BenitoChavez
What business is it of yours?
Definitions irritate me sometimes
Crappy Dictionary said:
CFC English Vocabulary Challenge
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Lohrenswald
世界的 bottom ranked physicist
Vainglory: the attribute of a vainglorious person or action
madviking
north american scum
circular reasoning, n: a fallacy where one employs circular reasoning
People I will never play Scrabble against.
INANITY (noun) - 1) the quality or state of being inane: as
a: lack of substance : emptiness
b: vapid, pointless, or fatuous character : shallowness
2) something that is inane
DICHOTOMY (noun) - a difference between two opposite things : a division into two opposite groups
Rashiminos
Fool Prophet
35000, 73% (93/20, likely overestimates)
'nonwords' I said yes to and probable reasons
cholfish - chorfish
bawpy - reminded me of bawling
aucodlet - au codlet would be an informal mixture of french and english, it seemed like a grammatical description
oversim - oversimulate seemed like a possible word, oversim is short for open-source simulation framework apparently
pelind - sounded like a possible word in my head, resembles a word in an indonesian language
lapit - sounded like a possible word in my head, actually a finnish word.
words I didn't say yes to:
dem·i·sem·i·qua·ver (dĕm′ē-sĕm′ē-kwā′vər)
n. Music
A thirty-second note.
erne also ern (ûrn)
n.
A sea eagle, especially Haliaeetus albicilla of Europe.
Adj. 1. ceilinged - provided with a ceiling especially the overhead interior surface; "the large beam-ceilinged living room"
brat·tice (brăt′ĭs)
n.
1. A partition, typically of wood or cloth, erected in a mine for ventilation.
2. A breastwork erected during a siege.
e·ryth·ro·cyte (ĭ-rĭth′rə-sīt′
n.
See red blood cell.
Call him an errancy and be done with it.
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Merriam-Webster has their own vocabulary quizzes: http://www.merriam-webster.com/quiz/index.htm
10/10, 3640
9/10, 3100
"I fought the schwa, and the schwa won."
Link to video.
'nonwords' I said yes to and probable reasons
cholfish - chorfish
bawpy - reminded me of bawling
aucodlet - au codlet would be an informal mixture of french and english, it seemed like a grammatical description
oversim - oversimulate seemed like a possible word, oversim is short for open-source simulation framework apparently
pelind - sounded like a possible word in my head, resembles a word in an indonesian language
lapit - sounded like a possible word in my head, actually a finnish word.
words I didn't say yes to:
dem·i·sem·i·qua·ver (dĕm′ē-sĕm′ē-kwā′vər)
n. Music
A thirty-second note.
erne also ern (ûrn)
n.
A sea eagle, especially Haliaeetus albicilla of Europe.
Adj. 1. ceilinged - provided with a ceiling especially the overhead interior surface; "the large beam-ceilinged living room"
brat·tice (brăt′ĭs)
n.
1. A partition, typically of wood or cloth, erected in a mine for ventilation.
2. A breastwork erected during a siege.
e·ryth·ro·cyte (ĭ-rĭth′rə-sīt′
n.
See red blood cell.
Call him an errancy and be done with it.
Spoiler :
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Merriam-Webster has their own vocabulary quizzes: http://www.merriam-webster.com/quiz/index.htm
10/10, 3640
9/10, 3100
Spoiler :
"I fought the schwa, and the schwa won."
Link to video.
I scored right on the median at 30.8k, apparently. You know that instruction, "ignore words you've seen but don't know"? I have never seen any of the words I didn't checkmark on section 2. WTH?
Checking the definitions, almost none of these words are used for anything, so I'm discounting them
Spoiler :
Checking the definitions, almost none of these words are used for anything, so I'm discounting them
sophie
Break My Heart
I've used 10 of those words at one point or another.
I took the Merriam-Webster and scored a 3860 Points to the average of ~2500 (2270 for my age group). Time bonuses and limited sample size make it kind of messed up, though. Not a particularly serious test.
I finally found the other test people were referring to: 84%.
But actually, never mind, because I forgot to read this important bit:
Now, remember that these percentiles are not for the population as a whole, but rather just those who have taken the test online. Comparing with self-reported SAT scores from previous analysis, overall participation is in roughly the 98th percentile of the American population as a whole — it is apparently a very "elite" group of people who spend their time taking vocabulary tests on the Internet! So altogether anyone who scores above the bottom quintile is probably doing quite well relative to the general population.
I finally found the other test people were referring to: 84%.
But actually, never mind, because I forgot to read this important bit:
Now, remember that these percentiles are not for the population as a whole, but rather just those who have taken the test online. Comparing with self-reported SAT scores from previous analysis, overall participation is in roughly the 98th percentile of the American population as a whole — it is apparently a very "elite" group of people who spend their time taking vocabulary tests on the Internet! So altogether anyone who scores above the bottom quintile is probably doing quite well relative to the general population.
Akka
Moody old mage.
Got a 32400 on the test.
Amusingly, I think my result is inflated compared to my real level in english because of my actual native tongue : a HUGE amount of the most "obscure" words used are just straight from french, so obviously I know their meaning.
So basically I'm good at english because I'm good at french
(and got 83 % on the other test)
Amusingly, I think my result is inflated compared to my real level in english because of my actual native tongue : a HUGE amount of the most "obscure" words used are just straight from french, so obviously I know their meaning.
So basically I'm good at english because I'm good at french
(and got 83 % on the other test)
Rashiminos
Fool Prophet
Got a 32400 on the test.
Amusingly, I think my result is inflated compared to my real level in english because of my actual native tongue : a HUGE amount of the most "obscure" words used are just straight from french, so obviously I know their meaning.
So basically I'm good at english because I'm good at french
That's got to be the best brag related to the Norman Conquest I've seen all year.
brat·tice (brăt′ĭs)
n.
1. A partition, typically of wood or cloth, erected in a mine for ventilation.
2. A breastwork erected during a siege.
I thought it sounded somewhat familiar. I think I've heard it before referencing definition 2, reading an book about castles as a child.
n.
1. A partition, typically of wood or cloth, erected in a mine for ventilation.
2. A breastwork erected during a siege.
I thought it sounded somewhat familiar. I think I've heard it before referencing definition 2, reading an book about castles as a child.
So that's what the upside down "e" means (the sound "uh").
Not sure how to type it on keyboard though.
Oops double post.
Too much playing with ALT button >.<
**Edit**
Polysemy (noun) - The coexistence of many possible meanings for a word or phrase.
Diachronous (adjective) - Varying in age from place to place.
Too much playing with ALT button >.<
**Edit**
Polysemy (noun) - The coexistence of many possible meanings for a word or phrase.
Diachronous (adjective) - Varying in age from place to place.
Try using "& # 6 0 1 ;" without spaces to get "ə" or any of the other to get something else respectively.
This doubles as TIL, but just now I ran across the word schediaphilia for the first time, which is apparently "the primary and exclusive sexual attraction to cartoon or anime characters. A person with this attraction feels love, sexual arousal, or emotional attraction to virtual characters."
Well, now you know.
Well, now you know.
Does watching hentai count? I ask because those are cartoons specifically geared towards bringing about sexual arousal in the viewer, so it would seem unfair to call someone a schediaphilic simply because they were aroused by hentai. Now, if they develop a serious crush on, say, Bugs Bunny, then yes they would fit the definition of this word.
jackelgull
An aberration of nature
The word denotes "exclusive to cartoon characters" meaning that if someone can only be stimulated by hentai, and not by a flesh and blood beauty, then it would count towards that category, I think. Unless our language exerts care to clarify this for me.