What’s your vocabulary?

thezappa · 26 Jun 2018 at 20:57

Saw this on the bbc news website.
It’s a quiz basically, asking you what words mean. There are quite a few questions, about 140.

I messed it up on my phone and answered a couple incorrectly (when you press an answer it moves on automatically.
Anyway test is here if you’ve got a few minutes to kill.
http://my.vocabularysize.com/select/test

GravyMonster · 26 Jun 2018 at 21:00

Well, procrastinating is definitely one word I know.

pooley · 26 Jun 2018 at 21:01

u wot m8 lolz

Shocky-FM · 26 Jun 2018 at 21:03

100 questions.... maybe when I've got time.

LuckyBenski · 26 Jun 2018 at 21:16

25,000. Pretty easy until it got hard at the end.

Gerard · 26 Jun 2018 at 21:21

LuckyBenski said:
it got hard at the end.

VincentHanna · 26 Jun 2018 at 21:24

You know at least 20,700 English word families!

NooBish AbbZ · 26 Jun 2018 at 21:25

Got bored at 20. Probably would score above average but not much above average

garsands · 26 Jun 2018 at 21:28

There are 140 questions in this test

That's as far as I got

LuckyBenski · 26 Jun 2018 at 21:30

garsands said:
That's as far as I got

Well that's at least 6!

Nitefly · 26 Jun 2018 at 21:34

For a vocabulary test this has a pretty poor (or shallow) understanding of words....

Freakbro · 26 Jun 2018 at 21:36

You know at least 24,400 English word families!

I know I got a few wrong, chose too quickly and a couple I didn't know at all.

Seems to be geared more for people who English isn't their primary language

Freakbro · 26 Jun 2018 at 21:38

Nitefly said:
For a vocabulary test this has a pretty poor (or shallow) understanding of words....

Yea, some of the 'correct' answers were a bit abstract themselves

crisbduck · 26 Jun 2018 at 21:44

Gave up at...

evacuate:
They were evacuated.
searched in case they had guns or knives
extremely frightened
moved to another place for safety
made to look guilty of a crime

adolf hamster · 26 Jun 2018 at 21:47

20,200

although i must say some of the words, like sputnik, seemed a bit odd, especially with the ending spiel about how they were using words to determine associations when sputnik is very much a specific noun with only one possible meaning in it's english usage (although i'm sure it means something different in russian)

Nitefly · 26 Jun 2018 at 21:47

Freakbro said:
Yea, some of the 'correct' answers were a bit abstract themselves

Well, I say that and then got 15,000

Hadn’t heard of loads of the words.

terley · 26 Jun 2018 at 22:01

Thought I'd do better 2bh... I know I've got a decent vocabulary.

Diddums · 26 Jun 2018 at 22:04

I estimate the value of this quiz as floccinaucinihilipilification.

robfosters · 26 Jun 2018 at 22:09

23800

robfosters · 26 Jun 2018 at 22:10

Anyone under 20,000

SEND THEM BACK :mad: