# Test your vocabulary. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 6, 2012, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-vocabulary/633838 "2012-09-06T09:48:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-vocabulary/633838/21 "2012-09-06T14:43:56Z")
Native speaker: 36,200. I’ve always been an avid reader, took two years of Latin in high school, and studied three other languages in my life. Also, my MLAT scores have always been extremely high, if that has any correlation. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-vocabulary/633838/22 "2012-09-06T14:48:50Z")
36,000. Native Mercan talker. Went conservative on words I wasn’t sure about. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-vocabulary/633838/23 "2012-09-06T14:50:21Z")
32,4000 and not a native speaker. Good enough for me! ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-vocabulary/633838/24 "2012-09-06T14:52:16Z")
38k, I’m a native English speaker. A lot of those words are antique. ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-vocabulary/633838/25 "2012-09-06T15:01:50Z")
33,700, native English speaker and thank god they didn’t ask me to pronounce them as many I’ve never heard only read. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-vocabulary/633838/26 "2012-09-06T15:03:07Z")
40,900 Degree in Eng Lit. Writer of fiction and nonfiction, editor. Native English speaker. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-vocabulary/633838/27 "2012-09-06T15:24:11Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > What if I told you that the gods of dreams in greek mythology are called Oneiroi? Yeah, I had Neil Gaiman to thank for knowing that one. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-vocabulary/633838/28 "2012-09-06T15:37:29Z")
33,900. Native English speaker from USA. I mostly didn’t check any that I wasn’t pretty sure of. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-vocabulary/633838/29 "2012-09-06T15:37:40Z")
36,000. I looked up words as I went. There were a couple I could vaguely guess (oneiromancy - ‘well, it’s some sort of divination’) that I didn’t count as knowing. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-vocabulary/633838/30 "2012-09-06T15:37:41Z")
34,100, native speaker but do not speak the language on a daily basis (I do my day-to-day living in Hebrew.) ETA: at almost 49 YO, my expected vocabulary is ~31,500, so I’m happy 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-vocabulary/633838/31 "2012-09-06T15:42:45Z")
35,100, native speaker, holder of a degree in English, 43 years old. Some of those words on the second page on the far right were…pretty obscure. I had seen some of them before but could not come up with a definition in my mind for them. Some pretty bizarre words in there! ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-vocabulary/633838/32 "2012-09-06T15:44:07Z")
34,000 native speaker. I’m 53 yrs old. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-vocabulary/633838/33 "2012-09-06T15:45:11Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > 32,4000 and not a native speaker. Good enough for me! Is that a superfluous zero, or a misplaced comma…? (:eek: if the latter! :p) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-vocabulary/633838/34 "2012-09-06T15:53:14Z")
28,000, and a native speaker. You might want to speak to me slowly. Pictures would help. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-vocabulary/633838/35 "2012-09-06T15:58:43Z")
> [@CairoCarol](#): > > One possible flaw in the test … what if I THINK I know the definition, but I’m wrong? Exactly. Since it doesn’t actually “test” vocabulary, I don’t see how the score tells you much of anything. It rewards both the dishonest and the overly sure of themselves. Unsurprisingly, I scored a perfect 45,000. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-vocabulary/633838/36 "2012-09-06T16:12:31Z")
37,900 A couple, like **uxoricide** , I did not know in the sense of being familiar with them, but could easily work out the meaning from my (fairly limited) knowledge of Latin. I think it is fair to count that. There were a several I did _not_ count but where I have a vagueish idea of what they mean. 60 male, native speaker. I used to read a lot of fiction for most of my life, but I don’t very much now, thanks both to the internet and the amount of non-fiction I read. I said I do read a lot of fiction, but I felt a bit guilty. Why did it want to know my _month_ of birth? ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-vocabulary/633838/37 "2012-09-06T16:26:34Z")
> [@h.sapiens](#): > > 33,900. Native English speaker from USA. Same. Only HS education, but I read. A Lot. I did look up a couple words that I thought I knew the definition of but found that I didn’t, so I left them unchecked. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-vocabulary/633838/38 "2012-09-06T16:36:38Z")
> [@BetsQ](#): > > 35,700. Native speaker. I’m now going to spend 20 minutes looking up all of the words I didn’t know. Bet you’ll do a lot better if you take the test again. ---
**Author:** ![Lanzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Lanzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lanzy)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-vocabulary/633838/39 "2012-09-06T16:43:17Z")
41,400 native USA BUT grew up in hillbilly country so most is after I left home at 18. MS degree ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-vocabulary/633838/40 "2012-09-06T16:44:26Z")
36,500 native speaker. I tried to be really good about not checking words if I wasn’t sure that I could provide a definition. There were some words I felt like I could have figured out from the root, but I didn’t check those. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-vocabulary/633838.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-your-vocabulary/633838.md?page=3)