Test Your Vocab
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Ok I am running out of excuses. Will do it later Miss.
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32,000 dead....I have a rubbish memory for definitions, although if they replicated the test using Roger's viz proffanisaurus I may have fared a lot better.
I think peridot, Rob Clarke and Amber should have a word off......go on guys I bet it would be a close thing!
I think peridot, Rob Clarke and Amber should have a word off......go on guys I bet it would be a close thing!
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27700
I was always better at maths, and I'm never one to use long words when short ones will do.
I was always better at maths, and I'm never one to use long words when short ones will do.
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35,100 but I have been around a long time!
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32,900 but what on earth do half those words in the last age mean? (erm likewise long time!)
mad?
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35,800
I almost never read fiction any more - not sure if that is a disadvantage but I cannot imagine encountering those words if you don't. I have had to acquire a whole new vocabulary over the last couple of years though as I have grappled with becoming a social scientist so I read a lot of academic papers full of jargon. Funnily enough not one word of that kind in there at all...
I almost never read fiction any more - not sure if that is a disadvantage but I cannot imagine encountering those words if you don't. I have had to acquire a whole new vocabulary over the last couple of years though as I have grappled with becoming a social scientist so I read a lot of academic papers full of jargon. Funnily enough not one word of that kind in there at all...
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Well it's 32,500 for me... And I have to say that's a lot more than I expected... And about 32000 more than I regularly use.
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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.
Couldn't remember inveigle, DH just said cajole straight away (I didn't tick it!) - I'm not letting him do it he'll get a much better score
Couldn't remember inveigle, DH just said cajole straight away (I didn't tick it!) - I'm not letting him do it he'll get a much better score
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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...