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