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When I first read that I thought you meant "nitty-gritty" was one of the words they checked. Joel Send a noteboard - 21/08/2011 03:26:28 PM
Interesting test linked on Twitter today. Not sure how scientific and accurate it is - they give detailed reasoning for word choice under "Nitty-Gritty" - but it's a little bit fun.

My guess is it's pretty accurate for people with an SAT verbal around 700; trouble is, as they note, that's a pretty small chunk of the populace. I came in slightly above average for my age (37 next month) and SAT verbal (720) at 36,900, which would probably be good anywhere but here. If only I hadn't blanked on "nostrum" it would be over 37,000. O^

EDIT: As a point of reference, the wife came in at 21,400 (she says it's because she doesn't know all the French words, but she took French in school and I didn't, so I don't see why that matters. :P) Still pretty good for a non-native speaker, but what embarrasses me is that copyrightamilla will probably crush both of us. :[
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Help out these researchers: test your English vocabulary Rebekah - 21/08/2011 03:07:24 PM 748 Views
When I first read that I thought you meant "nitty-gritty" was one of the words they checked. Joel - 21/08/2011 03:26:28 PM 472 Views
Perhpas I misunderstood the instructions, because it told me my vocabulary is 1680 words. *NM* Palatine - 21/08/2011 04:03:19 PM 182 Views
I tried to be very conservative Tom - 21/08/2011 04:55:08 PM 532 Views
That was my thought as well Larry - 21/08/2011 06:24:06 PM 567 Views
Indeed. If you read their explanation, however, there's a decent reason for that. Rebekah - 21/08/2011 06:27:34 PM 506 Views
I did read it Larry - 21/08/2011 06:32:28 PM 428 Views
28,300 words. Great Lord of Chaos - 21/08/2011 05:52:10 PM 473 Views
Hmm Camilla - 21/08/2011 06:07:36 PM 518 Views
I got 35700, but I was perhaps too generous in ticking boxes. Legolas - 21/08/2011 07:49:24 PM 584 Views
The wife had the same reaction to "lots", "somewhat" and "not much". Joel - 21/08/2011 10:15:05 PM 546 Views
Yeah, she would. Legolas - 21/08/2011 10:54:20 PM 490 Views
That makes sense. Joel - 22/08/2011 03:49:18 PM 550 Views
I'm going to hope I misinterpreted that, but... Legolas - 22/08/2011 07:24:04 PM 467 Views
Nah, you got it, and I didn't. Joel - 22/08/2011 08:27:33 PM 525 Views
37700 *NM* Stephen - 21/08/2011 08:52:29 PM 184 Views
Bah, 35,000 *NM* beetnemesis - 21/08/2011 10:02:43 PM 207 Views
I'm only slightly above average nossy - 22/08/2011 04:07:02 AM 454 Views
39,000. It seemed pretty heavy on the Latin derivations. *NM* Ghavrel - 22/08/2011 04:48:23 AM 214 Views
28,800 Macharius - 22/08/2011 01:43:36 PM 456 Views
Neat link, It seems I'm around 25600. Made me want to get my dictinary out... *NM* Nolan - 22/08/2011 03:43:24 PM 232 Views
Trollop! Trollop was on the list! Low- 22,800. *NM* Avendesora - 22/08/2011 08:43:21 PM 199 Views
I like the rice one from years ago. Still, I so kicked ass that I won't post... Vodalus - 23/08/2011 04:57:58 AM 470 Views
37000... It's interesting how it makes you remember how you know some of the harder words Isaac - 23/08/2011 12:16:17 PM 455 Views
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