Are you a vocabulary champ?

[sublime311]

I took this MSN quiz and was crowned a "Mediocre wordsmith" after getting 9/15 correct! lol A wee bit embarrassing! :o I had the most trouble with the ones that required you to name the one out of three words that were least similar to the others.

Anyway, here's the quiz: http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/quiz/quiz.aspx?QuizID=292

How did you do?

[MsPeachy]

I'm NVC Champ Material!!! Got 12/15 right.

Fun Quiz
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Wish I could send this to the moron who writes the tickers for NBC news. This morning it said the Redskins win over the Cowboys secured them a Playoff birth. :rolleyes:

[EmilyBronte]

Same as you... 9/15.

[AHammer]

I gave up after question 10!

[j*east]

Whew, 12/15. (I'm an English teacher, so I better know something, right?) I'm embarrassed I didn't do better--but I could also argue with 2 of the 3 I missed. :p

[TracieB]

I got 12 right. Those were tough!

[red_canuck]

it still called me mediocre with 11/15. Ah well.

[HeatherFL]

13/15! Yeah, those were hard!

[RobynScott]

Phew - that was fun (and tough!) but I'm a NVC champ! 14/15 correct! Those which of these is not like the other two were tough.

[jmvan74]

Only mediocre. 8/15. :o I used to be intelligent.... *scratching my head*

[dionysia]

Crashed my browser. :(

Will have to try later!

[Hello Kitty]

11/15 Despite never reading recently :o

[AlenaCal]

13/15! Those last two questions tripped me up... guess I'd better go play more Free Rice. ;)

[IrishEyes]

Holy crap! I got 14/15 right! How come I didn't do better on the Verbal portion of the SATs?

[jmvan74]

13/15! Those last two questions tripped me up... guess I'd better go play more Free Rice. ;)


LOL! I think I need to play Free Rice, more than you do. :D

[thompso2]

13/15 -- that was hard!

[jimmysgirl424]

11/15 and I'm still a mediocre wordsmith. :o

[jbemommy]

13/15. Not bad for a biology major/M.D.!

[bookworm]

13/15.

[Kopper]

11/15

[LittleFredPunkinHead]

13/15- I messed up on equipoise and disembarassment.

[BumbleB]

12/15. :) good enough for me.

[Yvangeline]

14/15. I got the reverberate/relegate/rusticate one wrong, as I suspected I would ;)

[phoenics]

Whew, 12/15. (I'm an English teacher, so I better know something, right?) I'm embarrassed I didn't do better--but I could also argue with 2 of the 3 I missed. :p

Me too.

[Baxter78]

Phew that was tough!

I got 13/15 - NVC Champ material! Who knew? ;)

I missed reverbrate (as the one that does not belong) and extrication (a synonym for disembarrassment)

[camberne]

12/15. I should have gotten the "which is not a word" question right, but I thought the answer was too obvious and went with the other that I really did know in the back of my head was a word.

The other two - I'm okay with getting wrong. :)

[Tracie]

I only got 7 out of 12 - but I'm horrible at vocabulary. I'm a math/science person. I'm suprised I did that good.

[dionysia]

11/15.

[PinkMartini]

8/15 - Wow I suck :o

[attorneymom]

14/15, but now I have a headache!:)

Reading some of those sentences was like listening to some of my fellow attorneys speak.:rolleyes:

[Purple]

I am NVC champ material! I scored 12/15 and yes it was hard. Many words I learned from just reading. I wish more questions were about the root origin of the word- I am good at that.

[Photobug]

13/15 NVC champ material! Maybe we're weird, but a lot of those words I hear in everyday conversations at home and at work. But then I work at a museum, so lots of scholarly types! It was fun, though! I agree with PP, those sentences at the end gave me a headache!

[WisWis]

9/15. I think that talking to 9th graders all day has ruined my ability to be intelligent!

[KristyK]

NVC champ material!
You got 12/15 correct.

Holy crap!! I'm simply amazed. I have no clue how I knew enough to get a 12! I think it must be back in the cobwebs, way in the back of my brain!

[Sha259]

I also got 12/15. I was a bit down, because I really did know one of the other answers, but second guessed myself (I do that all the time). And though I am a scientist, I do tend to be good at inferring and guessing the meaning of words, even words in different languages. It really does help to know the root word, or its meaning in a romance language (like spanish or french). Oh well, that was fun! I always appreciate anything that makes me stretch my brain a bit.

OT - Di, I love your DW sig, experpt from the Girl in the Fireplace!

[ysolde]

NVC champ material! (13/15). Not bad, considering English is my second language . . .

[pixiecat]

11/15. And I think I got lucky b/c I thought it was freaking hard!

[MollJay]

13/15. That was really tough.

[Chimichanga]

10/15

That was hard! I had to use the words around the "big" words to figure out the meaning. Whew! I thought I did okay though for not knowing many of them though.

[sparkle&shine]

11/15

[MrsBeckyLP]

I got 7/15, but I DID NOT pick up a dictionary once. I have to assume some of you with higher scores used one. :p

I also wonder how many people took this test, got crappy results, and didn't post their answer. :cool: My guess is a lot, since most of the scores posted here were good ones.

FWIW, I write/edit for a living. Why use a 25-cent word when a nickel one will do? :D

[shouldaeloped]

11/15- still mediocre.

and I have a degree in English. oops. :o

[PG-rated]

13/15 - NVC Champ. I got disembarrassment and reverberate wrong. For the sentence questions at the end, I found you didn't have to actually read all of them, because the questions didn't always depend on context. For example, I knew that "raconteur" came from a French root meaning "to retell" without needing to see it used in a sentence.

[Lauren23]

11/15. I'll take it! I was an English major, but I've never been too good with vocab.

[Rosebud93]

9/15 - And I am yet another English major (English EDUCATION at that - good thing I'm not teaching!). :o <hangs head in shame>