Thanks, that does make me feel a little better, though I’m not sure honesty and humility are worth as much as knowing at least one definition of “uxoricide.” 
35,200 - Native Speaker from the US.
Similar to others, if a word felt familiar but I could not articulate a specific definition in my own words, I didn’t select it (ie, I only counted active vocabulary).
I took a sparge at this vibrassae of hypnopompic chivvy, and achieved the mawkish, yet adumbrately captious score of 33,800.
- Where was the ‘Select All’ button? (Then deselect those few I don’t know.)
38,800. I’m 66 years old and when to college 40 years ago. I don’t remember my SAT scores, but I do remember they were above average.
Also a fan of fantasy, but also science, not science fiction.
31,600 and an English Lit degree, but I know my vocabulary isn’t the best. I answered as honestly as I could and for words I wasn’t 100% sure of (but that I knew I recognized), I took a guess, looked it up, and if I was wrong, left it blank.
37,100
44 yo
native speaker
communications degree
voracious reader
That word (no, I’m not going to spoil it) specifically means the location of the Last Supper. While it’s easy to see how you would know it had something to do with dinner, how did you know it had that specific meaning? There were a lot of words I might have been able to guess by the roots, but I did not click because I did not know for sure.
My score was 33,900. Native speaker, scored 800 on my verbal SAT way back when.
I’m deducting a thousand points from both your scores. You’ve scored poorly on the reading comprehension portion.
Yes, I understand the difference between a manacle and a monocle. My point was that you don’t have to know the difference for this test.
A person who knows a manacle is a restraint gets the same score as a person who thinks a manacle is an eyepiece or a person who thinks a manacle is a kind of shellfish. Only one of these three people has the right answer but all three of them are giving themselves full credit for having the right answer.
This test doesn’t show if you have a good vocabulary. It just shows if you believe you have a good vocabulary.
Yeah this test, much like life, rewards overconfident nitwits.
I know 32,200 words.
American, native English speaker.
41,900
Native English speaker, avid reader of fantasy in my youth.
42,200
Native English speaker, PhD in Linguistics (Human-Machine Communication)
Avid reader of nonfiction and fiction.
So, there were a handful of words that I really have never seen before.
Checked my guess on two of them and one of those guesses was the ‘Last Supper’ reference that I got correct because I grew up as a church going nerd who read a lot of stuff from the church library.
Can’t see myself using many of the words I didn’t know, but when I encounter unknown words then my handy Internet connection is right there to edify me.
Thanks for the fun, Indian!
And a deduction of 1000 points from you for not noticing that bulge in FoieGrasIsEvil’s cheek.
Speaking of dreams- if a psychopomp is a being that guides a spirit to the afterlife, I’m guessing a hypnopomp is someone or something who shows you something meaningful in a dream?
ETA: 34, 600
try this one: Word Dynamo You have to actually select the right answer. According to this website , I have a vocabulary of 50,000+
43600, female, primary language english, USAian.
That is a stupid test.
Can ya guess if I scored in the range I expected to?
I got 50,089 on that one (at the college level).
- American English is my only language.