How big is your vocabulary?

[axnff]

477 - I do a lot of reading, but missed a majority of the legal and medical words (particularly in the 5th column).

Just a note, judging by the grammar on the first page, it would appear that this is written by foreigners for foreigners. It appears to be a gauge for how well they would be able to communicate while visiting an English-language country.

I have a feeling they just pulled words from textbooks from different grades. Those that were common to all go in the first column, those that were common to all but the sixth-grade texts go in the second column, "high school" (junior?) level in the third, "some college" (soph?) in the fourth, college grad (grad school or high-level university? not sure), and possibly those found only in professional or specialized fields go in the sixth.

If my assumption is correct, they are probably grossly overstimating the actual reading level of those who study those texts. This would result in an underestimation of the test-taker's reading level.

Just speculation....

 

[AbsolutDealage]

488

 

[tami]

i don't like how the test is not unique. i want to try again.

 

[D1gger]

489 for me. Some of those words are very obscure.

 

[SpiderWiz]

417

 

[imported_Reck]

315. i missed most above level 3...

 

[Czar]

will take it later and get owned

 

[speg]

287... I always was a mathie...

 

[cKGunslinger]

466 - that took forever to do. :thumbsdown

 

[Accipiter22]

Originally posted by: Whitecloak
666 The Number of the Beast

I think 600 is ht e max...

 

[Accipiter22]

497....kinda shocked I wans't higher

 

[Swag1138]

570. I'm an avid reader, took 4 years of latin in HS, and am an English Major dropout.

 

[TheAdvocate]

572. I used to write for a living.

 

[thirdlegstump]

That made me look really stupid. Oh well. At least I can make up for it with my massive appendage and guitar skills.

 

[ValkyrieofHouston]

I scored 457, College Gradute School level. Interesting because I could swear they purposely made up words on that test.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

My vocabulary is larger than my patience, that site is a PITA

 

[Mill]

485, but I was actually honest, and I if I was 100% sure I knew the definition or had seen it recently I didn't check it.

 

[nd]

339, which appears to be far below the average here. I was quite honest when answering (that is, even if I had seen the word used a lot and could understand it in certain contexts, I would not check it unless I knew the actual definition).

In my defense, I'd also like to add that my vocabulary is far stronger in certain technical fields, though relatively weak when it comes to vocabulary used in literature/novels. Literature/novels have little value to me so I guess there's not much to gain by learning all those words.

 

[CVSiN]

342

 

[sciwizam]

475

 

[Mo0o]

411, didn't check anywords that I couldn't make a full sentence out of. Oh well

 

[kranky]

465. I pride myself on having a large vocabulary and I read a ton. I salute those who did better, that's quite impressive.

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

449. I find it surprising that a number of people here have done better.

 

[skyking]

If it were weighted more to legal terms, you would have blown us away.

 

[Eli]

lol..

I'd like to think pretty big, but that thing made me feel stupid.

391.