligent
- mindful
- neurotic
- delectable
The synonym of quash is:- evade
- enumerate
- assist
- defeat
The synonym of minor is:- crude
- trivial
- presidential
- flow
The synonym of drab is:- admissible
- barbaric
- spiffy
- lackluster
The synonym of related is:- steadfast
- pertinent
- alien
- intrinsic
The synonym of annoying is:- facile
- clicker
- counter
- obnoxious
The synonym of incipient is:- galling
- nascent
- chromatic
- capricious
The antonym of foul is:- repelling
- nasty
- fair
- dirty
The antonym of compensate is:- underpay
- coordinate
- extortion
- hooking
The antonym of acquiesce is:- inept
- resist
- gentle
- irascible
The antonym of adamant is:- disdain
- adjunct
- vacillant
- aerate
The antonym of alienate is:- reunite
- away
- sluggish
- aggressive
The antonym of avulse is:- suture
- aver
- timid
- dry
The antonym of catalyst is:- current
- damp
- nadir
- prevention
The antonym of amorphous is:- allay
- abridge
- inimical
- definite
The antonym of aggrieved is:- recalcitrant
- buoyant
- warped
- exacerbate
The antonym of apologist is:- physicist
- critic
- fidelity
- canon
The synonym of widow is:- sire
- fiend
- spank
- dowager
The synonym of omen is:- opulence
- harbinger
- mystic
- demand
The synonym of querulous is:- fugacious
- vapid
- fractious
- extemporaneous
The synonym of hightail is:- abscond
- report
- perturb
- surmise
The synonym of gargantuan is:- promiscuous
- niggardly
- equestrian
- titanic
The antonym of avarice is:- deny
- dependence
- generosity
- yoke
The antonym of alacrity is:- intimate
- provoker
- soother
- sluggishness
The antonym of altruism is:- apocrypha
- noisome
- egoism
- extraneous
The antonym of affinity is:- disperse
- antipathy
- needy
- warped
The antonym of baneful is:- blighted
- jejune
- inveigled
- salubrious
I feel like I should surruptitiously drop some spam links in here, just to reward you for reading this far...E_SYRUP_NOT_FOUND.
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@Magus I'm a bit hyper--I have tough time sitting through classes. Still slower on things I am unfamiliar with.
I do tend to goof off when I need to think how to do something and I am learning that actually is a good thing. Or I think of the solution on the way home.
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@Tsaukpaetra The orange-highlighted message is wrong of course, because there can't be ANYTHING in NodeBB bug-free.
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@Karla said in Test your English vocabulary:
@Magus I'm a bit hyper--I have tough time sitting through classes. Still slower on things I am unfamiliar with.
I do tend to goof off when I need to think how to do something and I am learning that actually is a good thing. Or I think of the solution on the way home.
My mother learned how to crochet by dreaming about it.
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@Karla said in Test your English vocabulary:
@Magus I'm a bit hyper--I have tough time sitting through classes.
I always seemed like an ideal student, because I'd just read the textbook or whatever while waiting for things to happen, since I can't deal with doing nothing.
@Karla said in Test your English vocabulary:
I do tend to goof off when I need to think how to do something and I am learning that actually is a good thing. Or I think of the solution on the way home.
During university I infuriated my friends by constantly wanting to take breaks and play games, and then suddenly knowing the answer when we began working again.
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@Magus said in Test your English vocabulary:
@Karla said in Test your English vocabulary:
I spend way too much time here.
On this note, I'm currently working on a thing that I'm out of my depth on, and one of my bosses asked if I needed help, and I said yes, and have heard nothing since. I don't trust what I'm doing, and so I'm moving at a glacial pace, when really I could be fast if I wasn't fairly certain I'll get it wrong.
Perhaps your boss is "helping" by not giving you more tasks...?
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@djls45 I'm just hoping I get moved to the other team I applied for, since they're not using our bizarre DSL with 30 years of code against a giant static data store.
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@djls45 That's impressive. I had to have a left-handed aunt show me. I think I took a relatively long time to learn to tie my shoes.
During university I infuriated my friends by constantly wanting to take breaks and play games, and then suddenly knowing the answer when we began working again.
@MagusI had to study much harder in college than I did in HS. I went a public HS, and an Ivy college.
I also had a friend help edit my papers.
Perhaps your boss is "helping" by not giving you more tasks...?
@djls45 I do things on my own or improve and refactor things. That has gotten me in trouble in the past but my current bosses seem to appreciate it. Or a make tool that makes detail grunt work easier. I am also really good a researching..I've showed by DBA a few solutions to some obscure problems.
The biggest problem with most coworkers is most of them don't want to learn new things and mostly coast. Much of the code still uses techniques from 5 - 10 years ago because most people just copy and paste. That drives me crazy.
Edit: Oh you weren't talking to me. Oops.
Edit 2:Forgot to tag @Magus
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@blakeyrat said in Test your English vocabulary:
@Tsaukpaetra The orange-highlighted message is wrong of course, because there can't be ANYTHING in NodeBB bug-free.
It's not technically wrong: None of the user's posts are visible to me, therefore 0 posts, but the message displayed is probably needing some accuracy attentions.
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@Karla said in Test your English vocabulary:
I think I took a relatively long time to learn to tie my shoes.
All the stupid "bunny holes" and "tree" analogies never did it for me. I took the end result, reverse engineered it, and now I tie my shoes in a way most people find baffling.
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@Karla said in Test your English vocabulary:
I think I took a relatively long time to learn to tie my shoes.
Another lefty checking in; yeah that was tough for me too. I also have a severe disadvantage in basketball because I learned to dribble right-handed but shoot left-handed (horrible for lay-ups).
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@pydsigner There are several comments here.
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/13533/the-official-first-world-problems-thread/2644
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@JazzyJosh said in Test your English vocabulary:
Top 5% RIP in peace.
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@FrostCat You're tied with @accalia
And I already made the joke about being impressed with the size of someone's vocabulary.
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@Karla said in Test your English vocabulary:
being impressed with the size of someone's
...... sorr.... no, actually, not sorry.
one should never be sorry for
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@accalia What if it's really bad ? Like someone-got-hurt ?
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22800 5.33%. it's good enough.
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Didn't look anything up, just did this properly:
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Wound up second-guessing myself out of a perfect score with "avulse". Still happy with this.