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.
36,000. Native Mercan talker. Went conservative on words I wasn’t sure about.
32,4000 and not a native speaker. Good enough for me!
38k, I’m a native English speaker. A lot of those words are antique.
33,700, native English speaker and thank god they didn’t ask me to pronounce them as many I’ve never heard only read.
40,900
Degree in Eng Lit. Writer of fiction and nonfiction, editor. Native English speaker.
Yeah, I had Neil Gaiman to thank for knowing that one.
33,900. Native English speaker from USA. I mostly didn’t check any that I wasn’t pretty sure of.
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.
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
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!
34,000 native speaker. I’m 53 yrs old.
Is that a superfluous zero, or a misplaced comma…? (:eek: if the latter! :p)
28,000, and a native speaker.
You might want to speak to me slowly. Pictures would help.
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.
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?
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.
Bet you’ll do a lot better if you take the test again.
41,400 native USA BUT grew up in hillbilly country so most is after I left home at 18.
MS degree
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.