Merriam-Webster posed a “challenging vocab quiz,” featuring 14 formidable words.
Another Merriam-Webster quiz. I got 11/14==mostly from reading 19th century novels where the habitually used longer or more complex words than we use today. How did you do?
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I only got six. That was brutal. I’m impressed with your 11/14!
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Well honesty says that I had to take it twice because it froze on me the first time I tried. I did get some of the same words wrong twice. But I did recognize some of the words honestly.
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A rather gormless six!
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As a speaker of the Queen’s English, I had higher expectations than that. Must be reading too much modern fiction. LOL
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Never heard of a few of them
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Some of them were obscure, I agree.
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But you did know gormless. Great answer under the circumstances.
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I learned the wrong definition for pussilanimous ages ago and cannot seem to shake it, no matter how many times I have looked it up and re-learned it. I should try building a mental word association pussilanimous pussycat to block the pussilanimous pugilistic association that keeps resurfacing.
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Your explanation has left me befuddled. I figured you would do well on that quiz.
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So did I. There’s fog over Marblehead today.
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Why, anybody can have a brain. That’s a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain.
The Wizard of Oz
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A most erudite response JeanMarie. Thanks for adding it.
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And the great North woods are hundreds of miles from Marblehead. Heck of a fog bank.
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I also got 11/14, which isn’t that great, according to the virtual scorekeeper. (I beg to differ, however. I think we did great!)
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At least we have some multi-syllabic words in our vocabulary.
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Yep. 😀
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8 out of 14. According to the website, I’m “in the top 50%.” Sounds good. But, I’m no mathematician but doesn’t that mean I could also be in the bottom 50%?
whispers: not a competition, not a competition, not a competition……
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You are right, it’s not a competition. Bottom 50% would be 0-49% so I think you can give yourself full credit for top 50%. You certainly get extra credit for that brillig answer. (Brillg in this case is not a typo.)
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Brillig? What does that mean? I can’t find it.
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Thank you for sharing.
This was quite easy for me because most of these words have Latin origins
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I don’t suppose being Italian hurt either. 🙂 Glad you did so well.
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Thank you 😉
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You’re welcome.
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JeanMarie, It was a mis-remembered quote from Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky. ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe. I always thought it was a deliberate misspelling of billiant, but a Google search has Humpty Dumpty defining “brillig. Noun. (uncountable) A nonce word in Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky, explained by Humpty Dumpty as “four o’clock in the afternoon — the time when you begin broiling things for dinner.” Obviously my vocabulary was not educated enough to use brillig correctly. ;(
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