I got ten out of ten from the OP also. 
OK, I’m pretty sure that my students (juniors) would know most, if not all, of those words. They do have a vocabulary-enrichment-type book that they use, and more than half of those words are in there. The rest–come on. Does any high school graduate really not know “plagiarize” or “irony”? I know the answer, but still…
And you don’t need to have ever used any of the words for them to be useful (though you likely will use them on occasion). If you come across them in your reading, you’ll know what is being said.
Woo! I knew all ten. (But then it’s been two decades since I graduated from high school.) I’m going to check and see if the teenager knows these.
8 out of ten. I did not know what the words “gerrymander” or “gauche” were.
1A; 2A; 3A; 4B; 5C; 6C; 7B; 8C; 9C; 10A
I got all 10 right, but did have to take a guess on abstemious.
Vocab words I remember learning in college-prep English:
Bucolic
Treacle
Bellicose
Precipice
Facade
Demur
Aquline
Denouement
Onomatopoeia
Loquacious
Abstemious should be known, if for no other reason, then because it’s one of those few words that uses all 5 vowels, in order, once and only once. Everyone should know words like that.
Oh, and 10 for 10.
10 for 10, and I’m an incoming sophomore.
10 for 10. It was kind of easy though. I didn’t know the actual definitions of filibuster and gerrymander, but just knowing that they had to do with politics made it easy to pick out the right answer.
Graduated HS one year ago.
I got 10 for 10. Not bad for being out 19 years.
10 out of 10, three years out of high school. But I admit that I pretty much guessed on “abstemious”. Definitions B and C were sufficiently similar that I figured neither could be correct.
10 for 10: From which it may be postulated that I am preternaturally erudite.
I’m in grade nine, forgot to mention that. I probably shoulda been more logically minded when doing it- Why would I need to know a word that’s definition is the color of the liver?
10 for 10. And I can name another word that uses all five vowels in order.
Spoiler:
facetious
Sorry !!! I was trying to figure out how to do the spoiler box and hit submit instead of preview. (Am now covered in horrible newbie shame!)
No problem, Aholibah. Cecil mentioned a bunch of those words in a column anyway.
It could be a life saver.
“Does this liver look gauche to you?”
“No.”
“I’d better throw it out then.”
It’s been less than a month since my high school graduation and a knew just about 3 or 4 words. But I got all of them right. That seems to be the huge problem with multiple choice tests, you don’t really have to know the answers to correctly answer the question. Well, i guess that’s a good thing.
Got all ten! Yay me!
(Snug does the Snoopy dance)
Half of those words are fairly worthless. Any explanation for why they’re so damn handy?
Mrs. Gordon talks nonstop. She doesn’t have time to loquacious going.