A baloo is a bear

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Seeing Baloo’s screen name takes me back to school days and the CTBS test. We took this test every year. And every year, the five sample word definitions were the same.

A baloo is a bear. To wuzzle is to mix. A younker is a young man. The other two I don’t remember. Maybe they didn’t stick out because they were words I felt likely to use at some point.

Seeing those same five words year after year because quite comical for me.

Did anybody else take this test? And do you remember the other two sample words?

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CTBS = Children’s Torture Before Summer - oh how my daughter hated those tests!!

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**AHHHHH!!![/b}

<runs screaming into the hills as his entire fourth grade year and the horrible terrible ugliness that was the CTBS test passes before his eyes>

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I’m an idiot… That’s the second time I’ve done that:
“[/b}”
God… I’m a moron.
<stupid british accent> More poison mother…?!.. I mean… Tea? Duh… My brain hurts.

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I meant to say something about that sometime…

Every time I see that screen name, I think

A “baloo” is a bear.
“Alate” means to have wings.
A “teapoy” is a three-legged table.

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Thank you!!! I, too, took this test, and these definitions stuck in my head. Recently I tried to remember what it was that meant “to mix,” and couldn’t. It was driving me crazy at the time, and no one else I was with had taken this test!

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Mercifully, I’ve managed to kill the brain cells that store this particular memory.

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Yup, I remember those tests too. such a horrid way to torture small children. I guess it was just an early introduction into the necessity of carrying a #2 pencil and spare scantron everywhere.

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It seems that my threadkilling powers ar ein full effect today…this is the second thread that I’ve posted to where no one has seen fit to respond after me!
I am getting closer and closer to particlewill-ness everyday.

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isn’t sculch, junk???

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I remember all those. Also, an agar (sp?) is a mound.

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I thought it was “alute” or “ayute” that meant to grow wings?

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hey! I remember that test, I loved it because it was relatively easy and we got graham crackers and juice. I say the subject and though this was about the jungle book sniffle Baloo was the kewlest

Kitty

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YES, YES, A THOUSAND TIMES YES!!! SCULCH IS JUNK!!!

That just leaves one more word from that classic set of five test words. Then my life will be complete.

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but adding up the words so far, comes to 6. Are you sure that you all sat the same test?

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Some of the words mentioned aren’t on the list of test words that I remember. Baloo, wuzzle, younker and sculch are.

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I remember them as:

A Baloo is a bear
Wuzzle means to mix
Alate means to have wings
A Younker is a young man
Sculch is junk

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Do you think their meaning has changed in the 12 years since this thread was last used?

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Could someone give more details to those of us too old to have participated? “Baloo” is the bear in Jungle Book, I can see “Alate” coming from etymology and “Younker” as phonetic equivalent of German, but don’t understand “wuzzle” and “sculch”
How were these used? Did they define these words at the start and have you use them? Were they part of some kind of analogies test, or something?

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They would define the words first, then move on to another part of the test, and finally come back to this section with questions such as “Which word means to have wings?”