English Words Quiz - Do You Know The Meaning Of These Words?
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98/100 Reading novels is a good way to improve one's vocabulary
What? People still read?! (Shocking how many homes have no-zero-books other than a copy of the Christian Bible (or Tanakh, Koran, Baghavad Gita, Tripitaka, Guru Granth Sahib, Tao te Ching, Tattvartha Sutra, etc.) which may or may not be read; plus transient kiddie books if very young children are part of the family. Otherwise… reading? Why! TV does it all for you, and you don’t even have to be conscious. Or alive. Well, technically…
having dementia is a good way to forget pretty much all you've learned. ask me how i know, lol.
My mother had Alzheimer’s dementia, and it’s no joke. If you truly have Alzheimer’s, I’m sorry. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. The worst part for the person who has it is when they KNOW they can’t remember much of anything anymore, and the worst part for loved ones is when they don’t know who you are anymore.
I agree. Victorian literature is a great way to learn a lot of interesting words.
But it's NOT a good way to learn to SPEAK.
The pronunciations are still at the WHIM of the reader.
The number of mispronunciations becomes irritating.
AMEN to that!
Agree 100%; it detracts from the experience plus these quizzes are way too long…
Yep, didn’t get past question 2.
Do keep in mind that British and American pronunciations often vary.
Agreed
95 out of 100. I agree with comments about mispronunciation of words.
Behoove is a verb, not a noun. The definition should have been worded differently. There were many of these definitions, correct and incorrect, which did not exactly express the meaning of the word, as they represented the wrong part of speech...nouns, verbs, adjectives.... Good quiz, though, as it was really challenging - for once! So many of these so-called difficult quizzes could be answered by an intelligent ten-year-old! I think I scored 98/100.
Speak for yourself
Due to a Boarding School Education this was NOT difficult. Being well read is a boon these days. UBIQUE
Verb tense was a recurring problem. In some cases the definitions used appeared to be (to me, at least) like tertiary choices at best. My gut feeling is you don’t want to make a vocabulary quiz harder by making the multiple choice definitions less clear-chose better words if increased difficulty is your goal. And yes, the mispronunciations were amusing if distracting at first but the novelty quickly wore thin. Numbers 79 & 80 (I believe) had the same word on my quiz-but different definitions. Anyone else?
All that said & problems aside it was an effective quiz of a real (as in educated) word-set and it’s nice not to be relegated to the forgotten fringes for a change.
I doubt he came up with the definitions.
I kept looking for a verb, or noun, or adjective when there wasn't one. Good for this fellow for going to so much work though.
If people are interested at all in the etymology of words and meanings of prefixes and suffixes, this quiz becomes much easier. THE difference between high scores and low scores has commonality: those who care to have correct verbiage and those who don't.
Kudos for the high scores. I am proud that I got over 50% correct with a score of around 66%. I guess being isolated from people can make a difference and effect one's vocabulary. I'm working on getting out more, but people can be very annoying. I'll put reading more on my to do list.
66% Is not to be sniffed at. It's a fair score.
Your score is fine, and you should be proud. I can only speak for the U.S., but not many people read for pleasure anymore and functional illiteracy is rampant in many states. Be proud of your score, be very proud!
If you happen to know Latin or any of the romance languages you will know %50 of those words as simple common words .
Yes, some high school study of Latin was of help to me.
Probably because most of the highbrow, less well-known words derive from the conquest of England by the Romans and the French and the enshrinement of Latin and Greek as the languages of scholarship.
Debauch is pronounced "deBAWTCH"
lol - yes, that got to me as well lol
@@Lokisdottir1964 A lot, and I mean a lot of others too.
99%. But the word travesty cracks me up. When my son was 2 I served him breakfast one morning. He asked "What's that?" "That," I replied, "in an omelet.." "That's not an omelet. That is a travesty." 😂😂😂😂
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I never met your son, but he gets my approval for cheekiness!
@@CareyTisdal And stunning vocabulary development for a 2 year old!
He shows promise as a popular food critic!
@@jimrodarmel8512 OP said his son is 21. * edit * Due to OP's missing comma, I had thought he said 21 upon quick review. Then upon re-reading the entire sentence...
100% thanks to a superb Scottish education during the 1940s and 50s including 5 years at university. All free at a time when few people had cars or foreign holidays. Priorities have changed.
Me too, but south of the border. 👍
That fact that I achieved 94/100 with a Grade 8 Canadian education in the 1940s and 1950s says we don't learn everything in school.
Maybe also made fir an American audience judging by the words candor and clamor
100/100. Ironically, the bonus means using polysyllabic words. 🇬🇧👍
Correct, but that's the opposite of irony. You're looking for "appropriately" or "coincidentally".
Did ok for a dyslexic stroke survivor
Wauw we hope your are fine ❤️
Some of these I cannot imagine how someone would NOT know.
Become an RN, and see for yourself how many illiterate and functionally illiterate people are out there. We had to write teaching materials and instructions for patients at approximately a fourth grade level. Being well read and/or well educated is a priceless gift.
@@megnotes7908 There's a reason why the TV show "Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader" was popular - the answer, all too often, was "No". But, I agree, SOME of these are words that everyone should know.
Yes, but some were very rare.
@@elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633 Yes, some were. Some are so common it's impossible to believe any native speaker would not know.
80 out of 100, not great, but not too bad.
He confuses parts of speech, defining adjectives as nouns and so forth.
94/100...
Pronouncing words correctly is vital...
I note others have commented on certain words...
I thought a behoove was a home for bamboozles
I scored 94 out of 100, but I take exception to several of your definitions; for example "Quixotic" that can mean both oddly intended (like Don Quixote himself) or without commonly recognized purpose, just to name one. Thanks for this quiz: well done!
I thought this also
quixotic means high ideals but impractical
I am from Finland not academic and I got 10% right.
Wauw 🤩
Well done.
Wish I could do as well in Finnish!
Watching from Ireland
98, but I think one of those words has multiple meanings. So perhaps I should have credit for 99
I got 80/100. A "B-" if I was still teaching. Not bad, and I enjoyed the quiz!
I am older and, when I went to school, vocabulary was taught. I learned these words many years ago in school.
This was like grade school stuff in the 50s
Sesquipedalian: a frequent use of really long words. Got 96/100. Voracious reader.
I didn't hunt for the definition, so I think it means a creature having 60 feet? Centipede?🤔
@@jerushamaxwell281No. Long word.
This is not fair for me because I am French born and a Greek and Latin teacher. That makes right answers easier for me.
Yup. I made educated guesses on quite a few and got them right because I’m obsessed with root words. 😊
If you ask me, the best starting point for languages in general is Romanian. I got 95%
@@havaoren2468 Latin
No, it is much better than Latin, because it also gives you a foothold in slavic roots.
Can’t believe I made it all the way through. I got 91.
Wauw good job 👏🏻
100/100 although I was almost thrown when you asked about "obdurate" twice in a row. I guess you could argue for "stolid" although it means more like having or revealing little emotion. "Obdurate" implies more cussedness and stubbornness rather than mere impassivity. I picked "stolid" simply because it was the least wrong answer.
Sesquipedalian: prone to using excessively long words. Literally, "a foot and a half long."
Excellent quiz. I got 96, and I'm proud of my score. A few of these words were pretty obscure.
97/100. But then, I was always a nerd.
Worked on the quiz late at night! However, I scored 94/100!
96%. I got my library card at age 4 and was allowed full run of the library (library pet). Started reading Shakespeare at age 6. I’ve been lazy recently watching You Tube lately so I took up learning hieroglyphics, latin, and Mayan so keep my old brain active.
95. Reading historical narratives plus knowing prefixes helped.
I think I scored 90.
Stopped after 20 with 100% accuracy.
88/100. Not bad for a non-native speaker.
Awesome!
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99/100
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93/100. I didn't expect the three choices for each, which made it easier to recognize which to eliminate. Am bookmarking, thanks!
88/100 two of which I thought had a completely different answer than any of those given as a choice.
Great score 👏🏻
missed seven. i was feeling really proud of myself, until i read all these comments. y'all are bangers! bravo!
I got 99 right: never heard of 'sonder' before. I had to guess one and chose the best fit for many of the others. I knew the bonus word meaning same as everyone else below but was not aware of its derivation even though I knew the 'sesqui' prefix means to the three-halves.
I've never heard of sonder either or eunoia
I did pretty well 88 out of 100😊
Me too😊
Had great pleasure partaking in this quiz and humbly said only managed 96, however it was an interedting challenge. Thanks.
I appreciate this channel! I love words!!
That was fun! I missed 10 correct words. Thank You.
Never heard of the bonus word. Misprounciations grated on the ears, but apart from that, not a bad quiz. 95/101
Really a great quiz - make me think!
97/100. Sesquipedalian = verbose, long-winded.
Only had time for the first ones. 10 out of 10. Though I only got eunoia because I recognized the Greek prefix eu-.
Exactly...I did Latin, and it has stood me in good stead in learning other Indo-European languages.
Same for me (eunoia) , but I figured out many of the words because I speak some romance languages, plus reading a lot since my childhood.
Me too.
Thanks again for sharing
Thanks for playing 🙏🏻
It’s a person who likes to use long words. I missed 4. Loved this quiz.Thank you.
90 out of 100
96 right. I love reading. Some if the definitions don't do the word justice
95/100, considering I am a factory/warehouse worker I think I did okay. Some of those words can't be used in regular speech as most people wouldn't have a clue what they meant. Most people would have a better reading vocabulary than spoken.
95/100 Bonus = Long words of many syllables.
100/100 Basic indeed!
What a coincidence! I was nibbling some feta cheese when "fetter" came up!
I need to add alot of these to my vocabulary
I enjoyed this, thank you. Did pretty well at 89 correct. Learned some new words. No idea what that bonus word means 😂
Fun - Thanks :O), g
86 points, so it well challenged me and I enjoyed it.
The quiz might be more difficult if they would make the three possible answers all verbs or adjectives or nouns.
Great fun! Only missed by 23. Not bad 😊
Good job 👏🏻
98 out of 100 here!
94 correct! In many cases Thanks to Gilbert & Sullivan and in other cases thanks to my lawyer daughter. And especially thanks to being bilingual.
"Doldrums" was a nautical term from the days of sail. No wind in your sails? You are in the doldrums.
As a foreigner 65 is not bad. :)
93/100. I learned a few things. Excellent test. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Nos 5, 84 - was distracted and misheard this one, embarrassed given it was so easy,
i got 5 wrong, but i love the way he says "behoove".
97/100 Read and ye will learn :) But then I am ancient at 76 years young :)
I only had time to do 15 questions, so far I got 14 right.
100% Fairly easy.
Great quiz! I missed 4 of these but was surprised that I got the rest. Thanks for doing this!
89% Quite proud of "meself"! Bonus word? Not a clue, thought it had something to do with thread or hair!!
92, I need to brush up on my vocabulary.
Missed 5 and the last one. 82 years old
98/100
Bonus .. SESQUIPEDALIAN .. It's a long word !!
Enjoyed this! 99 out of 100! But, the entire time I was looking forward to you telling us HOW you selected these particular words; what is the significance of these 100 words relating to learning level?
Q.32 I thought travesty is a false representation of something, not a false interprétation..
For example: A travesty of justice.
Why have you put an acute accent on first 'e' in the word interpretation?
@@user-ee6oq8uv6d typo (second e)
I got the first 10 correct and decided to retire on my perfect record. 100 questions is more than I have the patience for. Maybe consider shorter quizzes, say on the order of 30 questions.
I missed six. I'll gladly take it! 😊
89 thank you. see yuo soon
93 /100 correct No clue on the bonus question. Not the best but respectable.
Thanks again
Thank you 🙏🏻
I got 91/100.
Seven I got wrong were words I have never actually seen or heard before.
Two were words I realize now were being used wrong everytime I heard them:
Travesty always incorrectly used to mean a complete collapse or utter failure;
Enervate -- rather than innervate -- used to mean the exact 'opposite' of draining or weakening someone of vitality.
I attribute this possibly to my hearing it pronounced wrong [ folks being lazy with the short I and E ]. Tho admittedly it is actually only a relatively few times I have heard it used as most speakers will generally try to find some other less misinterpretable word.
85%, not bad for a foreign speaker I think
Question 67, the wrong definition for clamour was given, it doesn't mean a "loud complaint about something or a demand for something", the word means "a loud and confusing din" for example people shouting all at the same time, an example of which is the noise at a football match.
It does mean demand for sth. Pple clamouring for food.
Love these. I got 80. Hurray to me! Lol
80 is passing :)
90. No idea about sesquidelian and I take umbrage that I screwed up 10!
86
I was today years old when I found that I completely misunderstood "enervate / enervation"
Only 83% for me and that included a couple of guesses, so more like 80% to be honest.
Good job 👏🏻
95/100
97/100 I should have concentrated .. polysyllabic words.
90/100
My score was 96%.!
Missed 4
99/100
I got 97. Long word
After getting all of the first 10 questions correct, I think I'm good to stop here with confidence that I'd know most of these.