Test your English vocabulary
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The questions alternate between "Antonym" and "Synonym", so pay close attention. See if you can beat my score without cheating...
edit: After finishing the quiz, from the results page, you can run this in the JS console to get a list of the questions that you missed:
questionArr.filter((q, i) => !voc_answers[i]).forEach(q => console.log(q));
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I took it had a similar score. I call bullshit. My vocabulary is not that impressive.
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Top 5% RIP in peace.
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@Karla Really? I thought it included a bunch of really obscure words... if you scored that high, you'd either have an impressive vocabulary or some really lucky guesses.
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@anotherusername I took educated guesses. Choose the only adjective when selecting synonym/antonym of an adjective, etc. Or at least I could narrow down the options.
I'm good at using the test to help me take the test.
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Your English Vocabulary Size is: 10150
★★ Top 39.70%
Your vocabulary size is like that of a 12-year-old teenager in the US!
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I did well enough on the test to have an opinion unclouded by sour grapes.
This test sucks.
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not that bad for ESL. altough i'd like to see the results, for some of the words i had absolutely no idea
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Your English Vocabulary Size is: 29800
★★★ Top 0.16%
You are Shakespeare! You can even create new words that will expand the English dictionary.I had to more or less guess some, but still, not bad for a second language.
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@lolwhat I am impressed by the size of your...vocabulary.
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@Karla That's what
sheyou said!
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@lolwhat I get blamed for saying a lot.
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Well damn,
Your English Vocabulary Size is: 29625
★★★ Top 0.19%It has a pretty broad usage of synonym and antonym. Also, I wish it said what I missed I only had to guess on one so I wonder which ones I missed.
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would I understand what @SpectateSwamp is talking about if my vocabulary was better?
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some of those were genuinely tricky.
it's a bit contrived though to say my vocab is over 30k words because i got some percentage out of 50 synonym/antonym matching questions correct....
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I wonder if the test is the same for everyone. But I agree on the disparagement of the test. For instance, many of the opening words are used more in slang than in educated discussion. But some of those words I had never even seen, and I'm the sort of guy who used to read through Webster's Unabridged. "Avulse"? I'm sorry but I didn't follow the whole Jimmy Fallon degloving incident so I didn't know that it's the opposite of "suture".
23250
★★★ Top 4.67%
Your vocabulary size is equal to that of a 30-year-old successful American businessperson!I honestly feel like I just got dissed by that.
@clippy said in Test your English vocabulary:
Your English Vocabulary Size is: 10150
★★ Top 39.70%
Your vocabulary size is like that of a 12-year-old teenager in the US!Lol wut. Since when is a 12-year-old even a teenager?
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@lolwhat Did you also post that in the comments section of the poll?
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Very first question:
Uh... none of those?
Like I guess is kind of close, but I wouldn't call it a synonym.
EDIT: the second question is equally bad. Ugh. Fuck this test.
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@clippy said in Test your English vocabulary:
Your English Vocabulary Size is: 10150
★★ Top 39.70%
Your vocabulary size is like that of a 12-year-old teenager in the US!Same! Such a coincidence that our language knowledge is identical up to four significant digits, and that a test with just 50 multiple-choice questions can detect this. Amazing!
Also quite interesting that a '12-year-old teenager in the US' has significantly above-average English knowledge, apparently.
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@Kelly-Anderson protip: if you're trying to blend into an IT forum, an attractive female in early twenties is probably the worst choice of an avatar.
Some post parsing, perhaps an English-as-thirteenth-language drone behind the keyboard, but the links in sig are neither well hidden nor working. 3/10 for effort, please improve your spam game.
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@Grunnen said in Test your English vocabulary:
Also quite interesting that a '12-year-old teenager in the US' has significantly above-average English knowledge, apparently.
A 12 year old in the US is a native speaker
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@clippy said in Test your English vocabulary:
@Grunnen said in Test your English vocabulary:
Also quite interesting that a '12-year-old teenager in the US' has significantly above-average English knowledge, apparently.
A 12 year old in the US is a native speaker
Try telling that to our resident Brits.
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@clippy said in Test your English vocabulary:
A 12 year old in the US is a native speaker
Yes, and about 5 billion people in the world are not.
The site probably ranks you among the other people who take the test at their site, whom you don't know. So this "top x %" percentage doesn't really tell you anything.
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@Maciejasjmj said in Test your English vocabulary:
@Kelly-Anderson protip: if you're trying to blend into an IT forum, an attractive female in early twenties is probably the worst choice of an avatar.
Some post parsing, perhaps an English-as-thirteenth-language drone behind the keyboard, but the links in sig are neither well hidden nor working. 3/10 for effort, please improve your spam game.
I wonder if Chachi Gonzales knows her photo is being used by spammers.
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@ben_lubar These spammers are so lazy, they don't even try to be subtle. It shouldn't be hard to do slight drift in some conversation here until you can drop a link to [product].
Maybe because it's just to pay for advertising, in some place with good discount like [redacted - bz] . (affiliate link)
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@clippy said in Test your English vocabulary:
@Grunnen said in Test your English vocabulary:
Also quite interesting that a '12-year-old teenager in the US' has significantly above-average English knowledge, apparently.
A 12 year old in the US is a native speaker
But not, technically speaking a "teenager".
Unless you pronounce 12 as "seconteen" so that thirteen won't feel left out.
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@boomzilla Oh come on, it wasn't a real link.
inb4 :thatsthejoke:
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@anotherusername 29975 here
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@Captain I think that like, all you shakespearean guys should speak like, in a very shakespearean way, like for the rest of this topic. I'll like just use a lot of like, because I read like in a magazine that is how the teens there speak like. Something like that.
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@clippy Forsooth.
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@pydsigner said in Test your English vocabulary:
@boomzilla Oh come on, it wasn't a real link.
Don't tell me how to do my job.
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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...
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@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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@clippy Thou odiferous unwash'd gudgeon!
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@blek said in Test your English vocabulary:
@clippy Thou odiferous unwash'd gudgeon!
[Thou art] as loathsome as a toad.
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@tharpa Yes, that's where I got that from. I mean, uh... aye?
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The antonym of amorphous is... definite
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@pydsigner it is. You just have to get past the chemistry definition of amorphous and recall what it actually means.
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@anotherusername "definite" ≠"having a defined shape or form"
ETA: ed
I stand by my mental distinction of the two concepts.
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I definitely missed:
querulous
alacrityI probably don't even know how to pronounce either of those correctly.
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@anotherusername said in Test your English vocabulary:
@pydsigner it is. You just have to get past the chemistry definition of amorphous and recall what it actually means.
I think that an amoeba meets both definitions.
ETA: I do think it's fair though to say that if something is not definite by that definition, it's almost certainly amorphous.
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From the results page, you can run this in the JS console to get a list of the questions that you missed:
questionArr.filter((q, i) => !voc_answers[i]).forEach(q => console.log(q));
The ones I missed were:
- aggrieved (antonym)
- querulous (synonym)
- avarice (antonym)
edit: in hindsight, I should've got aggrieved correct...
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@blakeyrat said in Test your English vocabulary:
Very first question:
Uh... none of those?
Like I guess is kind of close, but I wouldn't call it a synonym.
EDIT: the second question is equally bad. Ugh. Fuck this test.
µ's
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@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.
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https://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/dota2.gamepedia.com/a/ae/Puck_move_08.mp3
https://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/dota2.gamepedia.com/4/4c/Invo_ability_alacrity_02.mp3
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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.
I only knew alacrity because it was an item modifier suffix in Diablo II.
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@aliceif 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.
I only knew alacrity because it was an item modifier suffix in Diablo II.
Haha, same for me, but with GW2.
Anyways,
29450 / Top 0.23%
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@JazzyJosh said in Test your English vocabulary:
https://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/dota2.gamepedia.com/a/ae/Puck_move_08.mp3
https://hydra-media.cursecdn.com/dota2.gamepedia.com/4/4c/Invo_ability_alacrity_02.mp3
Thank you. Probably won't help. I have trouble with some words I hear with some regularity.
familiarity
metabolism
the distinction between signal and single