Test Your Vocab

[mad?]

If you read the background they exclude words from the test for all sorts of reasons including archaism. But we all still use "caitiff" on a daily basis obviously...

I didn't know that one

[southbucks3]

Couldn't remember inveigle, DH just said cajole straight away (I didn't tick it!)

I got that one purely because it's always popping up in history magazine.

I too have no idea what the last list of words meant really, I knew the old fuddy duddy words though....dh will absolutely trounce me, he reads Stephen kings books, notorious for flashy vocab, huge historical novels and is a regular radio four story time listener. I probably subliminally absorbed half my vocab from watching rumpole and the other half from dh!

I agree with sd....I do not use most of the vocab I know, which is probably a shame.

Now I have looked up caitiff I really want to know how to pronounce it properly and use it on the next toerag with a nasty dog I meet when out walking my girls.

[Tinkers]

27700


I was always better at maths, and I'm never one to use long words when short ones will do.

DH has just did it and got 39100. I am officially sulking.

[yoyo123]

27700


I was always better at maths, and I'm never one to use long words when short ones will do.

DH has just did it and got 39100. I am officially sulking.

[doodles]

35,000 for me but surely some of them aren't even words. I reckon they are plants to stop you cheating!!

[Rosy Pippin]

32,300
And now I need to go and look up all those words that I didn't know
I think I'd like to raise an appeal - surely it would be a more accurate test if you had to click on the meanings from a multi choice list?

[Amber]

35800 but golly what a lot I either have forgotten with the lack of reading these days or never knew. I tend to read academic / educational journals.:

Yeah, see what it's done for us, moved. If only epistemology, ontology, hegemony, positivism etc had been in there - we'd have been well away. I do rather like pule though - that is a new one on me and I may have to start using it.

Couldn't remember inveigle

You obviously don't have a cat.

[Sally-Anne]

You obviously don't have a cat.

The meaning of "inveigle" is expressed perfectly here (and in many other hilarious videos): Simon's Cat. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s13dLaTI ... DsD--nXkel" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

(Disclaimer: I do not have a cat!)

[moved]

I did know pule but only from French. I have a puling dog.

[doodles]

Apparently pule cheese is the world's most expensive, being made from the milk of Balkan donkeys